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Few more projects with my Raspberry Pi

I tried out a few more projects with my Raspi. First was to convert Raspi to a portable bluetooth speakers. I used the steps in this article. Initially I had a problem with PulseAudio where only playing the music as … Continue reading

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Preserving the past

There is this concern that a lot of digital media will become inaccessible due to changes to storage formats (floppy, cd, dvd, bluray …), protocols (com, usb, bluetooth), operating systems (windows 95, 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows … Continue reading

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Powering Raspberry Pi from iMac

I just tried powering my Raspberry Pi by connecting it to the USB port on my iMac and it worked just fine. My Pi setup is that it only has a USB wifi dongle and nothing else and runs in … Continue reading

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My first Raspberry Pi and what I got it for

I switched from Linux to Mac a few years back (this is not an article debating which one is better or anything like that, so don’t bother). I have some content on the linux machine that I would prefer to … Continue reading

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My first 3D printer, yet to come and hopefully it will

I recently pledged on Kickstarter to for a 3d printer. Yes, the The Buccaneer. Hopefully there are no risks and everything goes well and it would arrive Feb 2014. Long wait, but may be worth it. I have been prepping … Continue reading

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in-Vitro Meat: An invention that can spare killing animals

I am a vegetarian by choice but still this news, Engineering the $325,000 burger attracted my attention. Apparently, they are trying to grow beef tissue in a lab. If this is successful, economical and no health issues for those who … Continue reading

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Does Crowdsourcing Solve Big Data Problem?

Say there is a system that allows everyone to submit their own ideas for new products and people can vote which of those ideas are best. The top ideas are decided by the entire userbase and not by a few … Continue reading

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Reduce (the Order) or Map/Reduce?

Recently there was an interesting Problem on Project Euler, Problem 415 called Titanic Sets. The problem essentially asks for how many sets are possible from a lattice grid of GxG points such that the sets have only two co-linear points. … Continue reading

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Car Performance

This is the 4th post related to my car buying experience. The previous one was Buying a new car. As I mentioned, my first criteria was a Hybrid. Hybrid cars give a good MPG and that’s attractive to some of … Continue reading

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Buying A New Car

As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently bought a new car. I am one of those people who is not really good at haggling. Infact, in this day of the Internet age (I think we need to rewrite … Continue reading

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