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Banana Screen 1 2 1 Full

BananaScreen 1.2.1 description BananaScreen is a fun and easy solution to lock and unlock your computer using only your face BananaScreen will automatically lock your computer when you move away from it. When you come back, BananScreen unlocks your computer in less time than it would take to enter your password. How does BananaScreen work? With a simple webcam, facial features are captured to build a statistical representation of the face. No picture is stored on your harddrive (or anywhere else) but only your face model (binary format). System requirements: - A correctly configured webcam - 5MB on your harddrive Download Size 3.29 MB pconly.wordpress.com

Banana Pi M3 v1 2 First Tests

This is a short summary of my experience with my newly obtained Banana Pi M3 (v.1.2) board.  I am touching on the following topics, Operating systems Installing an OS on the internal eMMC storage (no SD cards finally!) Expanding the file system to the whole eMMC size The  Hardware What power supply to get Read & Write speeds from/to 2.5" HDD Encrypted containers and their speeds Temperatures Passive cooling with heat sink Forced cooling with a small USB fan Controlling CPU frequency to limit heat generation So three weeks ago on Thursday I have received my Banana Pi M3 v.1.2 board. In my excitement - despite not having slept enough for the previous 2 weeks - I have started to write OS .img files to different SD cards to quickly try out my new toy before going to bed. Well, long story short I have managed to dd my laptops / (/home was on a separate partition, so it was not a major issue, but still annoying). To reinstall so I had to burn some of those DVD things that were s...