Linux

$ soffice --headless --convert-to txt:Text TEXT_DOCUMENT.odt

Just saw that the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (2nd generation, Wireless) has been released. It's equipped with a quad-core CPU, but the RAM is still limited to 512MB. I began to wonder if it may be time to start migrating all of my Kodi-equipped Raspberry Pi 4 models to the zero, but the RAM could be a bit of an issue. Digging into the benchmark tests, I realized I don't have a central record of useful RasPi tools, so here it is.

First off, it's useful to know what you're Pi is running. The following command will provide details of about the CPU.

$ touch -t <YYYYDDDDHHMM>
$ touch -t 201106301416
$ touch -r <from_file> <to_file>

Since this blog is focused on the Darwin kernel of MacOS, I don't make many Windows-related posts. A couple of years ago, however, a friend pointed me to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, a Linux environment which can be installed on Windows 10 systems. You even have a choice of distros. I installed WSL on all of my lab computers, but the process is still a bit involved, so I thought I'd document it here.

When I attended the Teacher's Institute ad the ARRL, one of the items included in our swag bag was an Software Defined Receiver, specifically the SDRPlay RSP1A. Binaries for Windows and Mac OSX typically work "out of the box", but not so with the Linux version. The SDRPlay folks posted an excellent video tutorial covering the process of installing the necessary drivers and libraries, and building CubicSDR from source. Here's a summary.