Diminishing returns after 6 cores Handbrake is a video transcoder. It’s normally used to convert and compress video from a format into a more compressed format. Handbrake comes in a command line…
Category: Hardware
Posts about a particular piece of hardware. Might also include details about how the hardware works with Xubuntu Linux.
Sometimes a newer computer isn’t better
Most of the time a newer computer *is* better Conventional wisdom dictates the newer a computer is, the better the computer is. This bit of advice generally holds true comparing an earlier…
If I was building a new Media Centre
I could cut corners, but… This evening I went through the exercise of thinking about the parts I would use if I was building a brand new computer to serve as our…
Hardware detection script for *buntu Linux refurbishers
About the script I wrote the hardware.sh BASH script to make it a bit simpler for volunteers at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project to figure out what hardware was in a…