Linux Neckbeard Shocked, A Newfangled Code Editor that Doesn't Suck
It was a dark and stormy night. My eyes were glued to the screen as I watched the Ansible playbook make its way through the myriad configuration changes across dozens of production hosts. Of course all of this had been tested in staging but if you work in technology, you …
Read more...My BITX40 Build
The BITX40 is a QRP (low-power) transceiver kit for the 40 meter amateur radio band. Although it is low-power (nominal 7 watts), and restricted to a single band (7 MHz), the $60 USD price tag makes it very attractive to those like myself who like to build things and play …
Read more...Raspberry Pi Serial Console in Linux
My Raspberry Pi arrived in the mail earlier this week. However, work, family, and other commitments meant that tinkering with it had to wait until the weekend. Until today, all that I managed to accomplish was to download a Debian-based OS image, flash it to an SD card, hook the …
Read more...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 special-ordered from Korg Europe. They were made for the Electribe ESX-1 and …
Read more...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 it to hell and back. The TEMPO encoder was replaced because the first …
Read more...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 studying) but finally got it done after about 2 months of …
Read more...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 "untrusted" Internet connection and need to log in (insecurely) to a certain site …
Read more...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 either. Besides the one a few posts down, this is it:
Here the power …
Read more...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 features or which desktop they were designed to be integrated into.
A few years back I …
Read more...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 telephone before you realize that one leg is going to be …
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