Posted in General rambling on Aug 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Looks like Comcast are trying really hard to destroy what little of a reputation they have left, as this posting from the PICLIST shows. Basic story is, guy calls Comcast to complain about his phones showing as “disconnected”. They (Comcast) sent out a line tech, who found a Cat5 network cable and chopped it into [...]
Posted in Computers, Security on Aug 25th, 2006 No Comments »
(thanks to BoingBoing for the lead on this) Looks like nearly all of the presentations/talks that took place at HOPE 6 are available for download from the website. Shame the presentation slides aren’t available though – a lot of the more in-depth presentations (digital forensics, crypto, protocol design, etc) are pretty much unintelligible without the [...]
Posted in Electronics on Aug 22nd, 2006 2 Comments »
I’m sure at least some of you have seen the graphics LCD driver code that was published on FPGA4Fun.com. Over the past few months, I’ve been (slowly) improving it to drive more LCDs, and I think I’ve finally succeeded. I spent a couple of hours on Saturday night reading up on the LCD controller integrated [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2006 No Comments »
My computer, which has given sterling service for just over 15 months, is now on the blink. More specifically, the monitor is on its way out. Yep, the Mitsubishi 74SB I paid £160 for three years ago is on its last legs. The antiglare coating is failing, and now the display’s flickering and shimmering too. [...]
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