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Here is various information on the Raspberry Pi.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=753416

And while not directly related to the Raspberry Pi, I will need to look at Perl IPC in order to migrate the router switching program over.

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlipc.html
http://search.cpan.org/~andya/IPC-ShareLite-0.17/lib/IPC/ShareLite.pm

I need to take a deeper look at Selenium to see if it can be used to automate pulling web metrics.

http://seleniumhq.org/
https://github.com/aivaturi/Selenium-Remote-Driver
http://search.cpan.org/~mattp/Test-WWW-Selenium-1.34/lib/WWW/Selenium.pm

On occasion, after navigating (in explorer) to a folder on the network containing images or video then navigate back out of the folder, and attempt to delete the folder, the following occurs

"The action can't be completed because the file is open in Windows Explorer. Close the file and try again."

"Thumbs.db" ... etc

Numerous solutions have been discussed, however, for my purposes, simply disabling the use of thumbs.db has been the best.  Here's how it is done:

· Click the Start orb
· Enter gpedit.msc in the search box and hit Enter.
· Expand User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Windows Components.
· Click on Windows Explorer.
· Right-click the entry "Turn off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files" and choose Edit.
· Enable the setting.

dd if=/dev/random of=/device/path bs=512 count=1024

Ran into a solution for finding all active IP's in a subnet.  This is a very effecient (fast) solution *and* can be run against subnets that the machine isn't connected to.

arp-scan -I lan0 192.168.0.0/24

or

arp-scan -I lan0 192.168.0.0/16