Hacking & Retrocomputing

Wanscam JW0004 IP Webcam hacking

Yes, I've bought this crappy webcam... On paper, it seems to have really nice features, but in reality there are lots of bugs and not everything works as expected. So if you can buy a Foscam instead go for it, but that's not the same price :-)

If you're stuck with …
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New Amazon EC2 T2 micro instances computing power

In 2009, I tested the computing performance of 'M1 small' EC2 instances. At this time it was the cheapest EC2 instances available, at $0.10 per hour.

Now 'T2 Micro' instances are available at only $0.013 per hour. I wanted to test how they compare to the old instances …
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Gandi Hosting vs Amazon EC2 computing power (updated)

I'm currently playing with Amazon Web Services and EC2, Amazon's highly flexible VPS hosting service. Gandi Hosting is providing a similar Xen based hosting service, and last day I saw that they benchmarked their basic "one share" server with Unixbench and got a score of 40.

I was curious to …
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Android NBench: PC power in your pocket

When I have a new Linux device in my hands, I love running NBench to see the raw CPU power. So I ported the NBench to Android, and you can find it in the Android Market.

The benchmark was designed to expose the capabilities of a system's CPU, FPU, memory …
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Gandi Hosting vs Amazon EC2 computing power

I'm currently playing with Amazon Web Services and EC2, Amazon's highly flexible VPS hosting service. Gandi Hosting is providing a similar Xen based hosting service, and last day I saw that they benchmarked their basic "one share" server with Unixbench and got a score of 40.

I was curious to …
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