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Today Google announced a public DNS service they are hosting. They claim that their DNS infrastructure is faster and more secure, because their servers do some clever things. I wanted to test their performance claims, so I wrote a little script to measure a lookup times for different domains across a number of DNS servers. Methodology ...

I have mentioned many times that I would like to know how much current something is drawing, so today Nic brought me a mains power meter. It is a very simple meter which plugs between the mains and the device and can measure volts, amps, watts, frequency, and a few other metrics. I decided to run ...