Weekly Shaarli
Week 06 (February 3, 2020)
Since 2013, Backblaze has published statistics and insights based on the hard drives in our data center. You'll find links to those reports below. We also publish the data underlying these reports, so that anyone can reproduce them. You'll find an overview of this data and the download links further down this page.
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View the Loubat Codices in the Ancient Americas Codex Viewer
To test the HA crossover connection, here are some commands to verify that your crossover is working and sending data.
Repair saves you money. It saves the environment. And it connects us to our things. Ditch the throwaway economy.
The information resource for all wireless device applications filed with the FCC.
CellMapper is a crowd-sourced cellular tower and coverage mapping service.
Python 2.7 will not be maintained past 2020. Originally, there was no official date. Recently, that date has been updated to January 1, 2020.
LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls.
Recent linux kernels makes it possible to use some IR remote controls as regular input devices. Sometimes this makes LIRC redundant. However, LIRC offers more flexibility and functionality and is still the right tool in a lot of scenarios.
The most important part of LIRC is the lircd daemon which decodes IR signals received by the device drivers and provides the information on a socket. It also accepts commands for IR signals to be sent if the hardware supports this.
The user space applications allows you to control your computer with your remote control. You can send X11 events to applications, start programs and much more on just one button press. The possible applications are obvious: Infra-red mouse, remote control for your TV tuner card or CD-ROM, shutdown by remote, program your VCR and/or satellite tuner with your computer, etc. Using lirc on Raspberry Pie is quite popular these days.