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The webp command line tool from Google makes it quite simple to convert images to the webp format from the command line. It can convert JPG, PNG, and TIFF images to WebP. Not sure what webp is? Read more about webp on Wikipedia. If you don’t have Docker installed on your system already, go ahead and install it now. Spin up a Debian Bookworm docker container and mount the directory with your images to the container. Read more...

A quick reference for OpenWRT Installation Prepare Debian bootable USB Connect your Debian USB and boot Download OpenWRT image onto the Debian USB Flash the SSD drive with the OpenWRT image Resize the OpenWRT partition Create an additional partition Upgrade Prepare a bootable Debian USB You can use another distro if you’d like. I use Debian as a personal perference and also because it’s relatively quick to create a live USB. Read more...

Creating an Ubuntu VirtualBox and installing Docker. Vagrantfile Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64" config.vm.define "docker-1" do |node| node.vm.hostname = "docker-1" config.vm.box_check_update = false config.vm.network "public_network" config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb| vb.name = "docker-1" vb.memory = "2048" vb.cpus = "2" end node.vm.provision "install-docker", type: "shell", :path => "ubuntu/install-docker-2.sh" end end install-docker-2.sh cd /tmp curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh sh /tmp/get-docker.sh vagrant up Wait for the virtual machines to get created and started. Read more...

I wanted to try building my own Vagrant base box, I decided to use one of the chef bento templates for ease. It was moving along nicely, downloaded the ISO, verified the checksum and suddenly this error appears. VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine packer Not quite sure where to start I decided to do a quick Google, read some posts about VirtualBox modules. I was quite sure that wasn’t my issue. Read more...