Python support for the Lego WeDo kit

I started playing with my son on his  Lego WeDo kit  using the Scratch  language on his Rasberry pi . It felt a little bit limited on that a...

Measuring the disk occupancy trade off of the new ext4 filesystem inline data feature

I just made a script that outputs the ratio of your files that would fit a single inode for the different inode sizes you can pick. I also c...

Four Famous Singers

Many many thanks to Andreas Wetter for translating the liner notes of 4 ዝናኞች ሲያዳምጡ በልብዎ ላይ ሰላምና ፍቅር ያገኛሉ - When You Listen to the 4 Famous ...

A Double Dose of Dembo

Some years ago Sterns/Earthworks released a CD entitled Roots Rock Guitar Party . I remember thinking at the time: how can you assemble a c...

More Memories of Maneti

A couple of years ago I posted some memorable Muziki wa Dansi , a tribute by Tanzania's Orchestra Vijana Jazz to their departed lead si...

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...