Cubieboard

I’ve always wanted my own Home Entertainment solution before I bought my Cubieboard. Now, after buying a Raspberry Pi, what I want came true. With some research and a weekend, I got it up and running perfect. What I have in my disposal for this to happen are: Cubieboard A10 with Cubian - NAS, nginx, CouchPotato, Transmission, Headphones and SickBeard Raspberry Pi B with Raspbmc USB Hard Drive - Attached to the Cubieboard OpenWRT Wifi Router - or any router you can manipulate DNS with Another Wifi Router - because the main router’s coverage is spotty upstairs, Raspberry Pi is attached to this router TV with HDMI (obviously) - spare HDMI input for the Raspberry Pi Cubieboard and Raspberry Pi are connected using LAN cables. I’m not too sure about the Wifi’s signal strength. ...

For the past month, I’ve been pleasantly hacking my Cubieboard to try out several different things. This time, I wanna know how performant Cubieboard is. Benchmarks are configured in such a way to replicate a real Web Application. Preparing Here are the specs for my Cubieboard: AllWinner A10 ARM Single Core CPU 1 GB DDR3 @ 480 MHz 5V / 2A = 10 Watts SATA HD - 5400 RPM Cubian r7 - http://cubian.org 2 GB Swapfile (SATA HD) US$ 49 I’ve written a tutorial on how to install Cubian to a SATA HD here. The main reason why I’m doing a SATA HD Install for this is to preserve my micro-SD’s lifetime. We’re gonna be compiling and doing I/O intensive tasks so it’s best to delegate off the micro-SD card. ...

Managed to get a temporary micro-SD Card lending from my wife and so a new episode with my Cubieboard starts. First off is to get the image writing to the micro-SD Card correctly. The problem is, I don’t have the SD Card adapter for the micro-SD Card. My Macbook has an SD Card reader but it’s useless without the adapter. So I rebooted my wife’s Galaxy S2 into the recovery ROM and mounted the micro-SD Card to my Macbook. ...

As always, an elegant and simple solution for a newbie. Elevate as root and do the following. $ echo "manual" | sudo tee -a /etc/init/lightdm.override

So after setting my Cubieboard for my liking, another thing I want is to be able to access it anywhere and anytime. The trouble is, the ISP I am with right now is blocking all incoming ports, needs a work around. After some browsing and also from past experiences, I feel PPTP is my best bet. Incredibly easy to implement from a client/server perspective. The challenge is to keep the tunnel open at all times. ...

Yesterday, my Cubieboard A10 board arrived, Yeay! I got it from Ebay for US$ 58. Long story short, I now have the most powerful remote control for 10 Watts. To top it up, I created a DIY case from the foam provided on the package. Installing Lubuntu into NAND I don’t have a micro-SD card handy right now so I scoured the Internet on how get Linux running in it without a micro-SD card. Turns out, I can install easily into the NAND provided. ...