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Raspberry Pi Router Benchmark
Introduction My ISP don’t provide IPv6 and the wireless router they give out does not work with IPv6 Tunnels. So I setup a Raspberry Pi as a router on a stick to route IPv6 on my home network to my IPv6 tunnel provider over IPv4.
Essential Films
Here are my essential films. It’s somewhere between my favourite films and a list of films that must been seen. It’s in alphabetical order and I was originally aiming for the 50 mark however there are too many good films so the current count is 83.
Credit Card Exchange Rates
I have a Barclaycard credit card and a Halifax credit card. I recently decided to experiment to try to find out how much it cost to use them abroad to withdraw cash from and ATM.
Petrol Price
Petrol prices always seem to be in the news. This is mostly because it costs a lot of money and continues to increase all the time. Duty increases and VAT increases are both usually blamed.
Cineworld Scrape
I love going to the cinema. I usually go once a week to my local Cineworld multiplex. Their website has changed a few times over the years. Generally the changes have all been improvements and my local cinema listing is good.
Extra IDE
ExraIDE is a patch to the Linux kernel to enable more that the standard 20 ide disk drives in a Linux system, as each IDE controller that is driven by the old style drivers be it PATA or SATA (ie not libata).
GPG Bench Cipher
I benchmarked a few of the gpg ciphers. I created a 1GB file from /dev/urandom with dd. Running “gpg –version” gives a list of available ciphers. I then ran “time cat test | gpg –symmetric –cipher-algo TWOFISH > test.
WD ShareSpace
(Update 01/09/2009 - All of the below is now not necessary as the latest firmware has an option from the web interface to turn on remote root ssh shell access, YAY for Western Digital!
DDS Destruction
To see how hardy dds tapes were, I decided to do some tests. I apologise for the image quality. Anyway, on with the show. Before My main test was to see how strong the cassettes actually are, so I decided to run one over with my car.
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