Time is broken, we need to fix it

Once upon a time, time was, by and large, governed by the sun. Least ways it used to be, but then came the railways. Y’see the trouble was that time in those days, or at least our measurement of it, was typically read off the sundial in the town square. Since the angle of the […]

Marcus Povey

Once upon a time, time was, by and large, governed by the sun. Least ways it used to be, but then came the railways. Y’see the trouble was that time in those days, or at least our measurement of it, was typically read off the sundial in the town square. Since the angle of the […]

Playing around with inotify

Inotify is a Linux subsystem which monitors the filesystem for changes, and provides a way to trigger actions when it does. This is handy, since it means that your program/demon can avoid polling for changes constantly, making it more efficient and reliable. As an aside, this is how the Linux Dropbox tool works. I was […]

Marcus Povey

Inotify is a Linux subsystem which monitors the filesystem for changes, and provides a way to trigger actions when it does. This is handy, since it means that your program/demon can avoid polling for changes constantly, making it more efficient and reliable. As an aside, this is how the Linux Dropbox tool works. I was […]

Raspberry Pi: First boot

It has been a few weeks since I finally received my Raspberry Pi, but up until today I have been too busy to play with it. This changed today when I finally installed a boot image on a 4GB SD card, wired up the tiny little circuit board to the TV and connected the power. […]

Marcus Povey

It has been a few weeks since I finally received my Raspberry Pi, but up until today I have been too busy to play with it. This changed today when I finally installed a boot image on a 4GB SD card, wired up the tiny little circuit board to the TV and connected the power. […]