After watching a wonderful documentary on Antarctica on MOJO TV, I decided to do some more up-to-date research on what the scientific community has to say about global warming. In my opinion, the only real source we can/should reference is the National Environment Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) and the National Climatic Data Center [...]
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Dell PowerEdge vs HP Proliant - Firmware Updates
Posted in geek on Oct 12th, 2008
When it comes to server maintenance, there is nothing quite as useful as bootable media which contains a bundle of firmware updates. I realize centrally-managed server-maintenance environments are sexy, but there are always times when you need to power down a box and install firmware updates.
So whats the story with Dell vs. HP? Each company [...]
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”. [...]
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 [...]