Today the Raspberry Pi 4 is released, featuring a new 1.5GHz Arm chip and VideoCore GPU. It brings some brand new additions to the board: dual-HDMI 4K display output; USB3 ports; Gigabit Ethernet; even multiple RAM options up to 4GB. The Raspberry Pi 4 is a very powerful single board computer and...
Last week I covered terminal multiplexer byobu, and this week's tool is quite similar. Terminator is a single-window split-screen terminal multiplexer that allows you to send identical keystrokes to all terminals at once. This means you can SSH into any number of machines, and run the same...
Byobu is a text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer. If you've ever used screen, it's similar but more modern and more intuitive. If you SSH'd into a Pi or server, ran sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade for example, and lost your internet connection while it was running, your command...
Today I'm sharing three tools for checking your internet and LAN speed: speedtest, fast and iperf. speedtest speedtest is an old favourite. It's implemented in Python, packaged in apt and also available with pip. You can use it as a command line tool, or within a Python script. Install it...