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Garmin GND10 unveiled (it is Nexus FDX!)

Posted on 2016-08-26 by Lasse Karstensen

Mother of all detours; the USB port on the Garmin GND10 isn’t NMEA2000, it is something called Nexus FDX. That took a couple of weeks to figure out, hunting for NMEA2000 protocol headers. Always check your assumptions. Anyway, I’ve written … Continue reading →

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NMEA2000 and CANbus

Posted on 2016-08-09 by Lasse Karstensen

I’ve been looking at NMEA2000 and CANbus lately. I’m attempting to reverse engineer the binary protocol seen coming out of the USB port on a Garmin GND10 network bridge, and that opens a whole field of new and interesting stuff … Continue reading →

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Disable Spotify song change notification in Debian Linux

Posted on 2014-06-27 by Lasse Karstensen

Recently Spotify started sending notifications to the desktop on song change. This is unnecessarily annoying and breaks my flow, so it had to go. (and since I usually just listen to the same playlists anyway, I’m very well aware what … Continue reading →

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DNS RBL test address for development

Posted on 2013-12-11 by Lasse Karstensen

If you are writing code that checks a DNS real-time blockhole list (RBL), it looks like 127.0.0.2 is the standard address that is always in the black/white -list. This is probably know for most sysadmins/security people and whatnot, but wasn’t … Continue reading →

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libvmod-cookie; simpler cookie handling in Varnish VCL

Posted on 2013-07-15 by Lasse Karstensen

I’ve written a Varnish module (VMOD) to simplify handling of HTTP cookies in Varnish VCL. In essence it does the usual stuff you’d usually do with regular expressions, but with much simpler syntax and readability. It works by parsing the … Continue reading →

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Hostname Unsuitable for Printing in dhcpd logs

Posted on 2008-10-13 by Lasse Karstensen

Some time ago I spent som time googling some strange ISC DHCPd log lines: Oct 13 12:38:33 amuka dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 129.241.x.y from 00:1b:38:xx:xx:xx (Hostname Unsuitable for Printing) via 129.241.x.1 Oct 13 12:38:33 amuka dhcpd: DHCPACK on 129.241.x.y to 00:1b:38:xx:xx:xx … Continue reading →

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