Decoding the mir:ror comms protocol

As I wrote in a previous post, I have been trying to experimentally determine the control commands you can use with a violet mir:ror.

Hacking mir:ror on Linux

Some time ago, I bought a mir:ror from violet.net. The provided software for Mac and Linux is unfortunately very much beta-quality (which means decidedly flaky for those of you whose only experience of beta software was google mail). So I set out to see what could be done.

The perils of using a computer while drunk

We’ve all been there, I’m sure: you wake up, peel the keyboard off one side of your face and the pizza off the other then, about 5 minutes later, face some difficult question such as “where the hell is my root partition?”