Instructions on how to get an i-Blue 747 or similar bluetooth GPS-datalogger (based on an MTK chipset) to work on Ubuntu and on an Intel-based Mac using the Java-based BT747 control software. Interestingly, someone has even made a Japanese version of the MacOS X howto on his/her blog (む …

In Linux-land there are two major package management systems, APT/dpkg and YUM/RPM. My favourite of the two is definitely APT, which is mostly used by Debian and derivatives such as Ubuntu. Yum is used by Red Hat and derivatives such as CentOS, Fedora and SME, and works just …

Last year I bought a cheap :ZOLID High-Speed DVD Maker at Aldi. Of course it was only packaged with Windows software, so I spent some time researching how to get the thing to work on Ubuntu Linux. It turns out that the device is sold under a number of different …

Update (2014):

In Ubuntu, DV video-capture over Firewire has basically been broken for normal users for the last 7 years or so. I've been unable to get Kino to work on Ubuntu 10.04 and onward, so I switched to dvgrab. If you run it with root-privileges (sudo dvgrab), it …

On current Ubuntu versions (Edgy Eft and higher), the remote control on SAA7134 based TV-cards is automatically recognised by the kernel, and added as an event-device to /dev/input. This means that LIRC itself is not needed anymore, which is great because it's not very easy to configure. The inputlirc …

Coming to you live from the Chaos Communication Camp 2007, in Finowfurt, Germany.

I gave a talk entitled "Life & Complexity" here on Thursday. Some supporting material regarding this talk is available on this site.

Also check out my gallery and Paul's gallery for some nice pictures, and recordings of most …