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First argument is the block device to test. Requires the dd command and /dev/urandom to be present. #! /bin/bash echo -e "\033[1...

I attached 2 fans facing (the output of one fan is fed into the output of another) each other and sealed together with insulating tape. Whe...

Here I'll benchmark the seek times of various thumbdrives. Seeks times are useful when you're syncing Bitcoin/Altcoin wallets . I...

This bash script will generate CSV output for any altcoin/Bitcoin given the path of it's daemon binary. It makes RPC calls via the binar...

Energy Efficiency -- Partial Stability in prices -- Partial 51% protection -- Partial Fast confirmation times -- No Prevent instamine --...

This can only be achieved in Linux. Bitcoin/Altcoin wallet syncing is hard disk i/o intensive; specifically it requires fast seek times. B...

This's a simple undocumented program to GPU mine scrypt, sha256 based coins. It was the 1st implementation of scrypt GPU mining. This pr...

See http://delogics.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-ultimatebest-cyrptocurrency.html for judgment criteria. 1) energy efficiency -- Almost 2) St...

Structure of text -- 0) feature -- Analysis/reasoning (importance score of the feature out of 10) FAQ -     A) Reason 1     B) Reason 2     ...

I used John and ImageMagick to do the benchmark with the Intel OCL sdk installed. The results (John) -- mscash2-opencl -- OpenCL platfor...

#! /bin/bash # Rename all the files and folders in the current directory serially. # DOES NOT PRESERVE EXTENSION. #1st argument -- no. of p...

#! /bin/bash # Rename all the files and folders in the current directory to random. # DOES NOT PRESERVE EXTENTION #1st argument -- no. of p...

My neighbors have 3 chickens as pets (with possible intention of organic eggs also), 2 of them are male broilers, and one of them is a femal...

I know about the Deltas; but this one is faster; you got it right, it's homemade. All you'll need are propellers, which're com...

Last time I reviewed Philips 192EL2 and gave moderate feedback; but after looking at this Dell monitor, I think I forgot to praise it's ...

This's a virtual FS to browse through archives. It can even browse through block devices (like cd/dvd drives, PD etc...

What I mean here is that the disk will not contain any traditional disk FS like iso*, UDF etc.. but will contain a raw file at block level; ...

First argument -- from date, format yyyymm, second argument, to date format -- yyyymm Third argument -- no. of parallel fetches e.g. -- ....

These images cant be extracted from any part of the video. You have to search for parts in which the camera is moved from left to right on...

As you know, for a 3d picture, you have to take 2 images both of which will represent the views of both your eyes. But that doesn't mean...

These 32 Ohms headphones are cheep yet, it's quality is fabulous. If you ain't deaf (i.e. wont hear so load so as to damage your e...

This propitiatory program called nanozip has internal ties with http://compressionratings.com which posts false and ambiguous compression re...

Software patents are commonly misused by companies to kill competition; practically there're just 2 companies (apparently protected by ...