HankB99

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by HankB99 9y ago
I wonder if we can get some DNA from it.
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by HankB99 9y ago
What about the benefit of using ECC RAM for a file server? I don't see that available in consumer grade H/W. (As far as network H/W I'm in full agreement.)
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by HankB99 9y ago
When our kids were little, all of their Lego pieces went into a plastic bathub that they could no longer take baths in. I can still hear the noise they made pawing[1] through all the pieces looking for just the right one for the present ass
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by HankB99 9y ago
The "Get Started For Free" button on the front page has an ominous ring to it. I wonder (hope!) that the free version available from FreeRTOS.org remains available w/out an AWS account.
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by HankB99 9y ago
Two models are common in embedded systems: "main loop" or RTOS. In the main loop model, once initialization is complete, the program loops indefinitely, servicing various functions. Since the developer is responsible for a larger
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by HankB99 9y ago
We live in the far western Chicago suburbs. When we moved here we got our water from a community well (operated by our town.) The water was very hard and in addition had a lot of sulfur and iron. (A water heater would change the sulfur comp
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by HankB99 9y ago
'fish' I take it is a shell (of which I remain ignorant.) I suppose that at the very least, it increases the attack surface on an installation and either makes security harder or the system less secure.
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by HankB99 9y ago
I tried that out of curiosity and did not have the same experience. I selected some text and when right clicked, got the typical copy/search/etc... dialog. I'm using Chrome on Linux with Ghostery and uBlock among other plugin
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by HankB99 9y ago
Last time I tried I was still unable to create the file '.gitignore' on Windows 10 using the file browser. It insisted that I enter a file name and did not consider '.gitignore' an acceptable file name. It is possible to
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by HankB99 9y ago
Interesting. In the SciFi series (and books) The Expanse the rail gun projectiles were tungsten. I thought it was just due to the heat resistance of tungsten but it might have been chosen by the authors for the additional property of densit
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by HankB99 9y ago
Noise. Most - if not all - of these chips have analog to digital convertors because most of the applications involve monitoring some sort of signal. There's going to at least a bit or two of noise in the signal (or if not otherwise use
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by HankB99 9y ago
Byte was my favorite magazine of all time - even better than Computer Shopper. ;) I remember the last page article - Stop Bit. One particularly memorable one described how various professionals would search for an elephant. Some I recall ar
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by HankB99 9y ago
Therein lie the problem. The caller ID system was not designed with the thought that callers might spoof numbers. I think it's time to revise the signaling protocols to make this not possible. If it is a world wide problem and the part
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by HankB99 9y ago
Gore is a political figure. He made a convenient target for the "no global warming" crowd. I do not see his actions as political but they were painted that way when "An Inconvenient Truth" came out. I don't see Gore
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by HankB99 9y ago
I wonder if they really did get the hinge right. The reason I ask is that I just replaced the wife's laptop because the hinges were stiff enough to beak the case around them (after years of use.) That was an economy model that we purch
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by HankB99 9y ago
Questions? 1) How do I configure my system to power down when I hit the power switch? (Hint: w/out patching and building Gnome.) A corollary of this question, I suppose, is why does a system function depend on a desktop which requires
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by HankB99 9y ago
Interesting coincidence (or maybe not...) Redis was discussed on the Floss podcast that I listened to earlier today and now I have an inkling of what Redis is. My first exposure to Redis was to ponder where it came from after I tried to run
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by HankB99 9y ago
I started to read the article but found the font too distracting. tl;dr I guess. I see that my devices get IPV6 and IPV4 addresses. Beyond that I don't know "if it works." From outside my firewall (pfSense) I wouldn't kn
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by HankB99 9y ago
There are! I Googled for "online query answerer" and there were 131,000 results.
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by HankB99 9y ago
>>The problem, though, is that while the raccoons do fine around humans and even in cities, large predators like coyotes and bobcats don't. http://coyotemap.com/ We're just to the left of center on that map
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by HankB99 9y ago
That's hilarious!
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by HankB99 9y ago
I'm a former C++ programmer (I haven't had an assignment that used C++ for years, though I pressed for a limited subset on a recent embedded system) I likely never reached the sophistication of most of the respondents here and my
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by HankB99 10y ago
I'm between jobs at the moment at least partly becaue I pushed back.
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by HankB99 10y ago
I wonder if this will provide a benefit in a resource constrained environment. I run the official Gitlab Docker/gitlab-ce container in a host with a J1900 processor and 4GB RAM and it is barely usable. Most pages timeout on the first l
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by HankB99 10y ago
Yeah. I was working on an IoT system that uses NTP to set time. I generally plan a 20 year life span for tings like this. There's S/W I wrote over 20 years ago that is in devices still in use. The only good thing about this is tha
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by HankB99 11y ago
Relentless application of logic. Probably says something about my coding practices that I've gotten good at it.
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by HankB99 11y ago
Maybe I'm dreaming this... Trying to install some Python package on Windows 8.1 and 'the usual' stuff didn't work. I'm a python newb and maybe I wasn't doing something right. I'm more used to Linux/Pe
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by HankB99 11y ago
IANAUIE (guess what that stands for. ;) ) Yet I am primarily responsible for the UI on the product on which I'm writing code. I started out with a bland and crappy interface expecting the client to look at that and provide their brandi
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by HankB99 11y ago
I don't know about hardest working, but certainly most effective (and no pun intended.) I got more out of his books than any others, possibly except for "The Unix Programming Environment" and "Unix Network Programming.&q
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by HankB99 11y ago
Reminds me of a similar situation. We were working on a device powered by what looked like a 6 pack of 16 Oz cans caps charged to 500V. SCRs controlled the discharge of the capacitors into the device and caps were charged in opposite polari

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