ifconfig vs ip(21 April 2010)
For a long time I have shunned away from learning the ip command. It turned out a smaller beast than I thought and it is actually very useful. This page compares basic operations done once with ifconfig, once with ip. I hope this will help people to get used to the new syntax.
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pycrc v0.7.5 released(28 March 2010)
Version 0.7.5 of pycrc adds a long-awaited feature: the table-driven algorithm can handle widths that are not byte-aligned as well as widths less than 8. This version also removes the half-baken and confusing --direct option and contains some code tidy-up. The generated C code should no more generate warnings about unused variables.
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userial firmware v1.9(25 March 2010)
userial firmware v1.9 is a minor bugfix release. This release is the first firmware version that supports Dave Fletcher's Bumble-B board. This version also uses the newest LUFA library 100219 and fixes a few bugs: the SPI clock divider was never written to the right register (thanks to Erik Schönewerk) and the GPIO read command returned the value of PORTx but not PINx (thanks to Dave Fletcher).
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pycrc v0.7.4 released(24 January 2010)
Version 0.7.4 of pycrc is a feature enhancement and bug fix release. As a result from the comparison of pycrc's parameters with Greg Cook's catalogue of common CRC algorithms some parameters have changed. This version also contains a few minor bugfixes.
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userial firmware v1.8(31 October 2009)
userial firmware v1.8 is a minor bugfix release. This version fixes a bug in the calculation of the SPI frequency. Many thanks to Zoran Stojkovic.
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pycrc v0.7.3 released(25 October 2009)
Version 0.7.3 of pycrc is only a small feature enhancement release: a new CRC model, crc-64-jones was added. Thanks to Waterspirit.
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How to print a booklet under Linux without a duplex printer(11 October 2009)
A short text on how to generate and print booklets under Linux. It is the result of a lenghtly trial-and-error processes. That's why I went to sketch the necessary steps down, mainly for my own use.
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