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CPU frequency scaling

Posted on February 28, 2010 by admin

It did seem a bit odd that my fancy new 2.8GHz processor had troubles to seemlessly decode simple videos from youtube. The flash plugin process seemed to frequently change CPU and therefor hang every second or so. After investigating a … Continue reading →

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Bit of Nostalgy

Posted on May 18, 2009 by admin

I recently discovered the code of my last third years java class exercise …

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Cisco AXP less annoying

Posted on March 4, 2009 by admin

Developping applications on top of Ciscos AXP router can be extremely annoying. The router reboots after each install or uninstall of a package, the process of building the signed installation packages is cumbersome, the packages need afterwards to be pushed … Continue reading →

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ICT Lyon 2008

Posted on December 1, 2008 by admin

Working for a small EU financed project (i will not tell which one) i was sent to the 2008 ICT in Lyon last week to represent the project. Even thought i have seen some exhibitions before, i was really surprised … Continue reading →

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SMTP-Auth with Telnet

Posted on November 28, 2008 by admin

(E)SMTP Most of you proably know how to “speak” SMTP. A basic session looks like: user@host:~$ telnet mail.example.com smtp Trying x.y.z.a … Connected to mail.example.com. Escape character is ‘^]’. ehlo d 250-hostX.example.com 250-PIPELINING … mail from: <some@address.org> 250 2.1.0 Ok … Continue reading →

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