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I recently got my music bug again, and with my recent trip to Australia was able to bring back my original Gameboy. Combining the two, I thought I’d check out what music-making capabilities the Gameboy had. The most popular software was “Little sound DJ” (https://www.littlesounddj.com/). I purchased the full version of that, and while I could run that on an emulator, I wanted to run it on the real deal. To do this, I purchased a Gameboy flashing cartridge, “Flash BOY” ( https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/223590080458). This came with few instructions however. I was able to plug it into my laptop’s USB and see that it displayed as a FTDI device, but would need drivers. I installed some from here: https://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm but after more googling for flashing software, found that this also provided some drivers: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gbcf/ ...

I set up a Raspberry Pi photo viewer at work to display photos from members of the photo club. Members were instructed to put their photos on a Google Drive location (accessible only within the company VPN) and then the viewer would sync down the photos at a predetermined schedule. To get access to Google Drive, I used rclone. To display I used ‘feh’, which was also used to put text indicating the name of the photo. ...

Here is how I install nodejs to get access to cool tools like “tldr” (a summarized version of the typical man pages) and “ungit” (an interface to Git to ease people into using it). Run these two commands to get nodejs: curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_9.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs then you can install ungit, tldr, whatever you want. sudo npm install -g tldr These commands work with Linux Mint 17 (or Ubuntu 14.04). ...

A few times I’ve switched from the default private networking (NAT with port forwarding) to public networking (bridged) in the Vagrantfile.  When switching *back* to private networking, I wasn’t able to SSH back into the machine (i.e, “vagrant up” will time out). Assuming you’re using a Linux Mint guest (or other Debian-based) OS, a fix for this is to open the /etc/network/interfaces file and remove anything in between the #VAGRANT BEGIN and #VAGRANT END section.  Next, run vagrant reload from the host OS to reload the guest with the updated network interface configuration. ...