Raspberry Pi Lego Cases

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Here are a few random links with information about Raspberry Pi cases.

Using the lego case model above as a starting point, along with the measurements from the other links, I'm going to try to work up my own Lego case.

SSH Compression

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I still haven't gotten around to testing Dropbear but I did find that SSH has built-in compression that can improve performance over slow links.  So using the command: 

ssh -X -C user@host

Creates an X tunnel with compression which is much more usable for me.  It's still a bit slow but it is slow even on my LAN.  I'm still planning to see if Dropbear can squeeze a little more performance out of my old netbook.  Ultimately I don't think the Raspberry Pi will be much more powerful (if at all) than my netbook so every bit of performace optimization will help.

Dropbear SSH

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I don't really know what, if anything I'm going to do with this blog.  Probably nothing.  But for now, I'm going to use it as a public place to dump things that are interesting to me. For example I've been looking forward to the upcoming release of the Raspberry Pi.  I dug out my old Eee PC 701 netbook to start working on a few of my ideas for these little things.  I'm not sure performance-wise how they compare but the netbook is really feeling slow these days.  I just tried running firefox on it from work via SSH X forwarding and it was pretty much unusable.  I'm sure my home uplink speed is part of the issue but it seems like 1.5Mps should be adequate.  It's faster from a local LAN connection but still not great. Which brings me to the inspiration for this post.  I just stumbled across Dropbear on the rpi forums.  It's supposed to be a less resource intensive than OpenSSH.  I'll give it a try on the eeepc and if there is a noticeable difference I'll be sure to use it on the rpi.