Posted by Cliff Brake on 2009-10-21 | 
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Recently when debugging a device connected to a rs485 bus, I needed a simple application to dump the raw data coming over the rs485 bus. Minicom does all kinds of weird terminal stuff, plus it will not display binary data, so that was out. While looking for serial analyzer programs for Linux, and pondering writing [...]
Posted by Cliff Brake on 2009-10-16 | Read the First Comment
As I often get involved in server administration (SVN, git, redmine, etc setup), I deal with Apache on a regular basis. For simple configurations, the default Ubuntu/debian config works well. However, for a more complex setup with virtual hosts, multiple IP addresses, and SSL support, it is common to run into the following message:
mixing * [...]
Posted by Cliff Brake on 2009-10-13 | Be the First to Comment
A common question is how do you do kernel development with OpenEmbedded? Typically, OpenEmbedded builds a kernel by checking the source out of a git repository, or by applying patch files to a released version of the kernel. See the many recipes for examples. This works very well for a Linux distribution build system, but [...]