Monthly Archives: July 2011

A Major Mode for Emacs, to help the editing of Samba’s configuration file smb.conf It doesn’t do anything fancy, but it helps me, I hope it helps you. It’s still a work in progress, as well as being my first … Continue reading →

cddump is a Perl wrapper around “mkisofs” and “cdrecord” that behaves in a similar manner to the standard dump(8) utility. It backs up files to single or multiple CD-Rs or CD-RWs, and fully supports full, differential and incremental backups, and … Continue reading →

Single Button Launcher is a PalmOS application that can launch up to 5 different applications using only a single hardware button. Pressing this button and immediately releasing it launches the first application. Holding the button down for a few moments … Continue reading →

Banner accepts a text message and scrolls it in huge letters across the PalmOS screen. While the message is scrolling, press the up or down hardware buttons to interrupt. It takes up around 64K of RAM, most of this is … Continue reading →

The Entropy Hack gathers randomness or “entropy” by recording system events, then uses this entropy to patch PalmOS’ SysRandom() call, to generate high-quality random numbers for any application that needs them. Why Is This Useful? The PalmOS SysRandom() call is … Continue reading →

he Insidious Calculator is a PalmOS Hack that turns every text field into a four-function calculator. It will evaluate any normal arithmetic expression containing numbers, +, -, *, /, ( and ) entered into any text field, including in the … Continue reading →

Open is a PalmOS application which records the opening hours of stores, restaurants, banks, or anything else that maintains regular hours over a week, such as TV shows, shortwave radio stations or flex-time systems, and shows their current “open-ness” at … Continue reading →

Linux/x86 software to drive the rather misleadingly-named No-Parts PIC Programmer, the cheapest and simplest programmer for Microchip’s 18-pin microcontrollers, designed by Michael Covington. The hardware is described in files in all of the distributions available below. There are lots of … Continue reading →

The mechanical parts of the problem are well-documented elsewhere, so our problem becomes how to get commands to the camera without using radio. This might seem obvious, but here are the stages: The operator enters commands into a unit on … Continue reading →