As a part of my work with the MSR206 I needed to write some small scripts and command lines to help deal with binary data. Using vi(1) or emacs(1) just seemed too cumbersome for the lightweight data which I was analyzing, so I wrote some simple command lines to assist.
hexlate
The first one I call “hexlate”. [...]
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
I finally made time to work a bit more on the magstripe project with my MSR206. Instead of going hog-wild and finishing/polishing dmsr206.pl reference tool like in a previous post, I decided to just make a few scripts with rudimentary functionality. With this dmsr-2.1.tar.bz2 you can erase, read, and write ISO standard data, which is [...]
Brief Background on R(B)DS
Traffic Message Channel, or TMC, is a method, or technology by which traffic data is delivered to receivers which then convert this data to pertinent, geographic-based traffic-information. While there are a handful transmission methods on which TMC is delivered such as XM and MSN Direct, the only one I will cover today [...]
pyTivo on Western Digital MyBook World Edition
Posted in BitTorrent, geek, tv, video on Sep 10th, 2008
I had this idea the other day that I could hack my Western Digital MyBook World Edition (mybook), install pyTivo, and setup an all-inclusive storage and HMO/GoBack platform for my Series3. BitTorrent from my workstation to a CIFS share on the mybook, and then stream from the mybook to the series3.
So here we go, torrent [...]
Who knows what this guy was thinking when he was parking his car. Late for a meeting? Bad hair day? Either way he tries to fit a Renault Megane into a spot that is a hair bigger than a Mini. The most awesome part about it is that after he realizes that theres no way [...]