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Ghetto-sistor
This, my friends, is what is called a "ghetto-sistor."It's what you get when you need a 1K ohm resistor, but don't have a new one handy, and instead have to settle for ripping one out of an old...
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Linux terminal speed benchmarks
In system administration, you spend a lot of time typing into and reading back information from a terminal. Although all terminals pretty much do the same thing, they can differ somewhat in their UI...
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Overcontroller
Not only is this my first x0xb0x track, it's the first full piece of "music" I've composed. Evar.The main sound is a x0xb0x connected to a Zoom 506 bass guitar effects pedal with some pretty wild...
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We be x0xing
It occurred to me today that I hadn't put up many pictures yet of my x0xb0x whilst under construction. It further occurred to me I had not taken many pictures of my x0xb0x whilst under construction...
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muddy thinking
3,000 Riot to Protest Crackdown on Illegal Amazon LoggingYou know you've had your head stuck inside a computer for too long when, after reading the headline above, you start wondering why:1. How long...
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Korg Electribe EMX-1
Next on my list of completely bad-ass gadgets to acquire in the distant future:(This is not me playing by the way, it's the user known as Denkitribe on YouTube and his beats generally rock.)
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OpenSSH: The Poor Man's SOCKS Proxy
Just when I think I know everything I need to know about OpenSSH, I end up learning something new and tremendously useful. Today, that would be the -D argument.Many times I have been stuck on an...
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getting wired
A recent Slashdot article reminded me of my first attempts at trying to communicate with the outside world via computer. Growing up, I lived in a relatively remote area with no one I could talk to...
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kick-ass song time
I'm an avid fan of music. Electronic music in particular, with only a few exceptions. I try to keep only freely-redistributable muzak in my playlists. Not only is it more affordable, but I believe...
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x0x #2
To make up for the rather non-trivial amount of money it cost to build my x0xb0x, I decided to make another and sell it on eBay. I've been working on it since January (often while I should have been...
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On not coming in last
Not content with making it as difficult as humanly possible for a person to enter back into his or her own country, now the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol want to scan and store the fingerprint profile...
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x0x #3 Almost ready!
I'm almost done with x0xb0x #3.This one is being quite the problem child, actually. Two note LEDs flat-out didn't work, so those had to be replaced. The TEMPO LED had to be replaced because I scratched...
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x0xb0x #3
Just finished up x0xb0x #3. All of the basic functionality seems to work and it sounds just like a 303. Well, better than a 303 in my book but I guess I'm probably biased.They gray knobs were...
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The State of Solid State
So, this guy does some speculative research and comes to the conclusion that mechanical hard disks will still be the dominant secondary storage technology for computers in 2020. Somehow, I'm a bit...
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Symmetric Encryption with PyCrypto, Part I
This is a multi-part series on the basics of implementing symmetric cryptography in Python with PyCrypto. By the end of the series, we'll have a program that takes a password plus a file and outputs...
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HOWTO: Backup an Entire Hard Disk to a Smaller One
In my book, one of the best ways to back up an entire disk is to simply dump an image of it to external media. For instance, let's say you have an OS installed on your workstation and you want to try a...
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Playing with localStorage
This seems to be something of a well-kept secret. It appears that almost all newer web browsers support various types of client storage without the use of cookies. The web storage specification (part...
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Symmetric Encryption with PyCrypto, Part 2
This is the second part of my introductory series on cryptography in Python and it covers the AES block cipher with lots of actual code this time. Please read the first part if you're new to this...
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