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Today is February 14. Some think of it as flower grocer appreciation day, but most (and for better reasons) celebrate it as the international I ♥ Free Software day. Free and open source software makes it possible to fix problems and/or implement new features in software I use. I could write a lot of text why I think it is a good idea to support the open source community but I want you to form an opinion about this topic buy simply using open source software and support it. It does not mean you need to send in some patches… it starts with simple things like bug reports or user support.

In some rare cases I need to find the correct colors that can ‘work’ together. As I do not call me the graphical/designer guy I always use little helpers. http://colorschemedesigner.com

Sometimes if you are doing some fancy HTML5 development you wonder what jQuery selector would do the job. In such a case I can recommend the following little helper 🙂 http://codylindley.com/jqueryselectors/

Sometimes it is needed to add some vendor specific information’s like a version string to a generated coreboot rom. For this example we assume we want the area from 0x00 to 0x30 for such kind of data. The first idea is to use cbfstool. Thanks to some guys in the IRC channel it looks like the current build system does something like: cbfstool -o $$(( $(CONFIG_ROM_SIZE) - $(CONFIG_CBFS_SIZE) )) … ...

I am looking for a way to detect If a initramfs was used during boot. And after some reboots and reading of init script of initramfs-tools I found this solution. #!/bin/bash if [ -e /dev/.initramfs ]; then echo YES else echo NO fi This may not work under wheezy or any other working distribution. But that’s okay for now 🙂