Being a part of the irc.p2pchat.net community for quite a number of years, and during that time collecting data from various rooms, I thought it would be fun to try and compile that data in to a interesting format. Looking into the software I could use for such an activity, I stumbled upon Pisg, (Perl

Years ago by a forgotten party, I was introduced to a piece of software for monitoring Linux systems; it’s name is Munin. What Munin does is to analyse all sorts of system logs for important attributes, and graph them for you. If you’re running a Linux distribution there’s a good chance there will be a

Providing software support in a IRC chatroom can prove daunting at times. The users seeking assistance will have varying levels of familiarity with the software in question, and oftentimes lack a basic understanding of how to use the software at all. Online documentation is quite helpful,  pointing them in the way of this documentation can

What is Aliosensu? Aliosensu is the branding I decided on for my electronics projects. I have been working on a number of different electronics projects over the past several months, and a number of them have made it to the stage where I designed and submitted for production a lot of PCBs. Because there would

Recently, I’ve been using some DS18b20 One-Wire temperature sensors for a few projects, including a serial to USB temperature monitoring device I built for remote monitoring. After testing the sensor and logging profiles for a few weeks in a stable environment, I decided it would be interesting to move the sensor to an outdoor location.

The Aliosensu Wide Breadboard Power Supply, is a power supply for breadboards that are wider than the standard breadboard. (widest power rail pins are 54mm) Besides being designed to work with wider boards, it was also created to uncomplicate working with higher DC voltages through the use of the direct from source power availability. The

With the rise of the great peer to peer file sharing protocol Bittorrent, other peer to peer file-sharing clients, fell from prominence. Clients like LimeWire, BearShare, Kazaa and Shareaza along with countless others as well as the networks that they operated on have fallen by the wayside. Networks such as Gnutella, and Gnutella2 have dwindled

In more recent history, YouTube, has jumped on the bandwagon of steaming video live. Surely adding features is a good thing, they give the publisher more freedom in how they go about getting their work out. They can now broadcast in real-time. Just like the breaking news that you might get on TV. While this

I received my Lenovo y50-70 in early 2015, and initially was quite impressed by its build quality and sleekness. It shipped windows 8.1 which I was not quite so impressed with, but this can be changed or customized depending on your needs. In the end after some tweaking and installing of a new start menu