April Fools’ Day (April 1st) is fast approaching, so several web sites (including this) offer a few prank ideas. There are two articles even with same name: 25 Brilliant Prank Ideas For April Fools’ Day and 25 Brilliant Prank Ideas For April Fools Day. Check also 25 Best April Fools’ Day gags, hoaxes, pranks and →
Are you tired of generic advertisments? Generic advertising and promotion is promotion of a particular commodity without reference to a specific producer, brand name, or manufacturer. Typically commodity promotion programs use generic advertising to expand total demand for the commodity, thereby helping their own sales as well. Sometimes big international companies put out similar looking →
There are as many opinions about microphones as there are sound engineers. The people who have worked a long time in the field have experimented with many microphones, but what if you’re just starting out, or you need to mic something you haven’t worked with before? The writer of Control Geek blog decided to develop →
Has the bubble burst? Is that why camera sales in N. America are down by 43%? is an interesting articles about the future of photography, basically predicting the doom of consumer DSLRs. It tells that in future dedicated cameras & pixel peepers will be more like high fidelity audio, which used to be common selling →
I just watched though Linux Performance Analysis and Tools: Brendan Gregg’s Talk at SCaLE 11x. It is an interesting talk is about Linux Performance Analysis and Tools: specifically, observability tools and the methodologies to use them. It goes through over 20 Linux performance analysis tools, including advanced perf and DTrace for Linux, showing the reasons →
It seems that almost every big IT company needs to have their own programming language nowadays. It seems that every few months someone announces a new fad language, despite most of them them rarely bringing anything new to the table, or the new things they do bring not being significant enough to warrant switching from →
I needed to interface PC to some RS-485 test circuits, so I decided to try this cheap USB to RS485 Adapter – Black + Green adapter for that. I selected this specifically because of the cheap price (it is considerably cheaper than anything else I have seen for the same purpose). There should not be →
I read from Tietoviikko and Facebook today that the first computer programming championships is going to be held in Finland this spring. Hello World Open 2014 competition will be held this spring in Helsinki. The competition is hosted by two Finnish IT companies: technology company Reaktor and very successful mobile gaming company Supercell. The organizers want →
lsof is a very useful Linux command, which can be used to report a list of all open files and the processes that opened them. lsof is very useful in debugging because files in the Linux/Unix system include disk files, named pipes, network sockets and devices opened by all processes. lsof name comes from “list →
Some time ago I wanted an easy way to power logic circuits on breadboard (both 5V and 3.3v circuit as needed). The product 121305 3.3V / 5V Power Module for Breadboard – Deep Blue seemed to fit the needs pretty well at few dollars (around $3.5). It takes 6.5~12V DC input voltage and outputs regulated →