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- foo2svi
- A couple weeks ago my brother purchased a Samsung YP-P2, it's an mp3 player with video and bluetooth capabilities. It's a decent player but for some odd reason it ships with MTP mode enabled by default. This is rather annoying because it requires use of an application to transfer media files to the device. On [...]
- (Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:47:51 -0400)
- LIRC + Ubuntu 8.04 + Xbox DVD Playback Kit
- After upgrading to ubuntu 8.04 my favorite IR receiver stopped working The only clue was a mysterious error in my dmesg: lirc_atiusb[8]: inbound endpoint not found After a bunch of poking around it turns out that if the xpad module is loaded before lirc_atiusb then the latter module fails to access the device. As [...]
- (Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:24:58 -0400)
- Stop Swapping!
- At an MLUG meeting a few months ago someone mentioned a cool trick that can alleviate the pains of swapping. If you use a big app that forces you to run out of ram Linux will move some of the less used ram contents to your swap space (normally on your hard disk) to prevent [...]
- (Tue, 13 May 2008 14:50:44 -0400)
- Command Line TinyURL
- Here's a quick script I wrote to generate tinyurl.com URLs from the command line: #!/usr/bin/env python from urllib import urlopen import sys import re if len(sys.argv) != 2: sys.exit(1) page = urlopen('http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=' + sys.argv[1]) url = t_re = re.compile('
- (Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:20:26 -0400)
- RFID Enabled Credit Card Insecurities
- A while ago I blogged about my PayPass-enabled Mastercard which is essentially just an RFID chip implanted inside the card. Today on BoingBoing TV Xeni Jardin interviewed Pablos Holman about this payment method and how insecure it really is. Although the data in the RFID chip is apparently encrypted the PayPass reader decrypts the data before [...]
- (Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:16:40 -0400)
