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DangerRuss Things: August 2013
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Software. firmware. hardware. crazy hair.]. Friday, 23 August 2013. Resurrecting the OS-9/68K (OSK) kernel using the FAME 68K Emulator. The Motorola 68000, sadly, is mostly a relic nowadays. It had a beautiful instruction set and a clean architecture, from software all the way down to the bus protocols. Alas, all good things must pass. However, there was a damn good. Operating system written for this CPU which I just can't stand. Systems, the Sharp X68000. Series in Japan, and the Fairlight/CMI. The folk...
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DangerRuss Things: July 2014
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Software. firmware. hardware. crazy hair.]. Friday, 18 July 2014. Google Yanks Yet Another Useful Feature with No Warning: Labs "Add any gadget by URL". Boo Google, boo. Well, if anyone needed another example of why it's just a bad idea to rely on Google APIs for anything important, here's another one. Today I saw a teensy note appear at the top of my gmail announcing the Labs "Add any gadget by URL" gadget is being deprecated. Info Sigh. I get the feeling the entire gadget API has been left out to d...
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DangerRuss Things: March 2012
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Software. firmware. hardware. crazy hair.]. Monday, 5 March 2012. More Useful References for SMD Package Codes. I'd posted a while back about the subtleties of choosing SMD parts and the voodoo involved in interpreting those packages. just thought I'd post some links here to some documents I found that might be worth saving and/or referring to in the future. A good explanation of various packages and many, many tables of codes. The SMD Code Book. Friday, 2 March 2012. Dealing With Peak I/O. Has a nice st...
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DangerRuss Things: November 2013
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Software. firmware. hardware. crazy hair.]. Wednesday, 27 November 2013. Gmail Hashcash Notifications To Your Phone. Gmail Inbox Setup for Hashcash Notifications To Your Phone. If you install my Hashcash for Gmail. Google script to scan and validate your incoming email according to the presence or absence of hashcash stamps, and you just want notifications for verified emails coming in, you can tweak how the inbox notifies you on your mobile phone. Here's one possible setup:. Monday, 18 November 2013.
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DangerRuss Things: Gmail Hashcash Notifications To Your Phone
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Software. firmware. hardware. crazy hair.]. Wednesday, 27 November 2013. Gmail Hashcash Notifications To Your Phone. Gmail Inbox Setup for Hashcash Notifications To Your Phone. If you install my Hashcash for Gmail. Google script to scan and validate your incoming email according to the presence or absence of hashcash stamps, and you just want notifications for verified emails coming in, you can tweak how the inbox notifies you on your mobile phone. Here's one possible setup:. Doing things the hard way so...
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DangerRuss Things: mt-crypt - a simple stream cipher based on the Mersenne Twister PRNG
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Software. firmware. hardware. crazy hair.]. Saturday, 11 January 2014. Mt-crypt - a simple stream cipher based on the Mersenne Twister PRNG. It's often said: "Anyone can write a crypto algorithm they can't break themselves". True enough, but that doesn't mean it should be forbidden to study or write crypto software because, well, one isn't an expert in studying or writing crypto software - that would be a Catch-22 of sorts. What's the entry point then, for someone who wants to understand? I'm not saying ...
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DangerRuss Things: Tugging at the chains 'twixt myself and The Cloud
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Software. firmware. hardware. crazy hair.]. Monday, 18 November 2013. Tugging at the chains 'twixt myself and The Cloud. Otherwise, less poetically-entitled: Screw you, NSAGoogle. I'll make my own damn webmail, with blackjack and hookers. Thing is, I actually -want- the webmail too. Really.]. 2013-11-18: experiments setting up my own webmail server with IMAP and (eventually) OSS webmail client access. Part I: The MTA and IMAP service ( dovecot. Part II: Webmail client for easy access anywhere (TODO).
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DangerRuss Things: ZINK hAppy Printer Setup on Windows 7
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Software. firmware. hardware. crazy hair.]. Thursday, 26 November 2015. ZINK hAppy Printer Setup on Windows 7. ZINK Imaging Inc. makes some neat devices, the hAppy and hAppy , which are basically super-fancy labelmakers. From what I understand the company was founded by refugees from Kodak after they shut down the Polaroid division, just after they had developed a cool new digital version of the Polaroid process. The only issue was that ZINK doesn't officially ship or publish *any* Windows USB drivers!
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DangerRuss Things: January 2014
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Software. firmware. hardware. crazy hair.]. Saturday, 11 January 2014. Mt-crypt - a simple stream cipher based on the Mersenne Twister PRNG. Its often said: Anyone can write a crypto algorithm they cant break themselves. True enough, but that doesnt mean it should be forbidden to study or write crypto software because, well, one isnt an expert in studying or writing crypto software - that would be a Catch-22 of sorts. Whats the entry point then, for someone who wants to understand? One learns by doing.
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