I am human; a temporal physical manifestation of the universes' energy, momentarily made flesh. Human, the living contradiction.
I am simultaneously more gullible and more cunning than you. Simultaneously more naive and more wise than you. I am both the embodiment of chaos, and the keeper of vast wisdom. The sum of myriad tiny cellular creatures, and the single being who's potential is boundless.
I am the promoter of life, the bringer of death. The tool maker, the destroyer. The inventor of God, the unmaker of Gods; the bearer of all luck, and the focus of all unfortunate events. I am the dream of the universe, alive to wreak change upon the state of reality.
Who am I?
I am human, hear me and know the reason you fear the night.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Or perhaps, disregarding sex, age, color, place of origin, body, ego, memory, all those trivial things... perhaps I could sum it up better simply with "I AM".
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
"City of Ember" Critique
"City of Ember" Critique
(for those of you who know me, this may bear a few similarities to my rant about Fallout 3)
First, full disclosure: If there's a book, I haven't read it and apologize in advance to the author. This is about the movie.
200+ years went by... and the city, apparently, stagnated...
Over 200 years and nobody built a new light-bulb? No tunnels were dug? No mining occurred? Nothing? Really??
As near as I can figure, the City of Ember was put together at the very last minute on a shoestring budget, and into it they crammed the least-motivated least intelligent dregs of society. It wasn't mankind's hope for the future, I suspect it was more like "well, just in case all the other plans fail, maybe these people will survive or something."
A damn cruise ship is better equipped for survival then the City of Ember was!! No machine-shops to make replacement parts? Really?? No light-source fabrication? No circuit-board construction? No computers? You must be kidding. And the food... apparently a couple green-houses and tons of canned goods.
They had answering machines--which required programmed microprocessors (which means a fictional setting of at least 1960AD or later). Manufacturing microprocessors--even primitive ones--isn't hugely difficult if you have the right equipment. A few computing devices would have aided them immensely, but no, none of that.
Things which might have aided the city: The ability to make pipes, perhaps? A bare minimum of equipment for the mining, refining, smelting, and machining the rocks around the cave into usable things. Supplies for doing chemistry things--the right metals and chemicals and you can make circuit boards, gears, valves, wiring, tons of things any post-industrial age society could find millions of uses for... but no.
In 200 years any industrious people would have secured, cleared and lit a large nearby cave (or three) and produced a bountiful garden which more than met all the food needs of the populace. (Though, given the planning, I'd bet they didn't have any plant seeds which weren't brought in by accident.) They had apparently one or two potato-growing greenhouses. Good thing somebody thought to bring a raw potato with them, else the city's inhabitants would likely have starved to death 150 years earlier.
ONE generator. A single hydroelectric generator--with no capacitive in-line power retention is supposed to run the city for 200 years. Nobody thought it would be good to give the citizens the plans/parts to construct additional generators along the river which flows under/thru the city?
And worse yet--they decided to maintain the a few of the worst ills of society for some stupid reason in the ill-conceived shoe-string budget survival city: money (why?), and a large standing army of "security" thugs who apparently exist to break things and intimidate the populace. And worse, inefficient bureaucratic nonsense. It feels like perhaps the City of Ember served the same purpose as the "second space-ship" in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy--you know, the one that was full of middlemen and phone polishers.
Anyhow, those thugs should have been mining new tunnels, refining minerals, making new lights with which to grow out the humans' underground demesne, damming the river for the additional newly-constructed hydroelectric power plants, helping mulch waste biological material for the gardens... really, anything other than breaking things and intimidating the populace.
So yeah, I guess that's about it. Lots of time and people, and nothing accomplished aside from squeezing out an bare existence--well at least they managed to make yarn in a variety of bright colors.
(for those of you who know me, this may bear a few similarities to my rant about Fallout 3)
First, full disclosure: If there's a book, I haven't read it and apologize in advance to the author. This is about the movie.
200+ years went by... and the city, apparently, stagnated...
Over 200 years and nobody built a new light-bulb? No tunnels were dug? No mining occurred? Nothing? Really??
As near as I can figure, the City of Ember was put together at the very last minute on a shoestring budget, and into it they crammed the least-motivated least intelligent dregs of society. It wasn't mankind's hope for the future, I suspect it was more like "well, just in case all the other plans fail, maybe these people will survive or something."
A damn cruise ship is better equipped for survival then the City of Ember was!! No machine-shops to make replacement parts? Really?? No light-source fabrication? No circuit-board construction? No computers? You must be kidding. And the food... apparently a couple green-houses and tons of canned goods.
They had answering machines--which required programmed microprocessors (which means a fictional setting of at least 1960AD or later). Manufacturing microprocessors--even primitive ones--isn't hugely difficult if you have the right equipment. A few computing devices would have aided them immensely, but no, none of that.
Things which might have aided the city: The ability to make pipes, perhaps? A bare minimum of equipment for the mining, refining, smelting, and machining the rocks around the cave into usable things. Supplies for doing chemistry things--the right metals and chemicals and you can make circuit boards, gears, valves, wiring, tons of things any post-industrial age society could find millions of uses for... but no.
In 200 years any industrious people would have secured, cleared and lit a large nearby cave (or three) and produced a bountiful garden which more than met all the food needs of the populace. (Though, given the planning, I'd bet they didn't have any plant seeds which weren't brought in by accident.) They had apparently one or two potato-growing greenhouses. Good thing somebody thought to bring a raw potato with them, else the city's inhabitants would likely have starved to death 150 years earlier.
ONE generator. A single hydroelectric generator--with no capacitive in-line power retention is supposed to run the city for 200 years. Nobody thought it would be good to give the citizens the plans/parts to construct additional generators along the river which flows under/thru the city?
And worse yet--they decided to maintain the a few of the worst ills of society for some stupid reason in the ill-conceived shoe-string budget survival city: money (why?), and a large standing army of "security" thugs who apparently exist to break things and intimidate the populace. And worse, inefficient bureaucratic nonsense. It feels like perhaps the City of Ember served the same purpose as the "second space-ship" in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy--you know, the one that was full of middlemen and phone polishers.
Anyhow, those thugs should have been mining new tunnels, refining minerals, making new lights with which to grow out the humans' underground demesne, damming the river for the additional newly-constructed hydroelectric power plants, helping mulch waste biological material for the gardens... really, anything other than breaking things and intimidating the populace.
So yeah, I guess that's about it. Lots of time and people, and nothing accomplished aside from squeezing out an bare existence--well at least they managed to make yarn in a variety of bright colors.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Advice for future developers:
Soon, I'll occupy a shiny new office. It's been a learning experience.
When moving from one office building to another, moving a computer & backup hard-drive containing your docs & code-base is far easier than moving dead-tree copies of same.
To pacify programmers' rebellions, it's best to hold off moving the computers until you have internet setup and the facilities cabled and ready to go.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Linux-fu!
Anybody know a master of embedded Linux who might spare some sympathy troubleshooting for a poor Linux acolyte who might be a little out of his depth?
(I mean me--the acolyte, not the master.)
Just because I've successfully built one product based on embedded Linux, my boss expects me to kinda be able to whip them out now--but my level of mastery is far from awesome. I'm still coming to grips with many of the whizzy bits, not yet having time to learn the snazze-bangs!
If you're reading this, please think some good thoughts into the past (like pictures, every photo of you is a picture of you in the past) and hopefully the combined psychic energy of my eventual cult-like following after I die a beloved artist/dictator/liberator/inventor/other will sway the tide of this battle.
Respect.
(I mean me--the acolyte, not the master.)
Just because I've successfully built one product based on embedded Linux, my boss expects me to kinda be able to whip them out now--but my level of mastery is far from awesome. I'm still coming to grips with many of the whizzy bits, not yet having time to learn the snazze-bangs!
If you're reading this, please think some good thoughts into the past (like pictures, every photo of you is a picture of you in the past) and hopefully the combined psychic energy of my eventual cult-like following after I die a beloved artist/dictator/liberator/inventor/other will sway the tide of this battle.
Respect.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Spring Fever
Spent the weekend teaching my brother about media servers and how he didn't need to ruin discs by having them where his younglings can get to them...
For those of you who are Windows Lüzers, tversity is a good place to get started.
(Tuesday) PHP blues...
(Wednesday) Decided to give Sabayon Linux a shot. Rediscovered my enjoyment of MC Chris' music today...
(Thursday) Got a grasp on php session stuff...
(Friday) Just work, early day due to spring fever.
Weekend Anime: "Aquarion" A rather cute giant-robot battling epic ancient evil anime which is also all about threesomes.
For those of you who are Windows Lüzers, tversity is a good place to get started.
(Tuesday) PHP blues...
(Wednesday) Decided to give Sabayon Linux a shot. Rediscovered my enjoyment of MC Chris' music today...
(Thursday) Got a grasp on php session stuff...
(Friday) Just work, early day due to spring fever.
Weekend Anime: "Aquarion" A rather cute giant-robot battling epic ancient evil anime which is also all about threesomes.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Regex funinations!
(Monday) Turns out, if you're coding up a little bash script in busy box, the regular expressions enclosed with '[ ]' and the one prefaced with 'expr' are evaluated in slightly different ways.
'expr' seems to be the more comprehensive of the two.
(Tuesday) Spent the day putting out 'your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency for me' type fires. I'd have rather said "tough, deal with it" but then somebody'd just shitty it up, and that dog don't hunt.
And then there was birthday cake (not my birthday) and the day got better.
(Wednesday) Kinda looking forward to the new X-Com reboot (I was a HUGE fan of the original), as well as the next SimCity.
Saw the "new" Windows 8--it looks like the ripped off the interface Ubuntu as been developing and using for a year or so... Poor windows suckers, paying money for 2nd rate copy-cat software with free bugs & security holes! Don't they know they can have a secure operating system for free?
Pro tip: You can run a web script from the command line. If your script isn't working right, try this and you'll generally get an idea of why it isn't working right.
(Thursday) As usual, Internet Explorer has to be the one that doesn't work. Apparently it's iffy about sending its $HTTP_REFERRER for some stupid reason.
Hmm, have to scrap my entire 'lite security' setup because of IE. Looking into "HTTP Authentication"
(Friday) Finished the anime "El Cazador de la Bruja" last night. Gave it 3 of 5.
(Monday) Turns out, if you're coding up a little bash script in busy box, the regular expressions enclosed with '[ ]' and the one prefaced with 'expr' are evaluated in slightly different ways.
'expr' seems to be the more comprehensive of the two.
(Tuesday) Spent the day putting out 'your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency for me' type fires. I'd have rather said "tough, deal with it" but then somebody'd just shitty it up, and that dog don't hunt.
And then there was birthday cake (not my birthday) and the day got better.
(Wednesday) Kinda looking forward to the new X-Com reboot (I was a HUGE fan of the original), as well as the next SimCity.
Saw the "new" Windows 8--it looks like the ripped off the interface Ubuntu as been developing and using for a year or so... Poor windows suckers, paying money for 2nd rate copy-cat software with free bugs & security holes! Don't they know they can have a secure operating system for free?
Pro tip: You can run a web script from the command line. If your script isn't working right, try this and you'll generally get an idea of why it isn't working right.
(Thursday) As usual, Internet Explorer has to be the one that doesn't work. Apparently it's iffy about sending its $HTTP_REFERRER for some stupid reason.
Hmm, have to scrap my entire 'lite security' setup because of IE. Looking into "HTTP Authentication"
(Friday) Finished the anime "El Cazador de la Bruja" last night. Gave it 3 of 5.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Phone Shenanigans...
My HTC Amaze (awesome Android phone) had some glitch reset near the end of last week. Afterwards, it was running hot and burning thru the battery in almost no time flat. Worried, almost panicked, the solution came to me in the middle of the night; turn it off. Take out the battery, let it cool, turn it back on.
And, that did it! My phone is once again acting like itself.
(Monday) Still working on server-side cgi scripting for embedded Linux. Fun/tough stuff.
(Tuesday) Ugh! There's tons to know in order to master bash scripts...
If you're making a cgi script and some commands are working (like cat & ls) and others aren't (like 'wc') try adding the full path to the non-working command (/usr/bin/wc) and if that fixes it, it means you need to modify the CGIPath in your boa.conf file. (And then restart your boa webserver)
(Wednesday) Exciting news! The 'Raspberry Pi' $35 Linux computer began shipping today! www.raspberrypi.org/
(Thursday) Today I learned there are a few marked differences between the busybox "bash" and the normal Linux bash. Namely: functions in bash scripts. In busybox, it's a no-go.
(Friday) Came & went...
This weekend's anime: Orphen (3.5 of 5) & 'Oh! Edo Rocket' (4.5 of 5).
My HTC Amaze (awesome Android phone) had some glitch reset near the end of last week. Afterwards, it was running hot and burning thru the battery in almost no time flat. Worried, almost panicked, the solution came to me in the middle of the night; turn it off. Take out the battery, let it cool, turn it back on.
And, that did it! My phone is once again acting like itself.
(Monday) Still working on server-side cgi scripting for embedded Linux. Fun/tough stuff.
(Tuesday) Ugh! There's tons to know in order to master bash scripts...
If you're making a cgi script and some commands are working (like cat & ls) and others aren't (like 'wc') try adding the full path to the non-working command (/usr/bin/wc) and if that fixes it, it means you need to modify the CGIPath in your boa.conf file. (And then restart your boa webserver)
(Wednesday) Exciting news! The 'Raspberry Pi' $35 Linux computer began shipping today! www.raspberrypi.org/
(Thursday) Today I learned there are a few marked differences between the busybox "bash" and the normal Linux bash. Namely: functions in bash scripts. In busybox, it's a no-go.
(Friday) Came & went...
This weekend's anime: Orphen (3.5 of 5) & 'Oh! Edo Rocket' (4.5 of 5).
Friday, February 24, 2012
President's Day!
Grrr. I dislike useless holidays--the kind where the bus isn't running normally but I do not get the day off work. Had to walk 3 miles to get there. (Monday)
Learned I can do cgi scripts in my embedded Linux devices as simply as throwing in a bash script! Happy I discovered this, wish I'd figured it out sooner. (Tuesday)
Bash scripts cannot handle non-integer math... (Wednesday)
Late getting to work. _sigh_
Pro-tip: If you've used buildroot to assemble a Linux OS for your embedded device and need to cross-compile some c code to run on said device, you can use:
/path/to/buildroot/output/hosrt/usr/bin/arm-linux-gcc
I spent literally 3 days (on & off) trying to find that particular bit of info. You're welcome.
Was super excited to see the tekkit (modded minecraft) server pack is up! I've installed a test-server on my rig and once it's ready will be trying to move my players to it...
Hey, when coding in C, if some function that should be in there isn't working, check you're included headers. And then, check again.
(Thursday)
Didn't get home till near midnight last night--stupid bus system. Today, arrived late. Feels like I have a hot knife in my left temple... _sigh_ Hoping for a good weekend.
(Friday)
Grrr. I dislike useless holidays--the kind where the bus isn't running normally but I do not get the day off work. Had to walk 3 miles to get there. (Monday)
Learned I can do cgi scripts in my embedded Linux devices as simply as throwing in a bash script! Happy I discovered this, wish I'd figured it out sooner. (Tuesday)
Bash scripts cannot handle non-integer math... (Wednesday)
Late getting to work. _sigh_
Pro-tip: If you've used buildroot to assemble a Linux OS for your embedded device and need to cross-compile some c code to run on said device, you can use:
/path/to/buildroot/output/hosrt/usr/bin/arm-linux-gcc
I spent literally 3 days (on & off) trying to find that particular bit of info. You're welcome.
Was super excited to see the tekkit (modded minecraft) server pack is up! I've installed a test-server on my rig and once it's ready will be trying to move my players to it...
Hey, when coding in C, if some function that should be in there isn't working, check you're included headers. And then, check again.
(Thursday)
Didn't get home till near midnight last night--stupid bus system. Today, arrived late. Feels like I have a hot knife in my left temple... _sigh_ Hoping for a good weekend.
(Friday)
Monday, February 20, 2012
--sick days--
Tuesday: Valentine's day, back to work after 3.8 days, 1.8 of which were sick days. Stupid nasty cold/flu thing...
Thursday: Major brain strain, troubleshooting cellular connectivity issues... Learning to compile c code for a different type of ARM processor... Anybody out there have any insight on how to compile for an AT91SAM9G20 processor?
Anyhow, not much this week. Have some music:
Tuesday: Valentine's day, back to work after 3.8 days, 1.8 of which were sick days. Stupid nasty cold/flu thing...
Thursday: Major brain strain, troubleshooting cellular connectivity issues... Learning to compile c code for a different type of ARM processor... Anybody out there have any insight on how to compile for an AT91SAM9G20 processor?
Anyhow, not much this week. Have some music:
Friday, February 10, 2012
Router Blues
This weekend I bought a small, cheap switch so I could connect more wired devices to my router...
Got a "new" (to me) computer to run my minecraft server on--it's now much more stable.
My last weigh-in was 256.0 lbs. I've been counting my calories (and so on) for over two years and slowly but surely losing weight.
Tuesday: Today, I learned what a 'CGI' is, in reference to web development... means 'common gateway interface' and apparently its function is to let coders make something which interfaces with web servers! Wooo!
If you do any coding or scripting, here's a couple links which pointed me in the right direction:
http://farm2440.blogspot.com/2011/06/creating-web-interface.html
http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/cgi/
Wednesday: Discovered 'jquery' very cool web development tool.
Thursday: I *hate* Internet Explorer. Any time I'm making anything web related, I must take several extra steps to make sure it works with IE--everything else works fine, just not IE... no, IE needs extra crap just to work right.
Friday: And illness strikes... but I went to work anyhow.
Reality being what it is... my reliable old router has been all sorts of whacky lately, so I'll be teaching a 2-ethernet port computer to be a router and just hooking the switch to that. I'll let you know how it goes.
Got a "new" (to me) computer to run my minecraft server on--it's now much more stable.
My last weigh-in was 256.0 lbs. I've been counting my calories (and so on) for over two years and slowly but surely losing weight.
Tuesday: Today, I learned what a 'CGI' is, in reference to web development... means 'common gateway interface' and apparently its function is to let coders make something which interfaces with web servers! Wooo!
If you do any coding or scripting, here's a couple links which pointed me in the right direction:
http://farm2440.blogspot.com/2011/06/creating-web-interface.html
http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/cgi/
Wednesday: Discovered 'jquery' very cool web development tool.
Thursday: I *hate* Internet Explorer. Any time I'm making anything web related, I must take several extra steps to make sure it works with IE--everything else works fine, just not IE... no, IE needs extra crap just to work right.
Friday: And illness strikes... but I went to work anyhow.
Reality being what it is... my reliable old router has been all sorts of whacky lately, so I'll be teaching a 2-ethernet port computer to be a router and just hooking the switch to that. I'll let you know how it goes.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Monday, Monday!
So, this weekend I moved my minecraft server to a dedicated machine--as opposed to "crashey" my computer. Sadly, in order to wire it to the network I had to disconnect the PS3 from the wired ethernet and connect it to wifi. _sigh_ First world problems, I guess.
Plus, totally forgot the add an SSH server to the minecraft-server... so while it's running fine at the moment, I'll have to move it to my keyboard/monitor in order to correct that.
Mentally debating getting a cheap switch to go with the router...
Tuesday: Due to the modem & router being lumped together; both were over-heating and causing intermittent flakiness of the internet connection. Separated them and now it's better.
Plus, totally got home to discover the *new* minecraft server's hard-drive had gone kaput. So, spent two hours installing Ubuntu server, ssh, samba, java, and the latest bukkit jar on a hard-drive which was just hanging about. Restored from the backup made last Sunday--and up and running again.
Wednesday:
Piracy the excuse, creating the "crime" so they can get laws passed http://youtu.be/WJIuYgIvKsc
Recently found out Blogger (Google's Blogger) has started a by-country censorship program... which sucks, 'cause I totally dig Google.
Thursday:
Ugh, I think I sprained my brain yesterday--it still hurts today.
Today I learned one can use 'ssh -X' and be able to launch graphical x-server apps via ssh connection. Very cool.
Friday:
Nothing to report. Stay strong y'all.
-Stray Thoughts-
Inspired by this video:
http://www.dump.com/2012/02/01/how-to-destroy-a-washing-machine-video/
How hard would (self balancing) spinning device be? We could use it on washing machines and car tires...
So, this weekend I moved my minecraft server to a dedicated machine--as opposed to "crashey" my computer. Sadly, in order to wire it to the network I had to disconnect the PS3 from the wired ethernet and connect it to wifi. _sigh_ First world problems, I guess.
Plus, totally forgot the add an SSH server to the minecraft-server... so while it's running fine at the moment, I'll have to move it to my keyboard/monitor in order to correct that.
Mentally debating getting a cheap switch to go with the router...
Tuesday: Due to the modem & router being lumped together; both were over-heating and causing intermittent flakiness of the internet connection. Separated them and now it's better.
Plus, totally got home to discover the *new* minecraft server's hard-drive had gone kaput. So, spent two hours installing Ubuntu server, ssh, samba, java, and the latest bukkit jar on a hard-drive which was just hanging about. Restored from the backup made last Sunday--and up and running again.
Wednesday:
Piracy the excuse, creating the "crime" so they can get laws passed http://youtu.be/WJIuYgIvKsc
Recently found out Blogger (Google's Blogger) has started a by-country censorship program... which sucks, 'cause I totally dig Google.
Thursday:
Ugh, I think I sprained my brain yesterday--it still hurts today.
Today I learned one can use 'ssh -X' and be able to launch graphical x-server apps via ssh connection. Very cool.
Friday:
Nothing to report. Stay strong y'all.
-Stray Thoughts-
Inspired by this video:
http://www.dump.com/2012/02/01/how-to-destroy-a-washing-machine-video/
How hard would (self balancing) spinning device be? We could use it on washing machines and car tires...
Friday, January 27, 2012
Cranial Detritus...
I hate my stupid teeth. I've been a walking ball of dental pain for awhile now. Why does everything in the line of quality dental work cost so frigging much? Thankfully, that kind of thing rarely lasts more than a week, so by this weekend I'll be feeling better.
Updated my minecraft server to 1.1 (since bukkit released their 1.1)
If you play and need a new spot to chill, hit it up--senacharim.hopto.me Please be polite, and no griefing.
Short post this week--too busy working to put any of my good thoughts into print. Oh well, there will be later.
-=Ideas=-
Hotlist App: For smart phones--an app which automatically ranks for you which apps you use the most--and also provides a quick shortcut to same said apps.
Could also find grander use in voluntarily shared data a'la "(blank) was the most used app among x phone users in the month of January" or somesuch, with valid claims to high degrees of accuracy.
--
Thinker Code Monkey (Über cool!)
http://www.cafepress.com/
Feel like being awesome? I like bitcoins...
http://www.bitcoinplus.com/
Friday, January 20, 2012
This week, I discovered the joy that is Penny Arcade TV.
In the world of C coding, does anybody out there have an elegant lite-weight way to programmatically mount USB drives which your embedded ARM Linux automatically detects but doesn't mount? Just curious... I ended up doing a cyclic "is there /dev/sd?" check and then just calling the "mount" command in the system... tis ugly but effective.
Seeing as I kinda jot down whatever I'm thinking in this to-be blog post per diem--today many websites I normally visit as part of my "morning coffee" lineup have gone dark in protest of SOPA/PIPA. Good! The ants need not be afraid once they realize they outnumber their erstwhile masters 50 million to one... but no ranting on that.
Stray thoughts: Try new things. Especially if you're an older business, like the MPAA or the RIAA. Try not to blame others for your own inability to adapt.
Product idea: PC Bad Power Supply alarm. Connects twixt the computer's powers supply & 24-pin ATX connector. Makes loud noise if/when voltage does funny things--could end up saving you hundreds or thousands on computer parts--should be able to make them for like $10 each after initial development is done.
Anyhow, that's all for this week, happy Friday everybody.
--
Thinker Code Monkey (Über cool!)
http://www.cafepress.com/
Feel like being awesome? I like bitcoins...
http://www.bitcoinplus.com/
In the world of C coding, does anybody out there have an elegant lite-weight way to programmatically mount USB drives which your embedded ARM Linux automatically detects but doesn't mount? Just curious... I ended up doing a cyclic "is there /dev/sd?" check and then just calling the "mount" command in the system... tis ugly but effective.
Seeing as I kinda jot down whatever I'm thinking in this to-be blog post per diem--today many websites I normally visit as part of my "morning coffee" lineup have gone dark in protest of SOPA/PIPA. Good! The ants need not be afraid once they realize they outnumber their erstwhile masters 50 million to one... but no ranting on that.
Stray thoughts: Try new things. Especially if you're an older business, like the MPAA or the RIAA. Try not to blame others for your own inability to adapt.
Product idea: PC Bad Power Supply alarm. Connects twixt the computer's powers supply & 24-pin ATX connector. Makes loud noise if/when voltage does funny things--could end up saving you hundreds or thousands on computer parts--should be able to make them for like $10 each after initial development is done.
Anyhow, that's all for this week, happy Friday everybody.
--
Thinker Code Monkey (Über cool!)
http://www.cafepress.com/
Feel like being awesome? I like bitcoins...
http://www.bitcoinplus.com/
Monday, January 16, 2012
Short week update
Exciting news! Microchip has begun offering a native Linux compiler for their PIC lines!
Lately, I seem to have accidentally memorised my credit card number...
Anyhow, memory handling in C is some tough stuff. My C code is rusty--almost tetanus rusty. But, with the rate I'm applying myself it'll by shiny again in no time.
Guess not much this week... more to come.
--
Thinker Code Monkey (Über cool!)
Feel like being awesome? I like bitcoins...
Lately, I seem to have accidentally memorised my credit card number...
Anyhow, memory handling in C is some tough stuff. My C code is rusty--almost tetanus rusty. But, with the rate I'm applying myself it'll by shiny again in no time.
Guess not much this week... more to come.
--
Thinker Code Monkey (Über cool!)
Feel like being awesome? I like bitcoins...
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