Serial overrun on Linux
Working with serial lines can sometimes give you big headaches. I have an embedded PC based on 386 SX 40 processor. This PC doesn’t make much but it has programs using the serial line intensively....
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This is a never ending story for me. The first time I’ve had problems with Linux’s handling of serial UART dates back to 2005 (see my previous blog post on buffer overruns). At that time I could...
View ArticleAssembling bits of history with git
The dpkg team has a nice history of changing VCS over time. At the beginning, Ian Jackson simply uploaded new tarballs, then CVS was used during a few years, then Arch got used and up to now Subversion...
View ArticleAssembling bits of history with git: take two
Following my previous article, I had some interesting comments introducing me to git-filter-branch (which is a new function coming from cogito’s cg-admin-rewritehist). This command is really designed...
View ArticleHow to create custom RSS feeds with WordPress
WordPress has many alternate built-in feeds: per category, per tag, per author, per search-keyword. But in some cases, you want feeds built with some more advanced logic. Let’s look at the available...
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