Slackware Linux on an Acer UX21A
published at Sun Mar 17 19:59:53 2013 in linux
I switched to an Acer UX21A after my old 11 inch sony laptop committed suicide. The device is well built and Linux runs very well on this machine....» Read 5202 more bytes
HTC One X Jellybean builds (almost AOSP)
published at Sun Aug 26 17:10:04 2012 in android
I've started a friendly fork of Tom Gascoignes [github] |
[XDA thread] AOSP Jellybean port to the HTC One X.
My build is based on his github repo (it even uses the same manifest file) but implements a few minor changes: Volume Rocker: Ability to skip a music track while the screen is off using the vol +/- buttons Avoid flip: Setting to disable the annoying 180° screen rotation
Precompiled builds Build #3 (20121029) Based on TG#36, includes latest android updates
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Unrestricted OpenWRT builds for the Netgear WNDR3700v2
published at Sat Aug 18 12:34:32 2012 in misc
I've started to compile OpenWRT for my Netgear WNDR3700v2 myself as the OpenWRT team seems to enjoy to criple their own builds.
In the good old days, you could enable WIFI channel 12 and 13 by updating the 'regulatory.bin' file after installing OpenWRT.
However: For some unknown reason the OpenWRT developers decided to break this feature, the only option left is to recompile OpenWRT with 'CONFIG_ATH_USER_REGD=y'. Thanks a bunch!
Yes, i'm pissed, so i've uploaded my collection of my...
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BitTorrent specification mess
published at Sun May 27 15:10:31 2012 in software
I am the author of a (rather unpopular ;-)) BitTorrent client called Bitflu and started to notice
that the protocol specification went from 'very good' to 'bad' in the last few months. Sometimes there are undocumented features/extensions, sometimes it's just hard to find the location of the documentation.
This small page attempts to collect and extend the BitTorrent protocol documentation. Bencoding All clients need to implement some encoding called Bencoding (it's like a binary form of XML). This i...
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What's inside a Nokia 100?
published at Wed Feb 29 17:17:59 2012 in misc
I got myself one of these very cheap nokia 100 (about 30$) phones and wondered
how it looks inside.
The phone itself is made out of 100% plastic - but feels OK for this price:
Battery removed:
The good news is: Opening it does not require a special tool.
The bad news is: The phone is held together by plastic latches.
Bummer: Nothing exciting - i didn't bother to remove the heatsink and the only interesting part (JTAG) was already accessible.
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torrent tool
published at Sun Nov 6 19:09:37 2011 in misc/hacks
Verify existing files using a torrent
I just had a nice (btrfs related) crash while copying some finished torrents to my primary workstation (and file vault). The crash happened (of course) just after i've deleted the files from the source server but was soon enough to cause corruption as most of the data was still stored on RAM :-/
So i've hacked a small tool called torrent-tool (download at github) How does it work You can use the --show parameter to check an existing torrent file: $ ./torre...
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Changing the stylus pressure on a technics sl-7 turntable
published at Sun Sep 25 17:46:27 2011 in misc
I own an old Technics SL-7 and was (until recently) not smart enough to change the stylus pressure — even after reading the manual (you can download the sl-7 manual from here btw...)
The magic screw is located on the right side (the location in the manual is therefore completly wrong ;-) )
and the pressure can be changed by ±0.25g:
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The Economist cache
published at Fri Sep 23 09:41:14 2011 in android
The Economist provides a nice Android application, however: the cache contents (saved on the sd-card by the application) are 'encrypted' for some silly reason.
We will fix that within a few minutes.
Analyzing the data
The 'encrypted' data is stored at /your/phone/com.economist/library/$date, let us have a look at some cached files:
$ hexdump -C 20110813_AMC392.gif|head -5
00000000 c7 c9 c6 b8 b9 e1 ac 81 b5 81 77 80 80 95 8e 87 |ÇÉƸ¹á¬.µ.w.....|
00000010 99 93 8b a2 9c 95 a7 a2 9c ae aa a4 b5 b1 ac...» Read 2844 more bytes