Author Archives: adq

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 supported as the manufacturer (Ricoh) won’t release the docs. I won’t be having this. The SD support is possible because the card uses theContinue reading “Ricoh media reader under linux”

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 orthogonal to standard row oriented DBMSes. “Normal” DBMSes are row based: they store each row of a table as a contiguous record. Column oriented databases store eachContinue reading “Column oriented DBMS”

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 platforms). This seems the ideal solution to the problem of multiple codecs to me: the server takes care of translating from theContinue reading “gadgetgadgetgadgetgadget”

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 with it now; I think I’ll fix up the linux software to handle it properly (I believe ethereal/wireshark can alreadyContinue reading “Bluetooth sniffing”