`under' utility decodes binary DER data to S-expressions and/or encodes those back to DER.
Aren't you curious of how iteratees may look in C?
$ echo '(p1 (p2 "48 45 4c 4c 4f") (p3 ""))' | under -e | hexdump -C ( Read more... )

The last part of the series is the shortest: I've just uploaded playlist format description and .pla files' generator to http://github.com/vvv/topla
Have fun!

(See part 1 and part 2.)
Motorola SLVR7e L7e phone has FAT16 filesystem on its memory card. Using wikipedia article on FAT16 design we will locate .mp3 entries in the filesystem and try to correlate them with .pla file (the playlist).
FAT16 consists of boot sector (1 sector is 512 bytes), two File ( Read more... )

(See part 1.)
As long as .pla file is binary, we will view it in hex. Here's a hex dump of a playlist containing first three tracks of Led Zeppelin IV:
$ hd lz4.pla 00000000 00 03 00 01 00 00 00 00 01 40 00 04 00 00 3d 60 |.........@....=`| 00000010 01 40 00 0e 00 00 3d 60 01 40 00 02 00 00 3d 5f |.@....=`.@....=_| 00000020
This playlist ( Read more... )

It works!

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All of you played Doom. Some of you know that it was programmed by John Carmack. Few of you might be aware of .plan files he posted even before the term `blog' was invented. And I find the format used in those files to be clean, minimalistic, and fitting my own issue-tracking habbits.

The format is simple:
* entry was completed on that day
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Господин назначил меня любимой женой!

• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/3327
• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/3328

:)

(Subject отсюда.)

Не знаю, как кому, а мне иногда приятно слушать саунтреки к когда-то игранным компьютерным игрушкам. И сайт присмотрел, где этих саунтреков валом - Galbadia Hotel. Одно плохо - выкачивать неудобно.
( Через тернии к файлам. )