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These days, if you wire your house with anything less than gigabit, you might end up throttling your Internet connection. If you wired things up using two pairs per device …read more Continue reading Say No To Obsolescence, Wire Up Your House With Fiber
Dangerous machines, like ones that can quickly reduce you to a fine red mist or a smoking cinder, tend to have a Big Red Button™ to immediately stop whatever the …read more Continue reading Slap This Big Red Button for an Instant Social Media Detox
There’s a dreaded disease that’s plagued Internet Service Providers for years. OK, there’s probably several diseases, but today we’re talking about bufferbloat. What it is, how to test for it, …read more Continue reading Bufferbloat, the Internet, and How to Fix It
For those interested in a career in broadcast radio there aren’t many routes into the business. Student radio, pirate radio, and hospital radio usually feature somewhere near the start of …read more Continue reading A Simple Streaming Radio Receiver
Once upon a time, I was doing on-site support for a hardware install at a hotel a few years ago. The remote tech’s remote desktop software didn’t want to play …read more Continue reading SSH Is Magic, But Tunnels are Even Better
As a quantified-self experiment, [Ayan] has tracked several daily habits and moods for a couple of years and discovered some insights. Too much coffee is followed by anxiety while listening …read more Continue reading Know which way the wind blows, whether weather boosts your mood
Debugging network issues isn’t easy; many a sysadmin has spent hours trying to figure out which of the many links between client and server is misbehaving. Having a few clear …read more Continue reading Classic Multimeter Tells You If Your WiFi’s Working
If you have ever taken to Twitter to gauge the zeitgeist, you’ll have noticed that among the trending hashtags related to major events of the day there are sometimes outliers …read more Continue reading Gaming Twitter’s Trending Algorithm To Make A Point
While wireless communications are unquestionably useful in projects, common wireless protocols such as WiFi and Bluetooth peter out after only a number of meters, which is annoying when your project …read more Continue reading Casually Chirping Into The World Of LoRaWAN
For both better and worse, the internet landscape moves fast. Shortening attention spans and memories all over the world. But every once in a while, we get a reminder of …read more Continue reading Gone: Google Toolbar (2000-2021)