My graphic card felt hot to the touch, it needed some cooling. This is not an advanced card, so there is no on card fan. Continue reading ‘A fan for my graphic card’
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
This modem uses the 450 MHz band for wireless internet access. In Scandinavia this mobile internet access network is operated by ice.net. The following rules and scripts constitute an auto-dialer: when the USB modem is inserted the system automatically connects to the network. Continue reading ‘Auto dial for C-motech D-50 modem’
This is a simple domain-name server for an embedded system in a closed local network. Originally called the Severely Crippled Domain Name Server, this server is now the name server of Busybox.
The purpose of this name server is to give the embedded controller a name, so if connecting a laptop for configuration and other maintenance, the controller provides the laptop with its name so the user can access by name instead of IP number.
Bison is a compiler-compiler which generates a parser basedon a grammar specification. The parser usually runs in a loopgetting new tokens from a lexical scanner.
This push parser works the other way around by letting thescanner call the parser each time a new token is available.
The copyright of this parser skeleton has been transferred to the Free Software Foundation and is now integrated with the Bison project.
Hamsters are very active animals. When kept in cages they often have access to a running wheel. They spend much of their nights running this wheel. But how far do they actually run? Continue reading ‘How far does a dwarf-hamster run during a night?’
Structured modelling of fishphysiology (1 MB). Dr thesis 1989. Continue reading ‘Structured modelling of fish physiology’
This PC is built into a very simple case: a ring binder. The PC is anembedded controller – not used by humans but independently doing its specialunsupervised job. In this case it wakes up once a day, takes a picturewith a USB camera, stores it and then powers off again. Continue reading ‘The ring binder PC’
