Mostly about things you can express in binary.
A few weeks back I was faced with 30, 60 and sometimes even 95% packet loss every 3-4 days, so I wanted to setup some simple network monitoring to keep track of my broadband connection. I started off using ad-hoc tools whenever the internet mis-behaved, and then I would call up my ISP and wait for them …
This blog post will look at using the GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) ports of the Raspberry Pi to drive a 7 segment display, which will display the number of wireless devices on a wireless network. I think this is a project where the Raspberry Pi can really shine – it would take more work and …
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Have you ever seen one of these username/password dialog boxes popping up when connecting to your university or work wireless network? This is commonly known as WPA2 Enterprise. Wouldn’t it be cool to have this at home, too? 🙂 This blogpost will describe the steps required to setup such a system from scratch, using a …
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My Raspberry Pi finally arrived yesterday! Here are some of my first impressions. I had two SD cards prepared, a blue SanDisk SDHC class 4 with the latest Debian “squeeze” and a Transcend class 10 with Arch Linux (01-03-2012). Both were 16GB, both booted. Debian somehow didn’t allow me to use my keyboard and mouse …