Linux Terminal Speed Benchmarks

Mon 27 October 2008

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 …

Ghetto-sistor

Fri 24 October 2008

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 …

It's Alive!

Fri 24 October 2008

And by god, it is blinky.