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Why EDID/HDCP information is important in monitoring solutions
EDID stands for "Extended Display Identification Data" and in IPTV solutions is used to provide detailed information on TV set capabilities and manufacturing information. HDCP ("High-bandwidth Digital...
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Meeting "minutes" in three simple steps
Nobody likes it. They are boring duty you ought to do after a meeting. What? "Minutes", of course. By "minutes" I mean: a note from the meeting (or a telco) that should be sent after a call to all...
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PlantUML – draw your diagrams declaratively
One picture is worth of thousand words. So true. Even if you describe some flow with many detailed paragraphs one sequence diagram might show the idea instantly to the reader much better than all the...
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Setting up proper terminal size for serial connection to an embedded device
When you work over serial line on an embedded device usually the terminal size it set to 80×25. There's an easy way, however, to setup your real terminal size, just add the following line to your...
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Conflicting DHCP server locator under Linux
In order to locate conflicting DHCP server in your LAN execute the following command: sudo dhcpdump -i eth4 | awk '/IP:/{SRC=$2 " " $3} /OP:.*BOOTPREPLY/{ print "DHCP server found:", SRC; }' The...
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An Easy Executable Software Specification – A Proposal
Executable specification is a "holly graal" of modern software engineering. It's very hard to implement as it requires: Formal specification of rules Transformation of those rules into real-system...
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CMake very basic tutorial
Writing Makefiles is a complicated process. They are powerful tools and, as such, show quite high level of complexity. In order to make typical project development easier higher level tools have been...
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Basic Hudson/Jenkins tutorial
Continuous Integration is a great thing. Allows you to monitor your project state on a commit-by-commit basis. Every build failure is monitored easily. If you connect your unit and integration tests...
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ssls.com review
Sometimes you need to provide encrypted traffic to your site. Besides proper configuration in web server you need to authenticate your server using some publicly trusted certificates, so your...
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Tracking Integration With Yocto/OpenEmbedded
Yocto is an Open Source project (based, in turn, on OpenEmbedded and bitbake) that allows you to create your own custom Linux distribution and build everything from sources (like Gentoo does). It's...
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