I am thinking of going on a run tomorrow at some stage. I will not go too far since I am really still recovering from the minor case of the flu. About 3KM should be an easy run without pushing …
When I went to the post office today I had a parcel waiting for me. Unfortunately it was a COD parcel being returned – an eBay sale for a fingerprint reader. I have placed the auction back on eBay and …
Today’s probably fraudulant email… for a product that I do not sell… I will like to purchase LMR 400 coaxial cable for an urgent projects in Nigeria, Africa. Please kindly attach and send proforma invoice stating the quotation 1000meters price …
The IT industry has gone too far… here is a video card with 1 GByte of RAM. Most of my servers do not have that much ram. Things are going insane. News.com.au has a strange story about practices in Saudi …
So much for getting programing done… I have got hardware done but no software yet. Well, apart from what is needed to get some hardware working. I find it strange how people change things for no reason. For instance, Maxon …
Sometimes I hate blogger… There are times when I create an entry and post it, and then nothing happens. More correctly, it comes up with an error message. But What I tend to do when I submit the page is …
Slashdot is reporting to the world that the Labour Party wants to put content filters on all ISPs rather rely on parents loading software onto their PC. Adults would be able to ‘Opt Out’ of the filter under the plan. …
I will probably be adjusting my internet download limit for next month. I think I need more bandwidth for my link – some of my business activities are bandwidth intensive meaning that I need to increase the allocation. According to …
I have been fairly slack today writing in my Blog. Not that I have been too busy, but more that I have been distracted with other things. Like finishing the Clive Cussler book I have been reading. As expected it …
What is it with the MTV Australia Video Music Awards? Seems like everyone is trying to give away tickets to them. I got an email from SANITY MUSIC yesterday and they were giving away tickets. And NEWS.COM.AU were advertising tickets …
I have done some more debugging, and I think that I have tracked down the issue to a hardware problem. Somehow the hardware external to the processor module is causing strange problems to the Rabbit processor. I find this VERY …
I am tracking down the watchdog problem… Seems it could be related to the version of the compiler I am using… and related to writing to FLASH memory. Still working through this though… Sometimes I hate the RABBIT processor!
One of the things about Clive Cussler books is that he appears in all his books. That is, there is always a ‘Clive Cussler’ character in every book who the main character, Dirk Pit, ALWAYS meets up with. They can …
This afternoon I was doing some programming on a Rabbit controller… and something strange is happening. The unit has a ‘Watchdog Timer’ that is designed to restart the device if the software stops running. The problem is that the software …
Last week I had a programmer in to look at my code. He added one line of comments to one piece of code! Here it is… added to the original!if (strstr(line, “#PONG,”) == line){. // What do I do?. // …