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it's a clean machine: New disk for an old eee-pc
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Sunday, October 20, 2013. New disk for an old eee-pc. Our trusty eee-pc 901 was getting slower and slower. The 16G SSD in it was not very fast to begin with, but has definitely become slower over time. To keep the otherwise nice laptop running for a few more years, I decided to upgrade the SSD. The drive I ended up buying a 64G Super Talent FPM64GLSE. A quick test of the Super Talent with iozone. On the raspberry Pi earlier,. Iozone -e -I -a -s 50M -r 4k -r 512k -r 16M -i 0 -i 1 -i 2. An annoyance with t...
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it's a clean machine: Raspberry Router
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Thursday, November 1, 2012. I wanted to set up my Raspberry Pi as a 3G router for my small home network, and as a file server too. It worked out nicely, so here are some notes and links that helped me. My internet connection is provided by a USB GSM modem (Huawei E173), so the first task is to get this device running on the Pi. This was surprisingly easy, thanks to the sakis3g script. Sudo apt-get install ppp isc-dhcp-server. Wget "http:/ www.sakis3g.org/versions/latest/armv4t/sakis3g.gz. With one option...
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it's a clean machine: Beads with Flowing Stripes
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Thursday, September 19, 2013. Beads with Flowing Stripes. Experimenting with striped patterns in polymer clay. I wanted a natural wavy look that would continue across the beads. For the base, I used a somewhat translucent dark gray. The gray is mixed from 1 part translucent 'white' (unpigmented) Fimo Soft polymer clay, and 1/32th black Fimo Soft. The stripes are plain white Fimo. Above, the beads before baking, and below, after baking and polishing. Posted by Johanna Grönqvist. Tenne's Recliner of Rage.
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it's a clean machine: Favourite Games: Widelands
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Friday, March 15, 2013. A strategy game where you build up your civilization and defend it from your enemies. The best defense may well be striking first. Widelands is an open source game, and is said to be similar to Settlers II. The game is still evolving, but is already very enjoyable. There is a multiplayer mode which I have not tried, but it sounds like great fun. If you feel brave, try out the development version. The Favorite Game series. OpenTTD a.k.a. the Train Game. Posted by Fredrik Jansson.
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it's a clean machine: Fractures and Fractals
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Monday, March 4, 2013. A wintry day I saw cracks in our parking lot asphalt with salt crystallized around the cracks. The patterns looked nice and reminded me of fractals, and gave a nice topic for a small Processing program. Move the mouse over the picture to see different patterns! Click to zoom in, right-click to zoom out. The connection between the Julia and Mandelbrot fractals is this: The parameter (c ) of the Julia fractal corresponds to one point in the image of the Mandelbrot set. When (c ) ...
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it's a clean machine: Yashica D resurrection
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Sunday, July 28, 2013. I found my uncle's old camera when sorting some old things, a Yashica D. It has been non-operational for the last 20 years, used mainly for projecting images through the viewfinder onto the ceiling with a flashlight. Now I started wondering if the camera could be used for photography again. The camera looked to be in a nice condition, but the shutter was stuck. Came to the rescue, armed with an excellent guide to disassembling the shutter. The shutter disassembly guide. By Dave Gau...
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it's a clean machine: Masking & red cabbage dyeing Easter eggs
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Sunday, March 31, 2013. Masking and red cabbage dyeing Easter eggs. This year we colored Easter eggs with red cabbage juice. The patterns were made by masking the eggs with washi tape and candle wax. To get patterns on the eggs, we covered some parts of them with washi masking tape. We also used molten candle wax, applied with a small paint brush. The eggs were soaked in the cabbage dye for a few hours. The lines on the egg that appears to pass below another line were created where the tape stripe passed...
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it's a clean machine: Conserving screen space in GNOME
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Saturday, October 26, 2013. Conserving screen space in GNOME. I finally found a tool to accomplish something I have wanted for a long time, namely tuning the size of icons and buttons in Gnome. Gnome applications waste a lot of precious screen space by default, probably the default settings are developed for and by people with six HD monitors at their desks. On a tiny screen such as the 1024x600 screen in my eee-pc, pixels are precious and should not be wasted. Sudo aptitude install gnome-color-chooser.
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it's a clean machine: Airport luggage cones
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Thursday, October 17, 2013. Found these beauties at the airport. My theory is that they have something to do with luggage transport. Posted by Johanna Grönqvist. Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Tenne's Recliner of Rage. Scoutkåren Pojkarna r.f. WiFi access point with Raspberry Pi. Color mixes for pastel beads. Beads with Flowing Stripes. SD card benchmark on the Raspberry Pi. Wiring A Wireless Doorbell.
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it's a clean machine: A Pibow case!
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Saturday, February 16, 2013. For Christmas I got a Pibow. Case I like it very much! The Pi in the Pibow case feels nice and robust. The Pi gets slightly warmer in the case than without one, but this has not been a problem at all. Posted by Fredrik Jansson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Tenne's Recliner of Rage. Scoutkåren Pojkarna r.f. WiFi access point with Raspberry Pi. Color mixes for pastel beads. Beads with Flowing Stripes. SD card benchmark on the Raspberry Pi. Wiring A Wireless Doorbell.
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