Journal of Timothy Kenno Handojo

Dynamic Grub Menu Entry

I needed a way for testing buildroot kernel. For this, I'd put my build on a flashdrive.

I started by preparing a flashdrive (I happen to have a spare 2 GB one) with a new MBR partition table and an ext2 filesystem. Then I installed grub on it.

# mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb1
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sys...

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Setting Up Mailbox for Contact Page

After moving this blog on VPS, I realized my contact page isn't working anymore. It used to be that I'd receive an email everytime someone submit. Then I realized that no mailing has been setup on this server.

It used to be that my shared hosting provides SMTP server, complete with cpanel to confi...

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Migrating to a VPS Server

To spice things up a bit, I've decided to move from shared hosting into a VPS. I managed to find a cheap VPS service and paid for half a year. The OS is Debian 12, of course.

Before I began, I installed all the necessary packages with

apt install certbot nginx-light php-fpm python3-certbot-ngi...

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Building a W530 with coreboot

While waiting for the parts to get shipped to me, I played with the BIOS flash, trying to get coreboot on it as I did with the X230.

Acquiring BIOS blobs

Like the X230, this one comes with two flash chips. The difference is that instead of positioned top & bottom, this one is left & right.

The...

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Gaming with Steam on Gentoo

I'll open this new year with some new topic.

Well, it's not exactly new, but I've never touched upon it here, so here we go...

I've been gaming with Steam on my Gentoo system.

As we may have known, Linux support on Steam keeps on improving day by day. Proton is such a godsend, as it allows W...

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