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Yes i am alive, pirated butter fish didn’t kill me.
Recently, in my great pile of E-Junk, i found a usb to rs232 converter that wasn’t in use. I decided to do something with it. with a little bit of reading, i made this:
Initially, i hooked up the motor to the txd and gnd pins of the rs232 port and hoped that it worked – it didn’t. It turns out that it doesn’t have enough current to drive the motor (it lit up LEDs though, I didn’t mess around with LEDs much as my LEDs might die from it :/). i figure i need some sort of external power supply, this is where the N-MOSFET comes in.
Assemble your board according to the diagram
You can then connect the positive and negative cables to any battery powered device you have lying around (i happened to have a spare propeller), for the battery, i used a standard 9v battery.
Mine turned out like this:
Connect the Gate pin of the mosfet to the RS232’s Txd and Connecting GND pin to the source pin.
All you need to now is to send something to the port,
In *nix based systems(Linux, Mac, etc):
$ echo 1 > /dev/tty(WHATEVER)
Windows
C:\> echo 1 > COM(WHATEVER)
Notice that the more data you send to the port the longer the your powered device stays powered up. To keep your device powered for a longer time, you might want to write a scrip to loop trough it.
Hook this up with twitter and a battery powered nerf gun and everytime someone mention you in twitter, your nerf gun will fire!
Recently i went for a trip to Langkawi, we stayed in The Andaman for 4 days 3 nights.
I’ll stay on topic and not talk about the run down hotel facilities; I’ll talk about the breakfast, lunch and dinner they serve there.
For a 5 start hotel, the variety isn’t as impressive. I’ll just list out what they serve (the ones that i can remember): Sausage, Bacon, Bread, Butterfish, Scramble Eggs, Miso Soup, Soba, Pancake, Waffles, Poached Eggs (This is good!!), Bloody Marry (wtf? for breakfast?) and salads.
Its is pretty much same as the Breakfast: Spaghetti, Fried Rice, Butterfish, Chicken Sausage, Beef Sausage, Cake and.. i don’t remember the rest but that’s not important.
The dinner is quite impressive (the atmosphere). the main focus is suppose to be the Grilled/BBQ food but they only grilled: chicken satay, beef satay and butterfish; they also serve curry lamb, noodles, chicken rice (serious), Murtabak and standard buffet food.
Did you happen to see what’s in common? press ctrl+f and type butterfish, you will notice that the only fish they served is butterfish. what’s wrong with butterfish? Nothing! the problem is, they are not serving us real butterfish! they are serving us Escolar instead of real butterfish (Stromateidae)!
From wikipedia:
Because of the possible effects of consumption, escolar has been banned from consumption in Japan since 1977, as the Japanese government considers it toxic
If Japan banned a fish from consumption, it means that its extremely serious! (the fugu which can kill you if the chef is incompetent is still not banned).
Majority of The Andaman’s customer base are Japanese and yet they serve this fish to everyone.. 3 times a day!! It seems like that’s they only fish they stock up!
Effects of consumption are:
I am not saying that you will 100% get this if you went to a sushi restaurant and ate Escolar as you will only get this if your portion is no greater than 6 ounces (170 grams). But if you stayed in The Andaman your chances is that you will get effected as the only fish they serve is Escolar 3 times a day…
Note that i am not the only one who is complaining about this fish a quick google reveals result from : Andy and Adrian, gothamist and some women’s health blog. This fish should be banned completely from consumption!
I really think that its the latter, Real butterfish is significantly more expensive than Escolar (they are restricted from selling to some countries). if they are cutting cost, they would have just changed the menu. But in this case they lied to their consumer, the purchaser (most likely the head chef) decides to purchase “Fake butterfish”(Escolar) and pocket the remainder of the budget for the real butterfish.
So yea, Thanks to the corrupted ass holes, our trip is messed up by some Pirated butterfish!
Android Debug Bridge(ADB) is usually used for debugging android devices. I personally use it to move files arround because mounting your sdcard can sometimes be a bitch. moving files around in command line isn’t fun too imagine typing the following:
adb push bla /sdcard/ultRa\ Long\ Directory/AnOther\ Long\Directory/bla
not fun…. so to solve this problem i wrote ADBFS. With adbfs, i can simply drag and drop files as usual.
git clone git@github.com:isieo/adbFS.git . cd adbFS make mv adbfs <location of android sdk>/tools/adbfs
mkdir ~/mounted-adb adbfs mounted-adb
done! enjoy drag and drop without needing to “mount” your sdcard to your machine.
Note: adbfs can be very very slow at times, this is because your file manager is trying to access all the files to get data from it. ADB was never designed to do this so its not fast. Also this program is a proof-of-concept if anyone have a better implementation, please suggest.
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Very experimental =P its usable though i use this regularly to modify my playlist file.
Recently I found myself a neat CSRF module for kohana:
I liked its simple design, you generate a token for your form then validate the token when its submitted. Unfortunately, I can’t use this solely for my project. The first issue with this module is that It will require me to manually add support for every single form and be very careful when adding AJAX and regular forms together. So i forked it.
What i did was i add a controller that returns the token as JSON and included a “fake javascript” file. My javascript is simple, its a simple jQuery script that injects a hidden field containing the token that was requested via AJAX, the token is then validated by the the controller automatically which upon success un-assign the token element from the $_POST array and reject if invalid. With that, CSRF tokens are transparent to your front end designers(if you are working with one) and all you need to tell your javascript programmer to do is call getCSRFToken() and post it in every Ajax Call.
Example usage for normal forms:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
...
<script src="jquery-goes-here.js" />
<script src="<?=url::site('/csrf/javascript/csrf.js');?>" />
</head>
<body>
...
<form action="" method="post">
<input type="email" name="emailaddress" />
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
that will work out of the box! no including pesky <input type=”hidden”> crap in your form.
Example using an AJAX call in jQuery:
$.post("<?=url::site('/email/add');?>",
{
'email':'someone@example.com',
'csrf-token' : getCSRFToken()
}
);
All you need to do is to add the ‘csrf-token’ : getCSRFToken() into the ajax request. simple, no need to do callbacks for ajax calls that doesn’t require them.
Security in using JSON for getting token. Some of you might argue that serving tokens in JSON isn’t secure but if you read about JSONP (yes JSON with a P), you will notice that JSON doesn’t work well cross domain. I am no security expert but hey, Accodring to: robubu.com there are no current vulnerabilities in using “serialized object” JSON (php’s json_encode function returns that by default).
So there you go a simple and nice module to prevent CSRF in kohana, coupled with jQuery Pouplate Plugin you get “pure html” forms that will make your frontend guy happy and not bug you for any assistant.
Update: As of 3 hours prior from this post, supports Namespaces to support multiple forms. but still.. its quite troublesome trying to keep track of token namespaces when you have many forms in a the same page which is going to make the frontend guy and you cry.. Its still a great module to use if you are working alone or you have an application that needs to be super-duper-uber-hacker-proof secure.
Here is a list of tv series that might interest some of us.
James May gets stuck.
TopGear is back! more “serious” car show!
As usual, they are being “serious”, crashing more Malaysian made cars and insulting people. I don’t usually watch car show but top gear is different, its not about cars; its about how 3 guys do strange things with cars =P
Next, we have Eclip….urgh! i mean High School of the Dead.
Brainzzz!
I am guessing that this show will not end up in animax or cartoon network because of the amount of blood and flesh you see in this show (and boobs?). Anyway, its should be fun to watch, i have read the comic(yea i don’t use the word “manga”, i am typing in english so why need romanization?) and the story isn’t too bad… (i personally watch it for the zombies). In any case this is 10000% better than Vampires and Warewolfs trying to mingle with a girl (Ecl*caugh*caugh*ips)..
Seitokai Yakuindomo Screenshot
ok, i am going to contradict what i said about romanization (just because it sounds stupid after translation) Seitokai Yakuindomo which means correct me if i am wrong… “the officers of student council”. Anyway this is filled with weird jokes and just good for laughter.
There are more that i want to post but they are all still in the first episode can’t write much there.. so i am recommending some documentaries here.
National Geographic Engineering Connections hosted by Richard Hammond. Interestingly enough this is quite informative, it shows you how engineering marvel got designed by tracing the roots of the technologies it uses.
National Geographic Engineering Connections
Mythbusters! not much to talk about here but more explosions! yea!
Mythbusters
Well that’s it.
May your skin be collected..
Last week, my friends and me decided to have dinner at theCurve and chill at the apartment then go to laundry and then finally go to the library (err don’t take this literally click on the links before assuming anything).
At the apartment, I got some Roast duck for main course, cappuccino for drink and chocolate cake for desert.
Roast Duck with mash potato, peach and honey
Being me, i’ll always comment on the coffee first. Here’s my Rating (bold denotes rating):
Yea so.. the coffee is a fail and the food?
Desert… my tastebud got congested by honey-herb-nut sauce and i can taste nothing. according to my friends, its good. =P
Conclusion, i have been collectskin (oh yea this is how you use the word btw.) by the apartment… go to the apartment for your desert and alcoholic drinks and not for dinner.
Oh yea we didn’t manage to go laundry and the library because i have got honey tongue. We ended up at SYM and karaoked till 2am ~_~
Alright, i am reviving this blog for the sake of having a blog again!
What you might find here will be a mix of : Programming stuff, Movies (tv series, animes, documentaries), Random Facts, Tech Tips and Food!
well, i am not much of a writer; so i am ending the introduction here XD