Lately I am trying to divide my spare time evently between my personal life and self-development. Given the fact that there is a lot going on lately with my career, it appears that there is not much to share.

Somehow I've managed to write a kernel module that dirves a servo, hooked it up with a mouse and IGEPv2 board, and here is what I got:

I've been really keen on getting into new Canonical's cloud. Maybe my expectations were too bloated up, but honestly I can find only one pro at the moment: it's idea.

It's been fifth time I do it in the last month, so here goes a little extract of what I've learned lately. This tutorial is gonna show you how to install the latest version of eclipse under Ubuntu- not the one available from the repository via apt-get utility, as it is often outdated, which I don't like. If you're ok with not using the latest version available- just install it with synaptic or apt-get.

• Download appropriate tar.gz from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ of whatever shape and flavour you like (I am using C/C++)

Each time I have to install a new nfs for my IGEP I end up with reading bzip2/bunzip2 or tar manual to get it right. I hope it's gonna stay in my head for a while if I'll write it down here.

• How to extract a cpio archive (to your current directory)?

$ cpio -id < rootfs.cpio

• How to decompress tar file (to your current directory)?

$ tar -xf rootfs.tar

• How to decompress tar.bz2 file (to your current directory)?

$ tar -xjf rootfs.tar.bz2
You don't have to use bzip2, thanks to -j option.