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Free vector graphics and icons by freepik
Freepik has made several vector graphics and icons available. Worth to take a look. Their icons are available also at flaticon. In this blog, I try to make a short story by using freepik icons. Please note that, icons are … Continue reading
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Raspberry Pi and physical interfaces
Raspberry Pi contains several GPIO pins, which can be used as digital input or outputs (GPIO = General-purpose input/output). For example, if GPIO4 is defined as output, then setting the output value to 1 provides 3.3V into that physical pin … Continue reading
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“Tiger in the cage” examples, bow-tie analysis as part of risk assessment
Bowtie analysis might be an helpfull tool for risk assessment. I used yEd to create my own bowtie (see the source at the end). Bow tie analysis in the ISO 31010. Bow tie analysis is a simple diagrammatic way of … Continue reading
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Raspberry Pi as security device, first look on IPFire
Raspberry Pi is an interesting candidate for a low cost, low power, small and open source based security device to be used at small office or at home office (SOHO), or for protecting your home automation… However, some preconcerns were … Continue reading
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Ditto, tool for pasting unformatted text
MS Windows does not have a keyboard shortcut for copy pasting text only. In the long run it can be very tedious copy-pasting process when creating presentations or writing documents. Ditto (open source) is a good alternative for this. It … Continue reading
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Balabolka and Microsoft Speech Platform, way for multilanguage TTS (text-to-speech)
Most of the TTS tools on MS Windows support SAPI 5 (SAPI=Microsoft Speech API). In a previous blog, eSpeak and TTSReader were introduced as an alternatives for non-english languages. The good news is that the free tool called Balabolka also … Continue reading
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PingInfoView, tool for monitoring network latency (ping)
There are several free tools for monitoring availability of multiple computers. However, it is surprisingly difficult to find a tool with the source code available. (For other needs, please look the discussion forums of your preferred programming language, there are … Continue reading
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