Mozilla Firefox security

Thursday, May 26, 2016 Post 433 words 3 mins read

Today’s web browsers (and Mozilla Firefox is included) leak a lot of information about the user, can run insecure code, are not sandboxed properly from the underlying filesystem, etc, so here are some tips (and settings) on how to improve your Firefox’s security while browsing. Type about:config in your browser’s address bar and click on the I’ll be careful, I promise! button on the next screen. Use the Search field to find the name of the key and double-click on the Value field to toggle the status to true/false.

LuaJIT on Tizen OS

Friday, Apr 29, 2016 Post 118 words 1 min read

LuaJIT is a Just-In-Time Compiler (JIT) for the Lua programming language. Lua is a powerful, dynamic and light-weight programming language. It may be embedded or used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language.

Favorite Video Games

Friday, Feb 5, 2016 Post 2069 words 10 mins read

A “small” and non-exhaustive list of my favorite video games ordered alphabetically.

Rating system: In order to implement a rating system I will additionally rate them 1/5.

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The page contains lots of images. Constantly updated (January, 2021).

Jenkins CI on Tizen OS

Saturday, Jan 30, 2016 Post 188 words 1 min read

In order to install Jenkins Continuous Integration server, you will need Java installed , and optionally Apache Ant and Maven . Download the latest RedHat rpm , don’t worry, the RedHat rpms are noarch so they will install on Tizen without any issues. Install the rpm.

From a ripe.net probe to openWRT router

Thursday, Jan 21, 2016 Post 584 words 3 mins read

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Keep in mind that tampering with the probes is a violation of the RIPE Atlas Service Terms and Conditions and I strongly suggest you use the devices in the way they were intended to use, as network monitoring probes.

Last year I’ve applied for a ripe.net Atlas probe that it’s supposed to monitor the health of the internet.

Tizen 2.3.1 u-boot settings and partition info

Saturday, Jan 16, 2016 Post 732 words 4 mins read

The boot loader is a small piece of software that is required to perform the basic hardware and peripheral initialisation and load the kernel to RAM. For the Tizen platform, the boot loader comes in two parts. The first part is the primary boot loader and the second part is the secondary boot loader. The primary boot loader is the Samsung proprietary boot loader and is also called s-boot. The secondary boot loader is the open source boot loader u-boot, which is customised further for the Tizen platform. Homepage