I recently bought a few OCZ ARC 100 240GB SSDs as Newegg had them on sale ($59.49 each). I currently use a 2009 MacBook Pro, and it has been showing its age. The first bottleneck was the RAM, which I upgraded to the maximum 8 GB. This helped for a while, but in the past few months I have noticed that high amounts of disk read/write were slowing down the computer as CPU and RAM were not nearly fully utilized. With this upgrade, I get a bit more space (I’ve had to get used to 160 GB) but more importantly faster loading times for applications. It is extremely satisfying to see an application bounce only once on the dock instead of 5-10 times.
On April 1, President Obama released an Executive Order titled “Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities”. Cybersecurity has become a very important aspect of our country’s security, so at a glance this order seems like a good step towards keeping our nation’s critical infrastructure safe. But there are some important reasons why this might not be the case.
I spend a lot of time in the command line. Over time I have come across these valuable tools.
This semester I joined the Ramblin Rocket Club at Georgia Tech and last week I had a successful launch and recovery of my first rocket.
In my English 1102 class at GA Tech this summer, we were assigned a project: present on a topic of curiosity. While there were options to create a book or a website, my group decided to make an exhibit of physical objects. In keeping with the standards of museums, I thought I would create an audio device to accompany the visual exhibit. This would be a perfect use for my Raspberry Pi.