Finally!!!! I have been meaning to write this post and translate my original weather station into C++. It has taken me a lot longer than I thought, mainly due to many other distractions such as house renovations. Introduction First things…
Background Compiling C/C++ code on the raspberry pi is very slow, I have some code I am writing that compiles in less than 5 seconds on the laptop but can take 30 minutes on the raspberry pi. This is pretty…
A ramble of why….. …..i want to change the background colour of CherryTree’s codeblocks. I use Linux as my OS of choice and have for many years. One thing that has been missing is a really good all round note…
Disclaimer: I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND USING THIS CODE TO CIRCUMVENT FIREWALLS ETC AT YOUR PLACE OF WORK. THE SAMPLE CODE ON BLOG.MONOTOK.ORG IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS…
The Code: I decided to write a quick bit of code to reinforce my understanding of char pointers in C; especially Char** as I recently confused myself. Firstly lets get straight to the code as it is the best way…
Introduction This post will be extensive so will be separated into 3 parts to make it easier to write and read. I have spent the last couple of months developing a weather station; both for the fun of it and…
I have started re-learning C using the “C Head First Book” after doing it at university a number of years ago and decided to purchase an Ardunio (Well Genunio as I am not in the USA). The first lab in…
LinConnect, Great way for Android Notifications to appear in Gnome I have recently discovered a new application which sends notifications to the Linux notification system via LibNotify. It is beautifully simple and quite useful, incoming calls etc are all sent…
This post will show you how to install Kolab mail server on ubuntu 14.04, in this example on a DigitalOcean VPS. Kolab’s recipient policy will be removed because I do not need guaranteed unique email addresses, secondary alias addresses setup…
One of my university modules tasked me with developing a Caesar cipher decryption tool. The tool had to be able to decrypt any encrypted text without knowing the offset used to encrypt the text. The code is surprisingly short and…
