Edmund Tse :: specialist in technology generally
Posted in Hardware, Mini-Projects, Software on Jul 9th, 2010
After having the solar electricity system installed, I can monitor the energy output of the inverter using Pro Control. However, because the software runs on Windows, I’d have to have a PC turned on just for that purpose wasting quite a bit of energy. So, my goal is to use a low-power embedded Debian box [...]
Posted in Mini-Projects, Software on Jul 3rd, 2010
The story behind this mini-project is, a friend of mine mentioned how he would SSH into his Mac at home and use “say” to send a short message to his parents, just like in a past XKCD webcomic: Mac users, lucky you. You get a Terminal utility called “say” that converts text to speech. Windows [...]
So recently an image for the phantom phone “HTC Mondrian” was leaked and spattered across the internet. Catching a chunk of the spatter, I dug in to see what was inside. I noticed something rather interesting, while digging through the “HTC Test Tool” package. There is apparently a “normal app” called BatteryTool: <App xmlns="" ProductID="{ae2781c8-7afb-4e16-a643-c9c0ff33fc15}" [...]
Posted in Mini-Projects, Software on Nov 30th, 2009
It’s been about a month since I’ve migrated my blog from a hosted service at WordPress.com to hosting my WordPress blog on my own servers. So far, everything is doing quite alright especially the benefits of self hosting WordPress which gives me total control over my contents and my plugins. So this is intended to [...]
Given an existing directory containing files and folders, how can I reproduce the same structure somewhere else on the hard drive (or otherwise), but instead of copying the full file contents, just have dummy files with the same name? This question came from a question on Atomic MPC forums that I thought would be really [...]
I use Mozy.com for my automatic online backups.