Abrasive waterjet machining
As I currently can't sleep AGAIN due to reading too many interesting things AGAIN and then thinking too much, here is ANOTHER interesting thing. Soon no one will sleep! :) A friend sent me this page a…
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Ricoh media reader under linux
Oh dear, oh dear, looks like I'm finally back to reverse engineering things again. The media reader in my new laptop supports MMC/SD/MemoryStick/XD cards. However under linux, only SD cards are suppor…
Column oriented DBMS
I've been investigating Column Oriented DBMS systems today. These are designed for data warehousing applications (as opposed to transactional processing). They use a data storage mechanism which is or…
gadgetgadgetgadgetgadget
Behold my latest gadget: . It is a Squeezebox, a thin client music playback system; music is streamed from my flat server running the squeezebox daemon (which is opensource and available on many platf…
Bluetooth sniffing
I'm finally starting to feel like low level hardware things again at long last. Following the vague instructions here I now have a functional bluetooth sniffer for free! I'm not sure quite what to do…