Category: Science & Geeks
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Raspberry Pi as a local DNS/DHCP server
For a local network supporting a small company or an Internet-active family, it is always possible to rely totally on an Internet Service Provider (ISP) which will provide basic network services straight from the Internet box/router (fibre or ADSL). But, if – like me – you want to have more flexibility, you’d prefer to setup…
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Crinkle cranckle
Two images that I found both on the excellent TYWKIWDBI blog. You will notice that they are loosely related.
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Battle of the neighboroods
This post is part of a small series of non-university studies (guest posts from enlightened amateurs) on Roumazeilles.net. So, we sometimes welcome a few authors whose works may be of a wider interest or simply original. The work below has been written by Marion Jonchères, in November 2020. Yves Roumazeilles 1. Introduction: Business understanding, target…
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This is beer day, here
So, I decided to share some information which would distract us all beer drinkers by concentrating more on the process of drinking and on drinking less (let’s be sure not to abuse any substance, even when it is pleasant/nice). A great/long paper about a well-documented book titled “A natural history of beer“, by George Scialabba.…
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A TV decoder box comes to our house
Sometimes, you just think aloud about a technical possibility and one of the family members will jump and request an immediate application. What could you say? Your geek reputation is at stake! I spoke about small computers that can easily become a network server (Raspberry Pi) and Android boxes which ease publication of videos onto…
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Cast picture slideshows to Chromecast
A Chromecast is a really funny little tool that will ease the connection of a basic TV set to a computer or your smartphone. But Google really limited the possibilities – explicitly because they wanted to keep users inside the Google biosphere. So, I wanted to use my old Chromecast 2013 (but the issue and…