Cloning CompactFlash Cards using WinHex
2009-07-05 15:16 by Ian
A procedure for making byte-for-byte copies of CF cards. Written while working at a camera repair shop that needed this capability, but it’s also useful for lifting partitions from a development system using a conventional hard drive and dropping them onto a CF card for operation in a finished condition (after appropriate edits).
Mounting a MySQL database from a ram drive in slackware
2008-12-27 22:49 by Ian
My little 1GHz VIA EPIA board now runs a DB that will saturate the NIC. By running the database from files located in a RAM drive, hard drive speed is no longer a limiting factor in database performance.
Compiling JVLC for a 32-bit linux environment
2008-03-17 01:50 by Ian
When it doesn’t exist, you must build it yourself.
This is the outline of my tortuous experience building the java bindings for VLC on linux. I am happy to report that it does in fact work.
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The Car PC: Server-side software
2007-11-10 01:02 by Ian
The server at home that handles much of the remote work.
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