Here’s a quick tip to make this mobile scanner more conveniently mobile.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

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For my latest ugly hack, I wanted to give any/every machine in the house a globally-routable IPv6 address, and I didn’t want to have to babysit the setup every time the router’s IPv4 address changed.

I recently bought a Bluetooth keyboard to use on Android; unfortunately some keys weren’t recognised at all and others weren’t quite mapped as I’d like. This is fairly easy to fix as an end user, as long as you have a rooted device (adb remount must succeed). Update: this is less likely now than in 2010. Here’s a quick howto anyway, since I couldn’t find one.