Chris’ Miscellanea

I'm a little annoyed by the limitations of the M-Audio Fast-Track Pro, so I'm thinking about how to mod it. My main grief is the aby...

Archlinux for me seems to miss any magic  that takes care of automatically providing the correct keymap to xorg's input driver . To mak...

Got myself Win8 for €30 (upgrade from a old Student-for-Free Vista license I never used, instead of €150 it looked like a bargain). My norma...

A friendly colleague gave me a Betty Remote . It's a marvelous device as a dirt-cheap ARM7 (LPC2200) eval board and flashing worked so ...

Update (November 2016):  Archlinux on the Toradex T20 (with Archlinux' kernel) A lot of people got hold of a Toradex T20 board which w...

Today I disassembled a MOTU 882 MK2 Audio Interface that exhibited significantly increased noise on one of the microphone preamplifier input...

It's not rocket science, but it took me a while to collect all the pieces, so here's a short summary, mainly to serve as a reminder ...

I just spent about one hour looking for a small tool (i.e. NOT starting libreoffice and putting a picture on a empty page, export as pdf) t...

Found this ancient (well... almost, it's from about 1982) chip at work. It's a development version for applications where a mask-pro...

I know that you missed it since the day Xorg switched to an all-black default background.   $ xsetroot -fg black -bg white \ ...

I currently have a iBook-G4 on my desk, running Linux. Everything is dandy, only a few things with the keyboard are odd. Two keys are swappe...

Things I learnt about my dishwasher today: It has a Mitsubishi M38503M4-722FP micro controller with 512 byte RAM and 16kByte of mask-pr...

Hey, Xilinx. Thanks for giving out your FPGA development environment for free (as in beer) and all... but seriously WTF: Since I downloaded ...

To replace my current network router, I'm planning to maybe put a Raspberry Pi in the case of a Cobalt RaQ I have standing around sinc...

Hey, Markus, I can foodblog, too.

Sometimes kernel-development happens at the pace of glacial advance... Here's an example: This kernel patch , which makes a FastTrack...

I’m currently on a shopping-spree on eBay. There are certain categories of slightly outdated equipment that frequently contain amazing thing...

Holidays, and unfortunately picasaweb does not allow me to upload these panoramic pictures :-(, so off to ipernity it goes...

(artefact on the upper left is due to me adding a “filler” photo shot from a slightly different position…)

Just don’t ask why. I got myself a new video camera ! ( Previously )