Sunday, March 27, 2011
Harddisk woes
I'm currently debugging a problem with SATA harddrives in a NAS and there is a certain series of SAMSUNG drives that have a nasty data corruption problem.
In short, it means that you have to run a DOS(!) program to upgrade your harddisk firmware! The amount of workarounds and kludges to get this running on my main PC (with a rather picky BIOS) is really staggering.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Radiation
These are old pictures from when we visited the AKR2 reactor at the university of Dresden in March 2009.
Friday, March 11, 2011
eBay and PayPal suck
tl;dr: Today I tried to pay via PayPal for the first time in my life, it’s broken and sucks really hard.
In principle there should be the possibility to pay “via paypal” using only your bankaccount or credit card, but if you try to, you find out that the system is completely broken.
First, it only reloaded endlessly when trying to switch from eBay to the paypal-page in the Opera Browser.
Then, using the Idiot’s Browser™, I finally was able to pay using my bank-acocunt. Or so I thought. Every attempt I made, using the bank-account or two credit cards was greeted with a different uninformative error message, and yes, I triple-checked everything and there was no typo involved (especially in the AMEX case).
It completely eludes me how such a horribly idiotic system could rise to be a major payment processor.
<end of rant>
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
DVB Streaming…
dvblast is kind of neat… :-) Streaming 4 programmes (one DVB-T transponder/frequency) to a windows machine running 4 vlc decoders.
$ dvblast –c dvblast_746000000.conf –f 746000000 –b 8
$ cat dvblast_746000000.conf
# arte
arte:239.0.0.1:4008 1 2
# Phoenix
239.0.0.1:4009 1 3
# EinsPlus
239.0.0.1:4010 1 6
# Das_Erste
239.0.0.1:4011 1 32
The corresponding “channel.conf” can be found on the VDR Wiki.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Damn it, it’s 2010!
I was looking for the cause of a erratic jumping mouse cursor (about once every minute moving, clicking, …) when I suddenly realized that I had a GPS receiver still connected to a USB/serial adapter on the Windows machine. Cut that shit off, Microsoft! It’s 2010, no one is using serial mice anymore. And anyone who still does can sure be bothered to install the f*cking driver themselves!
Update: It’s a feature of the FTDIchip USB-to-serial driver and documented in the manual for the advanced driver options:
To disable auto detect, go to the device properties, advanced, and uncheck the “serial enumerator” feature.
Sunday, May 09, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Snow
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 house.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
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