To my absolute surprise, the Sitecom CN-502 USB Bluetooth Dongle works perfectly with out-of-the-box Fedora Core 4 x86_64. The lsusb output shows it’s a Cambridge Silicon Radio chip (0a12:0001) which is very widely used and well supported.

I bought this thing some time ago because of its protruding aerial; my original intention was to dismantle it and add a huge-gain antenna – Car Whisperer-esque – but I just haven’t got around to doing it.

The lsusb output:

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

For completeness, here is the rest of my config:

$ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 #1 Thu Jan 5 22:13:55 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ rpm -q -a | grep -i bluez
bluez-hcidump-1.18-1
bluez-utils-2.15-7
bluez-pin-0.24-2
bluez-libs-2.15-1

And it working:

$ /etc/init.d/bluetooth start
Starting Bluetooth services: [ OK ]
$ hcitool scan
Scanning ...
00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX XXXXXXXX

Not bad since I found it in a bargain bucket!

Related Links:

Sitecom CN-502 Product Support

This is the first release of a prototype plugin I wrote to detect incoming requests from search engines and highlight the words in your posts that match the search terms. It also detects local searches with Wordpress and highlights those terms too.

Installation is simple, copy search-terms-highlighter-plugin.php into your Wordpress plugins directory and Activate the plugin from your Admin screen.

FEATURES:

- Automatically highlights search terms used from Google, MSN & Yahoo
- Automatically highlights search terms used in local Wordpress searches

LIMITATIONS:

- The Highlight colour is hard coded to Yellow
- Only ‘detects’ search query strings from known search engines

TODO:

- Add options page to allow configuration of highlight colours
- Support different highlight colours for each search term
- Support DHTML/JS ’switching off’ of highlighting
- More generic query string parser to support unknown search engines
- The preg_replace in sth_plugin_the_content can be optimised to replace all keywords in one operation

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