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- Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/03/apples-long-lost-hidden-recovery-partition-from-1994-has-been-found/ 99 comments
- Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/03/the-gooey-rubber-thats-slowly-ruining-old-hard-drives/ 208 comments
- An invalid 68030 instruction accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to boot https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/ 69 comments
- Why is my CPU usage always 100%? https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/04/why-is-my-cpu-usage-always-100-upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-9/ 143 comments
- The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/11/the-capacitor-that-apple-soldered-incorrectly-at-the-factory/ 259 comments
- Are wireless gamepads terrible? Mario Maker TAS playback with an RP2040 https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/10/are-wireless-gamepads-terrible-mario-maker-tas-playback-with-an-rp2040/ 3 comments
- Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/09/fixing-an-elgato-hd60-s-hdmi-capture-device-with-the-help-of-ghidra/ 96 comments
- Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 13: the end https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/08/upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-13-the-end/ 3 comments
- Fixing a knockoff Altera USB Blaster that never worked https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/06/fixing-a-knockoff-altera-usb-blaster-that-never-worked/ 32 comments
- Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 10: RTC https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/06/upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-10-rtc/ 17 comments
- More fun with Apple's internal tools: creating a PDS card https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/12/more-fun-with-apples-internal-tools-creating-a-pds-card/ 6 comments
- How Apple's developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the '90s https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/11/how-apples-developers-reflashed-mac-roms-in-the-90s/ 88 comments
- How to create a Qt 5 ARM/Intel universal binary for Mac https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/08/how-to-create-a-qt-5-arm-intel-universal-binary-for-mac/ 56 comments
- Building Alex Taradov’s open-source USB sniffer https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/08/building-alex-taradovs-open-source-usb-sniffer/ 18 comments
- Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 5: graphics https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/06/upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-5-graphics/ 13 comments
- What happened with ASUS routers this morning? https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/05/what-happened-with-asus-routers-this-morning/ 450 comments
- Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 4: reboot/poweroff https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/03/upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-4-reboot-poweroff/ 10 comments
- Customizing the startup chime on a 1999 G3 iMac https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/03/customizing-the-startup-chime-on-a-1999-g3-imac/ 23 comments
- Upgrading my old Chumby 8 Linux kernel https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2022/12/upgrading-my-old-chumby-8-linux-kernel-part-1-u-boot/ 32 comments
- Solving my truck’s TPMS sensor problem with the help of an RTL-SDR dongle https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2022/08/solving-my-trucks-tpms-sensor-problem-with-the-help-of-an-rtl-sdr-dongle/ 122 comments
- Upgrading a motherboard’s BIOS/UEFI (the hard way) https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2021/12/upgrading-a-motherboards-bios-uefi-the-hard-way/ 31 comments
- Adventures of putting 16 GB RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it (2019) https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2019/04/adventures-of-putting-16-gb-of-ram-in-a-motherboard-that-doesnt-support-it/ 74 comments
- Tracking down a segfault that suddenly started happening https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2021/01/tracking-down-a-segfault-that-suddenly-started-happening/ 25 comments
- Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module in Linux 5.1 and newer https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2020/08/hacking-up-a-fix-for-the-broken-appletalk-kernel-module-in-linux-5-1-and-newer/ 40 comments
- Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2019/04/adventures-of-putting-16-gb-of-ram-in-a-motherboard-that-doesnt-support-it/ 178 comments
Lobsters
- Playing 1080p H.264 video on my old 256 MB Raspberry Pi https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/06/playing-1080p-h-264-video-on-my-old-256-mb-raspberry-pi/ 4 comments linux
- How Apple’s developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the ’90s https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/11/how-apples-developers-reflashed-mac-roms-in-the-90s/ 2 comments hardware , historical , reversing
- How am I supposed to safely disable this warning on ARM GCC? https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/09/how-am-i-supposed-to-safely-disable-this-warning-on-arm-gcc/ 3 comments compilers
- Upgrading a motherboard’s BIOS/UEFI (the hard way) https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2021/12/upgrading-a-motherboards-bios-uefi-the-hard-way/ 7 comments hardware
- Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2019/04/adventures-of-putting-16-gb-of-ram-in-a-motherboard-that-doesnt-support-it/ 3 comments hardware , linux , windows
- The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot up https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/ 17 comments programming
- The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot up https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/ 14 comments reverseengineering
- The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/11/the-capacitor-that-apple-soldered-incorrectly-at-the-factory/ 9 comments electronics
- Downtown Doug Brown » Why is my CPU usage always 100%? https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/04/why-is-my-cpu-usage-always-100-upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-9/ 6 comments programming
- Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/09/fixing-an-elgato-hd60-s-hdmi-capture-device-with-the-help-of-ghidra/ 11 comments reverseengineering
- Diagnosing and repairing a Brother fax/printer USB failure https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/04/diagnosing-and-repairing-a-brother-fax-printer-usb-failure/ 2 comments reverseengineering
- Solving my truck’s TPMS sensor problem with the help of an RTL-SDR dongle https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2022/08/solving-my-trucks-tpms-sensor-problem-with-the-help-of-an-rtl-sdr-dongle/ 7 comments reverseengineering
- Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2019/04/adventures-of-putting-16-gb-of-ram-in-a-motherboard-that-doesnt-support-it 17 comments programming
- Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2019/04/adventures-of-putting-16-gb-of-ram-in-a-motherboard-that-doesnt-support-it/ 150 comments programming
- Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2019/04/adventures-of-putting-16-gb-of-ram-in-a-motherboard-that-doesnt-support-it/ 90 comments hardware