Showing posts with label utility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label utility. Show all posts

Friday, July 19, 2013

PRISM Break!

Opt out of PRISM, the NSA’s global data surveillance program. Stop the American government from spying on you by encrypting your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary services.
Please go and see: https://prism-break.org/.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Performance tuning : Swappiness

I got my linux pc was slowing down because of swap. Then, I checked in htop, oh, my main memmory was about 1.5 GB left (totally 4 GB). Why swap was allocated util main memory was 85 or 90%? I ask a help from my senior. He said to google "Swappiness". I found one of the solutions and did as they said. Now, I am ok. I set vm.swappiness = 10 and rebooted. Check detail: http://unixfoo.blogspot.com/2007/11/linux-performance-tuning.html

Friday, September 28, 2012

Blue LED Cube

The amazing article :).



This is exactly what it sounds like, an awesome flashing cube of LED's. After seeing a 512 LED cube on hackaday I decided that I needed one for myself and went right to ebay to find some cheap LED's. Although 512 LED's seems like a daunting number it only took one weekend to make the control circuit and construct the cube, the code and animations though took a few weeks, maybe coding isn't my thing. I will go through some of the steps and theory here and you can see the results in the video at the end.

Read more full article here: http://www.hownottoengineer.com/projects/lc.html