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Antonio Ospite, theorist attacks

Some times ago I ran into some Service Manuals with unusual background images:

• LG GOLDSTAR CB995C Service Manual
• JVC HV-29JH24 Service Manual

On May 23rd 2016 version 0.6 of tweeper has been released.

From “The Lord of the Phone-Rings”, about SaveMySugar:

One RING after them all, one RING to end them,
One RING to get the... messages, and from Morse code decode 'em.

The libam7xxx-0.1.6 release is out; it's a maintenance release with no big new features.

You know that effect in some videos where objects moving in the scene leave a trail of their old position?

On September 13th 2015 I released version 0.4 of tweeper, a web scraper which converts Twitter and other sites to RSS.

Sometimes there is the need to plot some events which have a periodic trend.

Let's consider a seasonal phenomenon; a typical plot may not fully highlight the regularity of the periodic behavior:

While I was trying to boot a vanilla linux kernel on the Teclast X98 Air 3G I messed up a bit with the UEFI firmware settings: the battery was not recognized anymore, the tablet was rebooting right after showing the UEFI firmware boot screen, and USB-host was not working either; so no keyboard for accessing the firmware menu to restore the default settings, and no ADB for running flashrom or the Intel FPT to reflash the firmware with.

I got a Teclast X98 Air 3G tablet from Aliexpress, it costed 168 € ( with free shipping) and has a high-definition screen and it's an Intel Bay Trail device; so Android, x86 architecture, 2GiB of RAM and 32 GiB of storage on EMMC.

Attached files: 

dmesg-Teclast_X98_Air_3G.log

A vocoder is basically a tool to turn any sound into something which can “speak”, some examples can be seen in this Collin's Lab episode about MIDI, or in this classic from the Kraftwerk (the vocoder effect starts at 1:06):

Whether you are planning to ask for a ransom, or joining the Daft Punk, or taking a time travel to the '70s: a vocoder is always handy.