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Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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My ADS-B station automatically takes a screenshot of the tar1090 interface whenever it detects an interesting airplane. Today's highlight is Boeing 747-4H6(LCF) Dreamlifter (reg. N718BA).
My humble Fujitsu Futro S720 running Debian makes a decent home server. But it has one weakness: the power button is too easy to press by accident, which shuts down the machine. I know that, because I've done it several times. Not the...
I woke up this morning only to discover that an Eastern Boeing 767-336(ER) (reg. N700KW) was about to land in NUE. It is a very rare guest in our neck of the woods, but there was no way I could make to the airport to capture it. :-(
Despite all the precautions taken during our trip to Helsinki, we managed to catch a cold. As a result, I spent last week indoors. So as the weekend approached, I was hoping that something interesting would show up in NUE, giving me a...
Here's a problem: I need to modify content of a specific EXIF tag in RAW files, and I want to use exiv2 for that. Oh, I need to do that on macOS. Since Exiv2 is available in Brew, installing it on macOS is a matter of running the brew...
Recently, I rediscovered Unison. I was also pleased to learn that the tool is available on macOS as a native app. It works well, except one minor limitation: you can create profiles, but you cannot delete or edit them in the app. As I'm...
No so long ago, I added notes to Tinble. Already then, I knew I wanted something a little bit more sophisticated. Lo and behold, I stumbled on a Admonitions in CSS article describing pretty much exactly what I had in mind. Better still,...
I wish I came up with this clever pun, but Helsinki airport beat me to it.
An HDMI capture card and an HDMI cable is all you need to stream the video output of a camera to a Linux machine running the VLC media player. This can come in useful when you need to take screenshots of the camera's interface or record...
Bad news: installing a network tool broke my internet connection, because the damn thing made changes to the /etc/resolv.conf file. Good news: after some frantic research, the following commands fixed the issue.
dmpop.xyz is one-year old today. I set it up on a whim to serve as my journal. Surprisingly, the habit of documenting my coding and photography exploits stuck, so here I am, writing a celebratory speech. It's going to be a short one....
Tinble's appearance is now controlled by the --main-color variable in the styles.css file. But what does this mean? It means that you can change the color of all main elements (title, menus, buttons, and cards) by modifying the default...
I've tweaked the Tinble logo yet again for no reason whatsoever.
Say, you want to use a USB storage device with your Linux home server. All you have to do is to run the mount /dev/sdbX /mount/point/ command as root to mount the device (sdbX, in this case) in the specified mount point. Easy, but hardly...
> One industry that hasn't yet gone far through this cycle is large commercial aircraft (i.e: jetliners), which remains dominated by Boeing and Airbus, even within China. But this isn't for lack of trying. China has been attempting to...