Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
Wow. I have so many memories of downloading and using Winamp to play that new music file format back in the day, MP3 files.
AOL has just announced they are shutting down Nullsoft, the organization behind Winamp, which they bought for $100M in 1999.
But recent rumors are that Microsoft may step in and buy Nullsoft?
There’s a range of cheap (< $20) USB Digital TV receivers that due to their wide tuning range can be used as Software Defined Radios (SDR) when combined with other software to tune and receive the signal from the dongle.
RTL chipset dongles are supported by open source software rtl-sdr. Download the source to your Pi and build following the instructions on their website. By running as follows:
rtl_tcp -a your_ip_address
you can stream the data received from the dongle inserted into your Pi to other software running elsewhere (your desktop/laptop) like SDR Sharp (by pointing it to the IP address of the Pi) which you can use to control the tuning of the dongle.
Over the years there’s been a few different people who have designed and built custom peripherals for the Atari ST, like SD Card readers and Ethernet adapters. These were usually sold as one-off custom orders, and built on demand. It looks like there’s a company called Lotherek that’s started to manufacturer many of these with permission from the original developers – check out their site here.
Fiddler is invaluable for monitoring HTTP requests from your browser. If you’re investigating HTTP header usage and the effort on caching static content, Fiddler is definitely the way to go, since using the Developer Tools in IE, Chrome or FireBug in Firefox don’t always give you an accurate picture of the actual outgoing HTTP requests. IE is the worst… its developer tool shows HTTP requests going out even though the files are being retrieved from cache. If you really want to see what’s going on then you need something like Fiddler.
To review requests against a server running locally (against localhost), there’s a number of tips in the docs here, but the simplest approach seems to be to use your own IP address (actual address, not 127.0.0.1) instead of localhost or any of the other approaches listed on this page. It works without any other changes.