Chris’ Miscellanea

(as seen on a car on the grocery’s parking lot)

I installed the new and shiny Ubuntu Karmic on my computer today. Now there’s a speciality: I run the same installation (on a 2nd harddrive...

Opera just announced the existence of a upgrade to it. I told it to proceed, shorty after I noticed my (usually silent) PC to spin its fans ...

One of the reference values is much  too low, note the brown and crispy Zener.       Update: Looks very shitty, but it works. I’ll repl...

I spent a little while debugging my microcontroller code.

Success! Even though I’m still scratching my head about the funny memory layout in graphics mode when using a 6x8 font. Time to read...

New project: Using a Atmel ATmega168 to control a graphical Everbouquet LCD that itself uses a T6963C Controller. Right now it seems that ...

Currently on vacation.

After fighting with Linux's v4l2, alsa, pulseaudio, mencoder, mjpegfoobarblahblubbtools etc.. I just borrowed one of those. Probably it...

I started playing around with a breadboard. Until now, I never had done this, but I have to say, it’s kind of convenient. The only downside:...

It hums. And I’m annoyed.   What did I do on Saturday? Well, via the wonder of the web, I watched my friend burn both himself and his ...

Our junta of incompetent politicians have passed the law that will now introduce censorship in Germany. Ignorant assholes.

Just a quick note about the harm that you can suffer, should you try to install the “dmraid” package in your linux distribution: It’s EVIL! ...

There’s a post over at slashdot about the Twitpocalypse … What it’s supposed to mean is that twitter, this stream of useless short-messages ...

I put some of my electronics garbage to good use, this pretty instrument was salvaged from the dumpster a long time ago. It displays Neper ...

It might not be one with the most highbrow lyrics, but The Pirate Bay now has an anthem! YouTube Video , PirateBay News , mp3 torrent .

I got myself a new mascot. Somehow reminds me of the fabulous Creatures In My Head . Previously.