Miscellaneous hackings

These are some notes I've made mainly for myself when tinkering with some small pieces of software for my own amusement. This should be noted when reading the provided information. (Also, should you try to follow the instructions or utilise any of the provided info in any way, you are doing it with your own risk.)

• My interpretation of ASID protocol used in SidStation
• How to compile VST SDK plug-ins with DevC++
• Internals of an FRWD F-series GPS (If you have any idea how to improve the reception of the module, contact me.)
• Python script polling the presence of known Bluetooth devices. The poll uses SDP to reveal also the presence of devices in hidden mode. Simpler version.
• Quite simple Python script to fetch disc info from CDDB and insert the info into a MySQL db (emulating the db insert feature of cddb.pl)
  The full updated version of CDDB.py packet for Win32, including Pythonized MCI wrapper and slightly modified method for disc id calculation (in my experiments, this gives more often the correct id).
• How to use USB PCSC smart card reader with NSLU2.
• How to install Debian Etch to an ARM system running in qemu.
• suomi.locale for DBox2 Yadi 2.2.0.5
• Title formatting for foobar2000 to use, e.g., in transcoding. Creates directory structure "Artists - Album\[disc]\Trackno - Track - TrackArtist"
  $ascii(%album artist% - $ifgreater($strrchr(%album%,')'),$sub($len($trim(%album%)),1),$trim($substr(%album%,0,$sub($strrchr(%album%,'('),1)))\$trim($substr(%album%,$add($strrchr(%album%,'('),1),$sub($strrchr(%album%,')'),1))),%album%)\%tracknumber% - %title% - $if(%track artist%,%track artist%,%album artist%))
  
• Story of Iiro.

Something else

GPS tracks of some nice bike routes around Tampere

• Pirkka bicycling 2007 (approx. 134km) (in Google Maps)
• Route to Ruutana (approx. 42km) (in Google Maps)
• Route to Ruutana, alternative start and end (approx 46km) (in Google Maps)
• Route through Säijä (approx. 68km) (in Google Maps)
• Route to Taivalpirtti and via Lentokentäntie to Pirkkala (approx. 59km) (in Google Maps)
• Route to "Teletubbiland" (approx. 70km) (in Google Maps)
• Route to Valkeakoski (approx. 83km) (in Google Maps)
• Route to Peltolammi (approx. 22km) (in Google Maps)
• Route to Pirkkala and Rajasalmi (approx. 38km) (in Google Maps)

What I do for a living is audio/music signal processing.

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paulus, 2008/08/27