For some reasons, La Fonera only allow users to upload a firmware released by FON.com. The /bin/fonverify upgrade script written by Pablo Martin is using a public-key cryptography for protect the firmware images. Each firmware image has a RIPEMD-160 message digest for verification. Only the verified images will be wrote into the flash.
However, since La [...]

Hacking the Lobos LB-SP110 at HumanitySpace with Ping and Thinker, 2006-11-21. Thanks psilotum for the picture.

The original design of Porta2030 is using a LCD and 4 buttons for communication. The LCD can only display 32 characters for messages, and 4 buttons for differnet porta porter status.

The porta-porter communicates with each other by using an LCD [...]

Thanks to YK, I’m one of the few lucky guys who can take la Fonera home.
Last Sunday, I attended to the Firefox 2 Party at Taiwan, and met Jordi Vallejo and YK again. We shares the new progress of FON.com last few weeks. Finally, FON.com is going to setup a new office in Taipei and [...]

Last Saturday, I went to Taipei Fine Arts Museum for PORTA2030 which is presenting by TAKE2030 at the Taipei Biennale 2006. The Taipie Biennale 2006 is from 2006/11/04 to 2007/02/25.
(If you can not read the PORTA2030 web pages, change the browser character encoding setting into UTF-16 little endian.)

In the late 1990s, DigitalConvergence.:Com (now-defunct) developed a barcode reader named :CueCat, which is a cat-shaped handheld barcode reader. The :CueCat enabled people to link to an Internet website by scanning a 1D barcode. It’s a cool idea. But, the commercial was failed, because they used proprietary data format which being scrambled. The other [...]

中華電信在十月的電信帳單後，印上了 QRCode 的新行銷活動，推銷周董的「依然范特西」專輯與中華電信的 emome 音樂台。