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Using the XMEGA DMA controller

04/11/2011 – 11:47

Finally got the XMEGA DMA controller on an ATxmega128A3 working. There is not much example code for it and the datasheet is not very clear, so I wrote this. The datasheet and examples don’t really explain the terminology well. A transaction is the complete cycle of the DMA controller. To start a transaction you load [...]

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Democratic FAIL

31/10/2011 – 18:02

I made a couple of posts to Slashdot and decided to reproduce them here: I wrote to my last MP (free to do online via The Work For You) to complain about the ever increasing internet surveillance. In the letter I pointed out that saving a single life, or even many lives, is not [...]

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Google can’t spell

24/09/2011 – 23:06

Been a bit slow with updates lately. Anyway, apparently Google can’t spell: Google tries to make suggestions based on what it has scanned from web pages, but it seems that they didn’t filter out common errors… Google, U R TEH DUMB LOL Still, Google docs is excellent. Now you can upload any filetype I [...]

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Fixing PHP in HTML files on Knet

21/07/2011 – 18:52

Knet recently updated something and broke my .htaccess file which was allowing PHP in .html files. Spent ages looking for a solution and eventually found this on a random blog post: AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 /cgi-sys/php5 .php .htm .html Update 03/08/2011: They broke it again, this is now required to fix: AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .htm .html

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BBC twisting quotes again

30/06/2011 – 09:07

I had thought that maybe the problems with reporting the tsunami in Japan were partly due to the language barrier, but it looks to me more systematic than that. Spotted this gem today: Headline: ‘Full blown crisis’ Quote: “The good news is, they are not allowing it to become a full-blown crisis,” The headline implies [...]

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Fix for Aero dropping out on Windows 7

19/06/2011 – 16:37

Sometimes when my machine resumes from sleep mode Aero doesn’t work and I lose transparency etc. It seems to be related to nForce chipsets… Remind me never to get another one of those, they are buggy as hell. If you check the application event logs there is an error 0x8898009b from DWM. The fix is [...]

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Super injunctions and bloggers

23/05/2011 – 07:58

There appears to be a serious problem with super injunctions for bloggers. How can we comply with an injunction that is so secret we don’t even know it exists? I heard the other day that Ryan Giggs was having an affair. Let’s use him as an example; say he took out a super injunction to [...]

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Olympic Athlete’s Village site visit

21/03/2011 – 15:10

I visited the Athlete’s Village for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Not that much to see really, it is a building site… Behind schedule of course. The accommodation is the standard basic one floor apartment divided up with temporary partitions which will be removed before it is turned into council flats. From Olympic site [...]

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FON is rubbish

03/03/2011 – 13:18

I decided to set the old FON router up before my trip to Japan this year. The idea is that you share your broadband connection via a wifi hotspot that the FON router provides and in return you can use any FON hotspot worldwide. Before going I checked coverage. FON has done a deal with [...]

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Add Google Maps link to eBay listings

21/01/2011 – 16:43

Greasemonkey FTW. Add your location to the home declaration. // ==UserScript== // @name Ebay-Location-Route // @namespace www.ebay.de // @description Adds a link for the item location on google maps // @include http://*ebay.* // ==/UserScript== // Version 0.4 // author: knoe, fixes by MoJo //Configuration var home = “mah house”; //home var blank = false; [...]

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