PHP one-liners on the CLI

After checking out a page called Perl one-liners and reading how you could execute Perl inline on the CLI, I decided to try and replicate some grep functionality using PHP one-liners for fun. Interestingly, PHP seems quite slow compared to … Continue reading

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Observations on HTML

In December of 2012 HTML5 became feature complete according to the W3C, “meaning businesses and developers have a stable target for implementation and planning.” They continued to describe HTML5 as, “the cornerstone of the Open Web Platform, a full programming … Continue reading

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Compiling TrueCrypt on Raspberry Pi

These steps were gleaned from the work completed by Reinhard Seiler. Other than the manual download and placement of the TrueCrypt source, the rest should be fairly hands off. So first, get the “TrueCrypt 7.1a Source.tar.gz” package from http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads2 and … Continue reading

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Jigging with Debian

I found a package manager for Debian that I’ve never heard of: Wajig. History: Motivations for Wajig If you’ve tried to remember all the different commands to get different information about different aspects of Debian package management and then used … Continue reading

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Apple and Foxconn

As I was pulling apart a Power Macintosh 9600/300 today I thought it would be interesting to post about this ribbon cable I found inside. According to Wikipedia these were originally introduced in 1997, so apparently Apple and Foxconn go … Continue reading

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Visualizing Motion

The programmability of the Raspberry Pi comes in handy when you want to change the behavior of a circuit without moving a single wire. In this case, I decided the data I was logging with my former motion detection script … Continue reading

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Responsive Design View in Firefox

With the faster release cycle and updating of Firefox, it’s been interesting to see features show up in the application like they do in web sites. They’re there the next time you load it, and are discovered almost by accident … Continue reading

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Logging motion with the Raspberry Pi

Since purchasing the Pi Cobbler Breakout Kit I wanted to digitally plan out the project before connecting a single wire. There seems to be a lot of choice for circuit design software (open source even), but the one I chose … Continue reading

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Lighting an LED on the Raspberry Pi

Since getting a Raspberry Pi I’ve wanted to use the GPIO pins, but have tried to heed the various warnings regarding static and other issues one might face like using 3.3v vs 5v devices or how much power peripherals draw. … Continue reading

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Arduino Motion Detector

As I have been traveling through Getting Started with Arduino I’ve been trying to take on the “tinkering” mentality described in chapter two titled, “The Arduino Way“. And as the text in the book states, “You should now experiment by … Continue reading

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Arrival of the Raspberry Pi

I got the Raspberry Pi in yesterday and wanted to show what came with it as well as my first steps. Pictured below is the packaging, top, and bottom view of the board: I didn’t receive much in the way … Continue reading

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Ubuntu 12.04 with Gimp 2.8

After upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04 from 10.04, I realized Gimp was at an older version (2.6) than 2.8. Presently, here’s how 12.04 can run 2.8 without much hassle: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gimp gimp-plugin-registry

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