Andrew's Projects

Arduino

• Four flip dots controlled by arduino and two L293d quad half h bridge
• Controlling a Signalex Seven segment display using an arduino and mic5801BN
• Controlling a Signalex Seven segment display using an arduino, two shift registers and two mic5801BN
• SPI and other improvements
• Chronomix cc3000 race clock control board prototype using arduino mega

Linux stuff

• Setting up iscsi with Ubuntu 22.10
• Mounting Ubuntu's Encrypted ZFS Home Directory
• Mounting linux partitions in Windows 11.
• Information about the System76 Galago Pro ultrabook.
• Samba4 Active Directory Directory Controller Virtual Machine.
• Using ddrescue over a network to a shared folder.
• How to find the NTFS filename associated with a bad block using linux
• Partition tables backup and recovery. How a stupid mistake led to an adventure with partitioning tools.
• How to copy a hard drive to USB flash drive and make it bootable
• Eee PC 2g Surf Notes.
• Inside the Gateway Profile 3 All-in-One PC. This pictorial shows how to open the Gateway Profile 3 PC.
• Opening the decTop SFF computer. This pictorial documents the disassembly of Data Evolution Corporation's decTop small form factor computer. The decTop had previously been sold by AMD as the AMD Personal Internet Computer (PIC).
• Anatomy of a Deb File
• Using Falcon Repository manager
• How To Build A Home Internet Server Part 1
• My dead-simple sql lite tutorial.
• Installing Ubuntu 7.10 on a Dell Latitude C600.
• Hard drive cloning using dd, gzip, and growisofs.
• Thinknic Hacking. A hacking guide for the Oracle/New Internet Computer Company ThinkNIC.
• How to make a mix DVD without transcoding.
• VHS to DVD. A short howto explaining vhs to dvd conversion under linux.
• DVD Authoring. A short introduction to dvd authoring on linux.
• EPIA HowTo. How to install linux on the VIA EPIA mini-itx family of mainboards.
• Protecting Email using GNU Privacy Guard. A short guide to installing and using the enigmail mail protection plugin for Mozilla Thunderbird.
• How to Install Software. A six page tutorial explaining how to install new software on a knoppix/debian system. In other words, yet another dpkg/apt tutorial.
• Ten Knoppix Addons. Ten things to do after a knoppix hard drive install.
• X Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. A LUG presentation explaining how to set up and use XMAME.
• A Tale of Three Modems. A short story about getting three winmodems to work with linux - surprisinly easy!
• How To Install Knoppix on the EPIA M10000.
• Linux Games. (pdf file) State of linux games as of June 2003.
• Installing Red Hat 8. How to install Red Hat 8.
• Using GNU Partition Editor. How to use GNU Partition Editor (parted) to resize your Windows parition.
• NAT and IP Masquerade. (pdf file) Network Address Translation and IP Masquerade are often used to provide Internet connectivity to hosts on private networks. This paper explains how they work and the differences between NAT and IP Masq.
• Introduction to TCP/IP. (pdf file) Title says it all.
• Packet Filtering Firewall. (pdf file) How to create a packet filtering firewall using the linux iptables module.
• What is Linux?. A quick summary of the introduction to linux course, intended to be delivered in less than one hour.
• How to remove Nautilus. Eazel forgot to make an uninstall for Nautilus. Here's how to do it. Copied from someone else.
• Matrox G400 HAL and SVGATextMode. I like matrox cards, but the HAL driver is incompatible with SVGATextMode. I've since switched to nvidia cards, which work great with frame buffer.
• Configuring the SMC 8216C Elite 16 Ultra for Linux. I keep forgetting how to configure this old card, so I put the instructions here where I won't lose them.
• Killing Demons. A good article describing which demons should be removed from the default distribution init scripts.
• Installing Linux on a Dell CPi D266XT Laptop. The title says it all.
• How to build a packet filtering router.
• Understanding Floppyfw. An explanation of how the floppyfw distribution works.

Mac OS X Stuff

• Outlook Web Access using Citrix on Mac OS 10.6.
• Transcoding Notes. Miscellaneous notes about transcoding using mplayer on mac os x and debian ppc.
• How to Compile gnuplot. Compiling gnuplot for Mac OS X is tricky. Here's how to do it.

Free Software

• Snellen - a visual acuity testing program. Including a truetype snellen font.
• VIA C3 Powersaver driver. The VIA C3 processor includes a feature whereby the CPU clock multiplier may be changed during operation. By reducing the clock multiplier the system administrator can reduce power consumption and reduce heat. This feature used to be called longhaul but is now called powersaver. The powersaver driver included in the linux kernel does not work with the latest C3 CPUs. Therefore I wrote this driver, with substantial contributions from Joseph Chan.
• XSwitchmode. XSwitchmode is a tiny application which changes the screen resolution (i.e. "mode") in X Window environment. It is the same as pressing ctrl-alt-plus, but some keyboards don't have a numeric keypad. If you are familiar with the XF86 API, it's just a wrapper for the XF86VidModeSwitchMode function.
• Axis & Allies Battle Simulator v2.0. This latest (July 2003) version of the battle simulator includes advanced features such as survivor estimation.

Axis and Allies

•  Probability of Outcomes of A&A Battles. This paper describes a method to explicitly calculate the probabilities of the various results of a given battle.
• Axis & Allies Battle Simulator v2.0. This latest (July 2003) version of the battle simulator includes advanced features such as survivor estimation.
• Heavy Bombers Probabilities. Probability of rolling the heavy bomber technology, for one to ten tech rolls and given that the player already has zero to five techs.

Odds and Ends

• Harry Potter Championship Quidditch Game Instructions
• How to calculate master factor for ski races using zone4.
• C64 S-video. How to connect your Commodore 64 to the s-video input of your TV. AT YOUR OWN RISK!
• Mini-me. Me, but smaller and cuter.
• Hi-ya!