Category: Technical

  • SecureCRT Jump Host Script

    Incase someone else want to use a Jump Host(SSH) and SecureCRT here is the Script I use:  

  • The actual Old radio case

     

  • Radio Rehab – Now with sound

    Over the last few years I have had a dream of converting an old broken radio into a bluetooth enabled system. So far I have purchased: An old radio from an antique fair Two inexpensive stereo amplifies, First & Second One Bluetooth adapter 12v to 5v converter 12v Power supply adapter I have now started […]

  • Tracking health and activity

      Activity Monitoring: Misfit Shine I use and recommend the Misfit Shine, not only is this a nice product for monitoring Activity levels, the company has good support and stands behind their product.  They have replace two of the devices I have. Weight Monitoring: Withings Scale This one is expensive, but by monitoring my weight […]

  • Step 0: Old Radio Project

    I am starting a new project, I want to restore an old Radio, with new Hi-tech – low cost guts. The plan is to find an old Radio on craig’s list, put in Raspberry Pi Bluetooth audio, and some new speakers. New SD Card Image: diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s1 sudo dd bs=1m if=2013-09-25-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/rdisk2 diskutil eject […]

  • Mathmatica Raspberry Pi

    If you like me want to run Mathmatica, now available on the Raspberry Pi, but you don’t have your Pi connected to a monitor, you can try this:   /opt/Wolfram/WolframEngine/10.0/Executables/math In[1]:= Print[“Hello World”]                                                                                                  Hello World Then of course, you can add this to your path: export PATH=$PATH:/opt/Wolfram/WolframEngine/10.0/Executables

  • Using Pig to Bulk load data into Cassandra CQL3 tables

    Cassandra is a distributed Key Value Store maintained by Apache Software Foundation.  http://cassandra.apache.org/ Pig is a Map/Reduce Scripting language maintained by Apache Software Foundation.  Pig takes scripts written in PigLatin and converts them to Hadoop Jobs. http://pig.apache.org/ As of the release of Cassandra 1.2.8, you can now read/LOAD and write/STORE with PIG to Cassandra CQL3 […]