Author Archives: makomk

Not blogged much lately. However, there’s a whole bunch of stuff I’ve been up to that hasn’t been in any suitable condition to make public or that I just plain haven’t got around to yet. (Well, one or two thing, … Continue reading →

There’s an interesting issue in SOSSE that prevents it from running right on some Atmega163-based smartcards if you just make the obvious changes to port it. The usual symptom is that the card ATRs correctly, but won’t listen to any … Continue reading →

Some months ago, I hacked up some existing Arduino-based AVR programming code (avr910_ard.pde) in order to program Funcards with it. You can download it here. If you’re not familiar with Funcards, they’re basically standard AT90S8515 AVR microcontrollers in smartcard format. … Continue reading →

Having read today’s xkcd, I wonder how quickly the number of Google results for 1girl10000cups, 2girls(5+3i)cups, 65536girls65536cups, and 3frenchhens2turtledoves1cup will increase.

Scientology scares me. Then again, even the IRS seems to be afraid of them.

Well, that’s the Mercurial repositories back up. I think that should be the last of the public-facing stuff; the rest can wait.

Well, I managed to get my new VPS set up and working. Then random programs started segfaulting, to the point where it wouldn’t boot up. I pulled the affected programs off and ran clanscan over them – they were infected … Continue reading →

Finally got round to reinstalling WordPress after the bout of massive filesystem corruption that took out the last installation (along with the rest of the virtual server it was installed on). It’s only two or three months since then… This … Continue reading →