Edward Speyer

Links

Headup

My friend Rick has a band called Headup. and their website is here

China Diaries

My old China diaries are here: 2000 2001.

Earthsim

Earthsim!, a piece of software written by Qube Software Ltd, on which I have worked.

Speyer Photonics

Once upon a time, link crawling bots would bestow "rank" upon sites that were linked to from other sites. Here then is a link to my father's company website.

My Cantenna page

…has some UK specific hints on how to make a directional wifi antenna from a tin can and a piece of wire.

Scripts

deliver-to-maildir:

a ruby script for use in procmail that delivers messages into a maildir, but with the "mark as seen" (aka "mark as read"); or "mark as old" functionality that I couldn't find anywhere else!

decode-registry-into-product-key:

a Perl script that decodes a Windows registry to extract the product key used to register that copy.

mime-filter:

a Perl script that strips out attachments from emails that don't match the mime-type "text/*".

Hints

An ALSA hint

If you have multiple sound devices, the order in which you plug them into your computer (or the order in which they are found at boot time) can affect their ALSA device number.

This /etc/asound.conf file is how I set my default device based on name, rather than the unpredictable-card-number.

This ALSA FAQ addresses the same problem.