Chris’ Miscellanea

  I was looking for the cause of a erratic jumping mouse cursor (about once every minute moving, clicking, …) when I suddenly realized that ...

Motorola C155, Rita XOUT between C132 and C210, 26 MHz nominal

Trnava, Slovakia , Wikipedia , Simple Wikipedia .

My new not-so-smart-phone: Motorola C123.

http://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everything.html

There’s currently a lot of very pretty snow around here.  I especially like the funny shapes the wind has created at one corner of the ho...

Mini-ITX in wooden box.

  Georgia, Germany , Ghana, …?

Today I read on tmbinc’s blog about how he modified a cheap Ethernet-switch to be VLAN capable. With VLANs you can fan out the single buil...

(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 ...