Category Archives: Computing

The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive, single board computer that is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. (https://www.raspberrypi.org/) In these last ten years it has taken the educational, hobbyist and maker markets by storm, because of its large open source … Continue reading →

The Illiac IV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILLIAC_IV) was the biggest and baddest supercomputer of its time in the 1970s. It was eventually installed at NASA Ames Research Center in the San Francisco Bay Area and was reported to have been 13 times faster … Continue reading →

I have too many computers and they all have disks or SSDs to store my stuff. It’s a pain to keep the versions in order. But it’s easier if you can keep only one copy and all the computers can … Continue reading →

In about 2003 I bought dedicated audio streaming device, a Roku SoundBridge, in order to listen to internet radio. In the intervening decade, dedicated audio streamers have become obsolete and Roku discontinued the device. There appear to be no replacements. … Continue reading →

Birdie-cam is deployed! But unfortunately the birdies have yet to show up. It’s still too early for them to arrive, but now we’re ready. Each year some finches build a nest on top of outdoor speakers that we have on … Continue reading →