Warner's Random Hacking Blog

From time to time I notice things, or others do, in newbus that need to be cleaned up. These things aren't all that hard to do, usually...

A while ago, my stepson started playing competitive hockey. One of the team mothers suggested that the coach was looking for someone to tap...

I went to OfficeMax the other day for something unreleased and noticed that they were selling 'My Essentials 802.11g wireless' cards...

Today I noticed that CompUSA has the Mustek PF-A700B digitial photo frame for $70. So I got one on a flier thinking that I could hack it. T...

After discovering a number of embarassing typos, I've recently committed support for the AT91RM9200 to head for iic and spi. The only wr...

I've seen questions on clonable devices come up from time to time. When do you want to use a clonable device? There are many times. T...

After tweaking, I was able to get the SD performance up to 750kB/s. This was accomplished by reducing the number of commands I sent to the ...

Just a quick note today. I have most of a driver for the At91rm9200 written to deal with AT45D* (and a few other) flash parts connected via ...

Today was a good day. I'm reading data from both the 256MB and 512MB SD card. In fact, I've been able to mount the root file system...

I'm looking for some information and/or some hardware in this installment. Today, I noticed that the SD 2.0 specification has been relea...

There's many different flash standards in the world today. SD and MMC are two related flash card standards. These cards are used by di...

In the past few days I've been hacking on arm related stuff. I've worked on build tool issues (mostly integrating cogent's chan...

The FreeBSD project just decided to remove the portability ifdefs obscuring the USB code. These ifdefs had been a growning problem for many...

I've been getting more and more questions about FreeBSD embedded systems: What is supported? How can I build for them? What can be don...

Introduction Over the past few days, I've been setting up a transparent proxie. I have a need to limit traffic to a small set of sites ...

spent much of yesterday trying to break into the Thecus N4100 that we have at work. I thought it would be a relatively easy thing to try. ...

OK. I'd like to spend some time and find out how hard it is to do DIY data recovery from a hard disk drive. I had one crash and burn w...