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 [...]
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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 [...]
Tables aren’t exactly the most interesting thing on my blog usually, but I just simply *had* to post this. Take a look at this table. Upon rotation, it grows and shrinks using geometry and gearing. Simply amazing.
Time has really flown for me since I first received my U.S. Robotics Palm 5000. I still remember my father asking me, “Now what are you going to use THAT for?” Garnet OS (Palm OS) has lasted about 12 years now, and is still (imho) the single most versatile OS for a phone. [...]