Rockblock satellite modem to Teensy MCU UART communication problem (multiple power sources)
I’m using an mk1 rockblock modem, which is using a sub 0,1″ connector, thus I got a special cable with the kind help of Rock7mobile. […]
Articles by Ch. Tronche
More on the pressure sensor, battery level display, satellite modem status LED, decoupling capacitors
Problems with the computation of pressure / altitude are solved (debugged with a mix of comparing the results with the Arduino output and using Bosch […]
GPS working
However, I’m switching to Adafruit integrated GPS + SD card reader for mechanical simplicity. I wrote the GPS reading / decoding software myself, very simple […]
IE with Linux
The fastest way to run ie inside Linux: ies4linux (google for it).
America Invents Act, business methods and software patents
You may know that America has a new legislation regarding patents, the America Invents Act. A remarkable part of it is sec 18. “TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM […]
PHP equivalent of python setattr
sets property name of obj to value in python. You can do the same in php with$obj->$name = value note the $ in front of […]
(solved) gpg-agent (or pinentry) + ssh (or su) not working on Linux / Unix
The case: you connect to a remote computer with ”ssh”, or may be you just do ”su” to become another unix user, then start something […]
readline() on closed filehandle FILES at /usr/sbin/popularity-contest line 104 (not solved yet, but at least we understand) and how popularity-contest works
This is bug [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/popularity-contest/+bug/742017 #742017] The solution is yet to be devised, but at least we know = How popularity-contest works = ”’popularity-contest”’ is a […]
IPv6 report at tronche.com for April 2011 is out.
Explanations and previous reports More graphical presentations from this report. A little of a surprise, at least for me, is that, although China consistently shows […]