Solved: netcat (nc) doesn’t terminate at end of transmission

Introduction I often use netcat to transmit chunks of data between two Linux machines. I usually go something like $ pv backup-image.iso | nc -l 1234 on one machine, and then maybe # nc 10.1.2.3 1234 > /dev/sdb1 This is an example for using another machine to write data into a USB disk-on-key, because writing [...]

Synplify Pro on Linux Mint 18.1: The cheat sheet

Introduction I needed to run Synplify Pro for a short trial period on my Fedora 12 machine (yup, it’s 2018, and still). And I have a full Mint 18.1 as a chroot jail on that machine for installing contemporary software. So these are my notes on the go. Consider everything below as run om Mint [...]