Monday, December 30, 2013

Garden solar light teardown

Bought 3 cheap garden solar lights, each < 1.00 Eur just to see how do they work. One did not work from the start. Another stopped working after a weak. Third worked well during all summer.  
One had: circuit with a chip marked 5252F 1109, Ni-MH battery 2/3AA 300mAh 1.2V. Another with YX8018 0157 chip, Ni-MH battery 2/3 AAA 300mAh 1.2V.
Some Googling for those chips leads to these similar circuits:
5252F 电路图 
http://www.radio-ghe.com/0116.DCWandler.htm

 Lamps by them self, nothing special to disassemble, just few photos:



Thursday, December 26, 2013

Usefull free software

Avast antivirus
http://www.avast.com/index

Super Anti Spyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/

Microsoft AppLocale Utility - Microsoft AppLocale is a utility that allows Unicode (UTF-16) based Windows XP and 2003 users to run non-Unicode legacy (code-page based) applications without changing the current system locale. AppLocale automatically detects language for non-Unicode program and simulates a corresponding system locale for code-page to/from Unicode conversions.
Download 

Sandboxie
http://www.sandboxie.com/

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Debugging Oracle PL/SQL procedures using SQL Developer

1. Start SQL Developer and connect to DBMS.
2. Grant:
GRANT DEBUG CONNECT SESSION TO some_user;
GRANT DEBUG ANY PROCEDURE TO some_user;
3. Start remote debug, enter Port and IP address which is accessible from DBMS.
4. Execute "execute DBMS_DEBUG_JDWP.CONNECT_TCP('your ip',4000);".
5. Select procedure, add breakpoint, compile for debug.
6. debug procedure (ctrl+shif+f10), enter IP if needed.