Category: Hardware

  • Yard Sale: Macbook Pro (2007)

    Selling my old Macbook Pro 15″ (Glossy) (2007). This is a 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo device, with 2Gb RAM. It has a 160Gb SATA drive, spinning at 7200rpm. It’s an Azerty keyboard. It’s currently running Mavericks (10.9.x). The Macbook Pro is slightly scratched here and there from normal use. The battery got replaced about 2…

  • Yard Sale: WiFi adapters

    Another day, another Yard Sale. I’m selling about 100 DWA-160 D-Link USB WiFi adapters (Atheros). These are compatible with Raspberry Pi and do not require an external power source. And are obviously compatible with Linux (firmware-linux-free). Some of these adapters are new, others are used. Two different generation mixed (see the WPS button in the picture). These adapters can be…

  • Yard Sale: 4Gb SD cards

    Post two of my Yard Sale: I have six Kingston 4Gb class 4 SDs (SDHC) for sale. The cards are still packed and never used*. Items are genuine and acquired via Techdata. Price: €4,50/piece. Invoice is possible for this. Items located in Antwerp, but can deliver in Brussels or Ghent (or ship it). Note: I…

  • Yard Sale: Macbook Air (2011)

    This is the first of several things I’ll be getting rid of in the coming days/weeks. For sale: a Macbook Air 13″ (2011), 4Gb RAM, 128Gb SSD, QWERTY (!). The MBA got acquired mid 2011 in Hong Kong by Candy. Downside: the screen got cracked about a year ago during travel. After a couple of…

  • Munin + Raspberry Pi + temperature: updated

    I got a mail in my inbox about a week ago from Anthony, telling me how to improve my Munin & temp script for a RPi: Hi, I just read your (old) blog post about monitoring the temperature of the Raspberry Pi with munin[1]. I had the exact same error as you did when I was…

  • Why historical data matters (and is just cool to look at)

    CPU temperature from a Raspberry Pi (behind the display, in the wall). (zoom in)    

  • 4.4.x & Nexus 7 (2012/v1)

    New Android, once more a laggy device. Thank you Google. My Nexus 7 (1st generation, 2012 model, with 3G) is encrypted, so I guess that might also slow everything further down. Three things I did to solve the lagginess: Wipe cache (howto), Clear space (I had some movies left on it, deleted a few big…

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