Author - M0YOM

Easily Install Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi 2 from Windows 8

8th May 2015
M0YOM
Guides, Programming
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Having recently purchased a couple of Raspberry Pi 2’s to play with, I was intrigued to see what the recent Windows 10 IoT version was like running on it. Being able to run a windows platform on something like a Raspberry Pi would open up a lot of opportunities to put these great little computers to work.

I faithfully downloaded the image from Microsoft (you need to be registered to download it, but you can find details on how to do this on google pretty easily). Once downloaded I set about writing the image (in this case an FFU file) to an SD card. This is a fairly simple process using the DISM tool. This is where my problems started, when running the command to write the image to the SD card I would receive the error “The /applydrive option is not recognized in this context”. It seems that you can only use the Windows 10 version of DISM and I’m running Windows 8.1. Not having a spare machine to install Windows 10 Preview on I began the usual Google search to figure out how to install Windows 10 IoT on the Pi using windows 8.

There are a few guides out there, but none of them are that simple, so I figured I’d put together this simple guide to help anyone else in my position wanting to try the Raspberry Pi Windows 10 release if they only have an earlier version of windows.

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Scanning for Malware on cPanel

25th March 2015
M0YOM
Sys Admin
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I look after a number of cPanel servers and recently had a need to scan them for malware. After a bit of searching around I found Linux Malware Detect from R-fx Networks.

Malware Detect was very easy to install on CentOS (the flavour of linux I use for my cPanel servers). The installation process involved only a couple of lines in a terminal whilst logged in as root.

cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://www.rfxn.com/downloads/maldetect-current.tar.gz
tar -xzf maldetect-current.tar.gz
cd maldetect-*
sh ./install.sh
maldet --update-ver
maldet --update

Once installed you can easily start a scan by running

maldet -a /home

This will scan the whole home directory, alternatively for a more targeted scan

maldet -a /home?/?/public_html

Will only scan the public_html folders of each account on the server.

Scanning seemed to work quite well, however it was extremely slow. In order to correct this it is possible for Malware Detect to make use of the ClamAV scanning engine. Provided this is installed (which it should be!) Maldet will use this as it’s scanning engine and will improve the scan performance significantly. At least that’s how it’s supposed to work, however cPanel installs ClamAV into a different location from the one that Maldet expects. To correct this a link can be added so that Maldet can find the ClamAV scanning engine properly.

ln -s /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/clamscan /usr/bin/clamscan

 

FTDI – Serial Killer, Not quite

25th October 2014
M0YOM
Amateur Radio, Electronics, Guides
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Many of my fellow radio amateurs will be familiar with USB to Serial adaptors, the lack of RS-232 ports on modern computers mean they see plenty of use within the radio amateur community especially for CAT control of our Radio’s.

One of the most popular (and the one offering the best compatibility) is the FT232R chip from the scottish company FTDI. They have built a reputation for producing great USB UART IC’s with excellent compatibility and more importantly drivers that are included within windows. These devices are found in thousands of other devices from aurduino’s to 3D printers. Their popularity however means that there are a whole host of clones and couterfeit devices out there, most of which are indistiguishable from the real thing and it seems that FTDI have decided to do something about it by rendering these fakes inoperable.

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Major Website Update

24th October 2014
M0YOM
Off Topic
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I had been neglecting the site for far too long now and it was way overdue an update so as i’m sure you have already noticed it’s had a complete overhaul.

As well as a complete redesign of the site, all the content has been ported to a new CMS (Content Management System), I hope you like it.

If you spot anything not working or missing, hit me up on the contact page.

Oh, and i’ll be trying to post on here far more often (hopefully)