Category: Soft.ware
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JesusPhone 5 day one
So as some in my “social circle” already know I finally started cheating on Android and got a JesusPhone 5. Here’s some first impressions, granted, I am being rather critical here, I am actually so far quite happy with the iPhone 5…though if you’re an iPhone 4S or 4 user it might not be worth […]
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ASN.1, or how to make a binary protocol definition the easy way…
Most people aren’t familiar at all with ASN.1, and some that are, have NO clue they’re looking at ASN.1 – SNMP MIBs are all written as ASN.1 definitions. I’m embarking on a new project and need to define a client/server protocol. I could build my own binary protocol, which I’ve done in the past. I […]
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Linux (UNIX in general) TTY/console demystified
I don’t quite know how I know but I know very well how the Linux TTY/Console driver stack works… Probably through so many years of slogging through code, and through tearing apart the Linux TTY drivers and line discipline stacks a few times for special projects and definitely with some help of the LDD3 (a […]
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Pretty Correct Colors!
First off lets go back about a week in time… I am NOT a GUI guy, photo guy, etc. I traditionally have been a systems administrator, lately I’ve gone more whole hog into web application development. But I still don’t do UI. So color has never really felt that important to me. I know my […]
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An attempt to explain IPv6 and IP Routing to the layperson
Me again, yup. Been a while eh? Well, I’ve been busy. Rebuilding a pretty big site essentially from scratch. Trust me, I have plenty of things to rant about! This post though I hope to be another informative, less ranting, post about IPv6. I keep seeing a LOT of well meaning but mis-informed or mis-understood […]
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About Open Software Ecosystems
Many people make a big deal about open source and open software. But FAR more important than that is open standards for hardware and software and *portability* for software. The game console platform industry has shown this quite clearly. With the advent of higher performance consoles, and more portable coding games now often release on […]