One thing the Android world is not short of is binary calculators but I required one with very specific functionality and behaviour. Hence ByteSplorer, available from Google Play or a direct download here. ByteSplorer shows how the byte may be … Continue reading
Fighting with a few mobile devices that I want to easily share content with…. I suspect I am not alone. Manufacturers provide handy transfer software for Windows and Mac users, not so much for Linux. A quick way to serve … Continue reading
A reminder to me of how to use custom components in a wxGlade Project. I had a Panel which contained controls for a Matplotlib Project. The panel contained the plotting surface and some combo boxes to set parameters. I wanted … Continue reading
(brief random notes, that may help someone else) A brief tale of getting a matplotlib and basemap to work with pyinstaller. There are two strands to this the Linux and Windows. This is mostly the linux story. Step by step, … Continue reading
I sometimes forget the syntax 🙂 Here is a reminder from how to backup RPidd if=/dev/sdx of=/path/to/image dd if=/dev/sdx | gzip > /path/to/image.gz Where sdx is your SD card. To restore the backup dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/sdx when compressed: gzip -dc /path/to/image.gz | … Continue reading
All the info here is from here and here 1)Defrag the drive within windows. Using something like Defraggler 2)Zero the free space using SDelete command line is sdelete –z C:\ 3)Compress using VBox tools VBoxManage modifyhd –compact nameofimage.vdi
Following some real pain playing video files on an Android Set-top box, the only way to get decent sync between video and audio was to convert all files to .mkv format. So here is a reminder, quick way to convert … Continue reading
To assist some students in their understanding of simple microprocessors, programming and binary I put this simulator together. If you think it would be useful for your demonstrations or teaching drop me an email. (theres a short video here )
Recently I have been using an mbed micro-controllers. These are a great way to rapidly prototype micro-controller projects. One of the great features of the boards is that they provide a serial-over-usb port that can be used to communicate with the … Continue reading
Quick fix information. Using NoMachine NX with Linux Mint. The full steps were found at this blog http://www.fbunix.com/blog/archives/178 in short…. edit /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg and make the gnome-session line CommandStartGnome = “/etc/X11/Xsession mate-session”