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Upgrade FrSky D4R-II without a USB FTDI adapter using a RS232 COM serial port

Posted on February 20, 2015 by cyclingengineer

I’ve just bought a D4R-II receiver supporting telemetry. This is a great little small, lightweight receiver that can be easily flashed to support full frame 8 channel CPPM output. You can get the software and manual from the FrSky website … Continue reading →

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Accessing partitions within an image or LVM volume used as an iSCSI target

Posted on May 17, 2013 by sillyscientist

I recently reinstalled the software on my NAS (open media vault) and tidied up the host name etc. As part of this I changed the name of the iSCSI target. This meant that my media PC wouldn’t boot over the … Continue reading →

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XBMC Frodo for Legacy AMD Graphics Cards (pre 5xxx)

Posted on February 15, 2013 by sillyscientist

Apparently AMD/ATI graphics cards less than 5xxx series have been left behind in the latest drivers. This is a bit of a pain for me as I have a 24xx series in my media PC. I tried the stock XBMCbuntu … Continue reading →

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MediaPC in a Xen Virtual Machine

Posted on December 19, 2012 by sillyscientist

The aim of this project was to get my MediaPC running as a VM host. This would allow me to run instances alongside my MediaPC, thus giving me a platform to experiment and develop things without having to setup separate machines etc. … Continue reading →

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Indefero errors fatal: bad argument fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Posted on September 27, 2012 by sillyscientist

I was trying to commit something to my Indefero project management server today and was getting the following error: fatal: bad argument fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly I puzzled around for a while and then tried manually logging … Continue reading →

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Getting JetPack working

Posted on August 14, 2012 by sillyscientist

I had two issues with JetPack – but I finally got it working. Issue one –  Jetpack could not contact WordPress.com: register_http_request_failed. This usually means something is incorrectly configured on your web host. Operation timed out after 15000 milliseconds with … Continue reading →

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Lenovo USB Modem in Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)

Posted on June 23, 2012 by sillyscientist

I recently bought a Lenovo USB modem for some experiments in telephony that I am working on. I want it to work on Linux. It is based on the Conexant RD02-D400 device. When plugging it in I get the following … Continue reading →

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Pairing Apple 1st Gen Keyboard (A1016) with Windows 7

Posted on June 5, 2012 by sillyscientist

I was having some errors pairing the Apple 1st Gen bluetooth keyboard to my media centre. I discovered that you need todo the following: Turn on the keyboard Open up Bluetooth ‘Add Devices’ and wait for windows to discover the … Continue reading →

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Can you crack it? Stage 3 solution

Posted on December 3, 2011 by sillyscientist

Once getting through stage 2 you will have an EXE file. It requires windows (I ran it in a VirtualBox VM seeing as I had no idea what it would do – can’t be too careful!), cygwin and the crypt library … Continue reading →

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Create a PDF of images (PNG, JPG, GIF etc) on Mac OS X with Preview

Posted on July 28, 2011 by sillyscientist

I recently wanted to compile several images into a single PDF document – after searching for a relevant tool and discounting Word or iWork as too time consuming I hit upon the following very simple solution… Open one of the … Continue reading →

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