Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Musing on computing, math, electronics, de-Googling and the small web, from an old warhorse of the IT industry.
Latest Posts
Do balanced headphones provide an improvement in sound quality over conventional, single-ended designs? Unlikely. In fact, the increased complexity of these designs may actually reduce the accuracy of sound reproduction.
Vintage vinyl records ought, perhaps, to be played on a vintage turntable. Although such appliances are still widely available, and can work well, they fall short of contemporary electrical safety standards.
Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of the various types of headphone that are currently available, without all the "audiophile" silliness.
Desktop Linux will take off next year -- or so people have been saying for years. Do desktop containerization technologies like Flatpak make this more, or less, likely?
Using 'date' and 'timedatectl' to build a utility to help with scheduling meetings in different timezones.
How to use tools like curl, sed, and groff to retrieve a weather forecast from the BBC, and format it for the terminal.
How to use Bash shell arithmetic to create a simple tide table
How to use Bash shell techniques to extract metadata (tags) from various audio file formats.
Using Linux command-line utilities to query an on-line database of Internet radio stations.
Using a Linux Bash script to generate audio/visual cues for timing paced breathing exercises.
How to use tools like curl and xsltproc to retrieve news headlines from the BBC, and display them using the manual viewer
How to use basic Bash constructs, along with the Gnome gio utility, to assign folder icons to a set of directories.
1999 was the golden year of palmtop computing. Within a couple of years, palmtops were obsolete. Why?
This article describes how to deploy a container image direct from a local repository to an OpenShift 4 cluster, and instantiate a pod based on that image.
Functional interfaces are allow Java programmers to write methods whose arguments are lambda functions. How does this work, and why would it be useful?