Echoes of Mogadishu Past

Happy New Year! Once again I must apologize for the infrequency of posts here on Likembe.  There is no one reason why the spirit hasn't ...

Forcing the CPU affinity can make a monothreaded process run 2-3x faster

Today, I chrooted in my system from sysresCD and I discovered that running eix-update (a gentoo portage indexing program) ran almost 3x fas...

You don't trust your mouse anymore?

It never happened to you ? Sometimes... really sometimes... you click something and nothing happens. Logitech mice for example have a long s...

How to bypass those annoying filtered internet accesses

Today I had to login on one of those FON access points where http/https are ok but the rest was not. Here is my recipe to quickly and painle...

The Go Language is faster than the computer language benchmarks game thinks it is

Note : yes this is anecdotal but my point is that a complete test could be interesting. I noticed that the computer language benchmarks com...

Fighting Biafra

Thanks to a tip from reader/listener Zim Bida, I was able to score from Ebay an almost-mint copy of the elusive LP Igba na Egwu Ndi Biafra J...

Odds and Ends

Taking care of some unfinished business today. . . Many thanks to Ken Chijar Ekezie, who provides us with Part Two of the exceedingly rare ...