After confirming the signal and still failing to turn on my TV, I figured my Panasonic Viera TV was using a different protocol from the RC5 that I had initially implemented. I tried to decode the p...

(Continued from below.) It works! I’ve attached the O-scope to an IR sensor (TSOP31238, 38Khz) which also demodulates the signal, and the demodulated signal is correct! This proves that using the ...

I had this silly idea a few weeks back: to simply attach an LED to an 3,5” audio jack and make a mobile phone application with which you can control all your devices, simply by playing a generated ...

You can get the slides of my presentation here. Feel free to leave comments below.

Inspired by this page on NAS-Central, I ordered a USB sound card on TaoBao (15 RMB including delivery!) and plugged it into my LinkStation. A quick dmesg showed that the device was detected, but no...

I’ve just finished my first app and have published it on the market! The app is very simple: it shows the current air quality in Beijing, as measured by the US Embassy. Scan the QR Code on the righ...

I’ll be presenting the D Programming Language at the next monthly BLUG meeting. It’ll mostly be for people who haven’t heard of D yet. There’ll be a fair chunk of D1 in there, but I’m hoping to tou...

In a last effort to save e-mail from being obsoleted, some guys at Yahoo thought of the DomainKeys system to prevent message spoofing. SMTP servers that are DomainKeys-aware can check the contents ...

I’ve moved this blog from directnic.com to my own VPS. This blog is using Serendipity, which consists of a bunch of files for the webserver and a MySQL database. (I during the move I noticed that t...

…and it fucks up most of the sites I visit daily. Apparently AOL offers the open-source Dojo framework on its Content Delivery Network and many sites make use of it. Come on, AOL, change your IP ...