I updated the about page with links to all the Kevin Becker based websites I could find. If nothing else I aim to be the foremost repository of Kevin Becker related information on the internets. Got a Kevin Becker website? Let me know!
Here are a few random links with information about Raspberry Pi cases.
Using the lego case model above as a starting point, along with the measurements from the other links, I'm going to try to work up my own Lego case.
I still haven't gotten around to testing Dropbear but I did find that SSH has built-in compression that can improve performance over slow links. So using the command:
ssh -X -C user@host
Creates an X tunnel with compression which is much more usable for me. It's still a bit slow but it is slow even on my LAN. I'm still planning to see if Dropbear can squeeze a little more performance out of my old netbook. Ultimately I don't think the Raspberry Pi will be much more powerful (if at all) than my netbook so every bit of performace optimization will help.
I don't really know what, if anything I'm going to do with this blog. Probably nothing. But for now, I'm going to use it as a public place to dump things that are interesting to me.
For example I've been looking forward to the upcoming release of the Raspberry Pi. I dug out my old Eee PC 701 netbook to start working on a few of my ideas for these little things. I'm not sure performance-wise how they compare but the netbook is really feeling slow these days. I just tried running firefox on it from work via SSH X forwarding and it was pretty much unusable. I'm sure my home uplink speed is part of the issue but it seems like 1.5Mps should be adequate. It's faster from a local LAN connection but still not great. Which brings me to the inspiration for this post. I just stumbled across Dropbear on the rpi forums. It's supposed to be a less resource intensive than OpenSSH. I'll give it a try on the eeepc and if there is a noticeable difference I'll be sure to use it on the rpi.
