• Arduino Duemilanove

    For some reason I had an ATmega168 and an ATmega328 sitting in my parts bins. To put them to use a couple bare PCB were ordered from a Chinese vendor on eBay. The boards I received were in superb condition. Most surface mount components were 0805 size, except for the FDTI chip of course.
  • The *uino-32u4 Is Born

    My early Arduino Leonardo clone.
  • iTunes To Icecast

    Some time ago I wrote some PHP scripts to feed an iTunes library to an Icecast server. The project provides a framework and web based GUI to stream an iTunes library to an Icecast server.

  • Pretty Code Block in CSS

    This is a neat way to format code blocks. Parts cobbled together from various places. It is not longer exactly as used here since I have changed themes and CMS.

        pre {
            font-family: "Courier 10 Pitch", Courier, monospace;
            font-size: 95%;
            line-height: 140%;
            white-space: pre;
            white-space: pre-wrap;
            white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;
            white-space: -o-pre-wrap;
        }       
        
        code {
            font-family: Monaco, Consolas, "Andale Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", monospace;
            font-size: 95%;
            line-height: 140%;
            white-space: pre;
            white-space: pre-wrap;
            white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;
            white-space: -o-pre-wrap;
            background: #faf8f0;
        }
        
        #content code {
            display: block;
            padding: 0.5em 1em;
            border: 1px solid #bebab0;
        }
  • Creating a Bootable FreeNAS USB Stick on a Mac

    Obtain the FreeNAS image. For this example I am using FreeNAS-amd64-embedded-0.7.2.5543.img. Have a USB stick on hand that hopefully supports booting.

  • Create ISO image using hdiutil on OS X

    How exactly can one create a good old ISO image using readily available Mac tools? After all, the Disk Utility seems to heavily favor the DMG format. Here is the magic, using the terminal run: