Let it snow
Let it snow…. … and the snow was on. This is a preview of Let it snow. Read the full post (113 words, 1 image, estimated 27 secs reading time) Read more
How to install Twidge on centos
Last week I needed to install twidge on a centos 5.7 server. Truly, twidge is very simple to install into debian (or derived) linux distribution, but I found some problems while installing it into my centos server. First of... Read more Twidge: A flexible way to gain the access to Twitter resources
Twidge is a full command-line client. It is designed to be useful when you’re sitting at a shell prompt. It’s also designed to work well with the Unix/POSIX/Linux shell scripting environment. It produces output in well-formed and easily-parsed ways,... Read more
Adsense disappeared on wordpress blog [solved]
During last week I've had problems showing adsense advs on this blog. Truly I couldn't show the advs on the wordpress platform, while I was able to show them in a simple html pages. First I tried to change... Read more
2 tricks to be happy while running Ubuntu 11.10 on your laptop
Ubuntu 11.10 is great OS but it has some things to change, especially if you want to work on a laptop. The first one is the battery drain, if you don't use any tricks Ubuntu can drain your battery... Read more
The second release candidate of Arduino 1.0 is available
Arduino1 Summary of changes in Arduino 1.0. Download The second release candidate of Arduino 1.0 is available (as of October 25, 2011): Windows: http://files.arduino.cc/downloads/arduino-1.0-rc2.zip Mac OS X: http://files.arduino.cc/downloads/arduino-1.0-rc2.dmg Linux (32-bit): http://files.arduino.cc/downloads/arduino-1.0-rc2.tgz Linux (64-bit): http://files.arduino.cc/downloads/arduino-1.0-rc2-64.tgz Source: http://files.arduino.cc/downloads/arduino-1.0-rc2-src.tar.gz The source code is hosted in the... Read more Ubuntu 9.10: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5
Under Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10 the entrypoints for libinfo are part of ncurses. The libtinfo.so functionality is built into the libncurses.so shared library. So for software that uses the libtinfo.so object you need to install ncurses. I... Read more
The USB Dual Voltage Power Supply (3,3/5 V) for breadboards is finally here
Yes it's here. The PCB and all components are here and we have mounted them. All the tests have been passed, and now we can use the power supply adapter for our projects. We have also tested the version... Read more
Ten GCC optimization flags that must be known
The GCC provides the capability to generate optimized compiled code. When you are running gcc to compile your code you can choose between a large number of optimization levels using the following switches: This is a preview of Ten... Read more
How to create a ramdisk on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
From the wikipedia "A RAM disk or RAM drive is a block of RAM that a computer's software is treating as if the memory were a disk drive. …. …. …. This is a preview of How to create... Read more
A good hack for a sad street
Sometimes the local administration of my small town has good ideas, this time they launched a competition for writers, they gave the writers an entire underpass to show their arts, and now a very very very sad underpass is... Read moreSep
07
2011
UNIX Shared Memories
SHARED MEMORY Shared Memory is an efficient way to pass data between programs. One program creates a shared memory that can be accessed by other processes. A process creates a shared memory segment using shmget(). The original owner of... Read moreJul
20
2011
Qt 4.7.1 for QNX.
Qt 4.7.1 is available for QNX Neutrino From the wikipedia: This is a preview of Qt 4.7.1 for QNX.. Read the full post (495 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time) Read moreJul
17
2011
Curtiss-Wright introduces its Fermi-architecture NVIDIA® GPGPU OpenVPX™ Engine
Introducing the Industry’s First Fermi-architecture NVIDIA® GPGPU OpenVPX™ Engine The VPX6-490 GPU Application Accelerator features dual NVIDIA® Fermi-architecture GPU processors, each with 240 cores. Integrated into a High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) subsystem, VPX6-490 functions as a co-processor... Read moreJul
14
2011
Simple traffic analyzer script
When you are working on embedded systems you couldn't have some useful tools to monitor the system resource; In the following you will find a simple shell script I use when I want to monitor the network traffic on... Read more
Using a linux box as a bridge
A bridge is a way to connect more than one Ethernet segments together in a protocol independent way. Packets are forwarded based on Ethernet address, rather than IP address (like a router does). Since forwarding is done at Layer 2, all... Read moreJun
23
2011
The Zigbee revealed – 2 MiWi A competitor
MiWi and MiWi P2P are proprietary wireless protocols designed by Microchip Technology that uses small, low-power digital radios based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for wireless personal area networks (WPANs). This is a preview of The Zigbee revealed... Read moreJun
17
2011
