Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Musing on computing, math, electronics, de-Googling and the small web, from an old warhorse of the IT industry.
July 2026
August 2026
September 2026
Top Words
- raspberry
- linux
- java
- pico
- command
- hacking
- apache
- android
- audio
- broker
All posts (334)
Functional interfaces are allow Java programmers to write methods whose arguments are lambda functions. How does this work, and why would it be useful?
The Apache ActiveMQ Artemis message broker holds out the possibility of real shared-nothing replication. The problem, though, lies in coordinating the active and passive brokers in the cluster. This article describes the new active/passive management framework, and how to use Apache Zookeeper as the source of...
Sometimes it's helpful to be able to create an executable program that embeds all the data it needs, and provide that data as files. C/C++ do not provide any standard way to do this, but GCC has facilities that the developer can use.
This article describes how to write a trivial program for Linux using no compiler tools at all, but entering machine language directly in hexadecimal. Because we can.
It isn't often that coding theory can be used to evaluate a claim of a UFO encounter. Here is one instance where it can.
Audio CDs were recorded using a 44.1 kHz sample rate that is found almost nowhere else. If we have to resample this audio to suit more modern equipment, how much loss of audio quality will there be?
Collecting sensor data, or low-level system status information, is a job that is often best done in C/C++. Distributing this kind of data to other system components in a way that is platform- and language-independent can be a challenge. This article suggests a way to do this use AMQP message distribution.
We only see one face of the moon from the Earth, and that isn't a coincidence. The same process that causes this effect also affects other celestial bodies, often in more interesting ways.
The "big switch-off" of analogue radio services in the UK has been deferred repeatedly. One of the reasons for this is that the impact on energy efficiency is hard to assess. This article seeks to explain why.
Page 23 of 34