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Go Concurrency Benchmarking on a Raspberry Pi
In hindsight, no one claimed that a Raspberry Pi of any model was a powerhouse machine. However, I had thoughts about how to benchmark computing power after leaving Dreamhost and noticing that even tar and gzipping my WordPress installs performed like an ancient machine despite the processor statistics. That made me think about a raw…
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Using an Arduino to keep a Seiki 4K Display On
I love my Seiki 4k Display for writing code on my Mac. The one downside is that it times out and goes to sleep after 2 or 4 hours of inactivity (from the remote, not the screen). I decided to fix this problem in a somewhat complicated way: With an Arduino Uno that I already…
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What should I do with this existing desktop?
I have a mostly custom built desktop, and want to replace it with adequately current hardware, but no real plans for gaming. The IDE Hard Drives are going out. On the existing desktop: Windows 2000 is installed, but I rarely boot to it. Ubuntu 9.04 is installed. I have a SATA 250 GB drive that…