On the Cutting Edge with the ESP32-S3
It’s been a while since I’ve posted – work and life have been busy! I’ve been dabbling with the new ESP32-S3 DevKitC boards from Espressif – I have the ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N8R2 […]
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The Tale of the Marquis de Inateck (4-Port USB 3.0 card)
Update: The replacement card has also disappeared from the PCI bus, both in Windows and when booted into Linux. So much for Inateck / Fresco Logic. I’m extremely disappointed. In […]
Arduino Star OTTO (Light): Updating the onboard ESP8266’s firmware
“An ESP8266? That’s easy! Feel free to follow along with my simple step by step instructions. I make codeloading FUN!!” (with apologies to Strong Bad) Beware: There be dragons here! While […]
Elementary! MySQL did it, in the CPU, with the the leap second!
I awoke to an alert from a small Ubuntu 12.04 server I have on Linode: lots of CPU usage this morning,which is odd since I haven’t logged in for a […]
Android, Eclipse, XML files and weird error messages
More than once, I’ve gotten the following weird problem when looking at an XML layout for Android in Eclipse: Failed to parse file C:\Eclipse_workspace\ButtonTest2\res\drawable\arrow_1.xml Exception details are logged in Window […]
Building the Android emulator for Windows
Today I’ve been investigating an argument parsing bug in Android’s emulator on Windows (a bug that may affect all platforms). The version I’m seeing the bug was in the Android […]
Windows: hybrid sleep and hibernation
With the latest Windows (Vista and 7) you can select “Hybrid Sleep” as a suspend mode. In essence, it provides the fast restart of your usual sleep mode with the […]
Pinging with Python
2015-05-28 update: Some of the old repos mentioned in this article are gone. You can check out Georgi Kolev’s repo (which has been recently updated) or my older one. Jens […]
New (old?) Twitter password stealer making the rounds…
If you click a Twitter link and it sends you to a Twitter login page, beware… look closely at the address bar and ensure you’re actually at Twitter’s login page […]
Moved to a new webhost as well as a new VPS host!
I have two online hosting systems I routinely use: one is a VPS that I use for things like secure proxy (mostly to secure insecure wireless connections) and otherwise keeping […]
Problems updating/installing samba4 in Ubuntu 11.04? Read here!
I recently upgraded my Ubuntu installation from 10.10 to 11.04 and the samba4 package had big problems being updated or installed. I finally found a way to properly install it, […]
Worthwhile reading for current or potential 64-bit developers…
I read this CodeProject article today and found it quite enlightening with regard to the pitfalls of 64-bit programing for those used to 32-bit programming. It’s well worth a read […]
Process Output Logging in Linux and Windows
As I was updating this Wikia page, I added a section about how to create a simple logfile. I thought it’d be useful to expand upon the subject here. Sometimes […]
Adventures Building GCC 4.6.0 for Cygwin
I decided I wanted to try out GCC using Cygwin rather than my usual Ubuntu virtual machine. In the course of this adventure I learned how to build GCC 4.6.0 […]