Mount JFFS2 Image
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Example of how to mount a JFFS2 image using mtdblock.
Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
Monday, July 14, 2008
This is a rather interesting talk that takes some very foundational ideas from open source software development, P2P networks, and social networking and implies that these paradigms can apply to a lot more.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
- Sandra Carey
Dialog Progress Bar Through Pipe
Sunday, April 12, 2009 by digitalpeer
The following example creates a named pipe, assigns a file descriptor to it, sub-shells the dialog guage, and communicates progress to it through the pipe.
#!/bin/sh
rm /tmp/fifo
mkfifo /tmp/fifo
exec 5<>/tmp/fifo
( cat <&5 | dialog --guage "hello world" 10 30 ) &
echo 000 >&5
sleep 0.5
echo 010 >&5
sleep 0.5
echo 020 >&5
sleep 0.5
echo 030 >&5
sleep 0.5
echo 050 >&5
sleep 0.5
echo 080 >&5
sleep 0.5
echo 100 >&5
5<&-
exit 0