Upgrade all python packages with pip
31
Jan
Would be a quite handy function if it would be implemented… As a workaround you can use pip freeze –local | grep -v ‘^\-e’ | cut -d = -f 1 | xargs -n1 pip install -U on the bash console.
Python pip ‘mysql’ package installation problems on Python 3
31
Jan
As I do have a python 2.7 project that is using the ‘mysql’ pip package I recently tried running it on a Python 3 system. As I thought I encountered some problems. Sidenote: ‘mysql’ is just a virtual package and … Read More »
Linux SSH public key autentication to secure access
5
Jan
Using simple username/password authentication is not the securest way to login into a system as these can easily be hacked/bruteforced/rainbow-tabled/etc. Therefore the private/public key authentication mechanism should be used for e.g. SSH access. By doing so a private and public … Read More »
RIOT OS and CoAP example
5
Apr
The last two posts showed how to use networking and to setup a border router configuration. To get a bit more productive the next thing is using one board as a CoAP server that responds to requests from the host … Read More »
Setup a RIOT OS 6LowPAN border router
5
Apr
After playing around with the gnrc_networking example in the last post the next step is to setup a border router. Border routers are the communication pieces in between a 6LowPAN network and normal LAN/WAN. Because normal computers/hardware don’t bring IEEE … Read More »
Hands-On RIOT OS and 6LowPAN
5
Apr
The quite new RIOT OS is getting bigger and feature richer every day. It was finally time to test it on my two CC2538DK boards and try everything out. Prerequisites: The needed prerequisites can of course vary based on your … Read More »