Author: sroot
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Alternatives to ordering from Amazon
Amazon has it’s place as a supplier, but for many things I’d like to avoid their marketplace and buy directly. So, I’m making a public list for myself so I know where else I can look for suitable alternatives. Please comment if you know good sources for other products, it will help me and maybe…
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Building a low power server
Note to future me: The reason the new server HDD would not sleep is because ext4lazyinit writes inodes slowly on new disks in the background, so the disks were immediately woken even if forced to sleep. Build a low power server… It will be easy, says me… Replace our 10 year old Atom C2750 running…
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Santa-pi, a music player for a charity fundraising float
This is a Raspberry Pi. A small, powerful, low cost computer. I’m writing this blog post from the pi you see in the photo. It is very slow compared to my laptop but it works and is in front of me now, whereas my laptop is a whole 2 meters away on another desk. This…