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?. // …
You have to admit that I get some strange comments left of my WWW site. Some of this is Comment SPAM, but others… Well, if you can work it out then you are better than me. The text was email: …
Today has been fairly quiet – although I do not know if that is because I wanted it to be quiet because I was recovering from some minor flu symptoms, or if it has just turned out that way. It …
I have just had an early lunch of Thai food, and it was HOT. I had three big glasses of water and really it was still not enough. I will go up and grab some milk as soon as I …
I am feeling a whole lot better today. Not that I was feeling all that bad yesterday, or that I am feeling 100% today; but I am feeling a lot better. I still have a tiny bit of puffiness around …
One of my friends just asked me a great question. How do you uninstall old versions of Windows Messenger. Well go to ‘Start | Control Panel | Add and Remove Programs’. Then on the left side there is an option …
The good thing about having a laptop is that it can be used around all around the house. Everywhere. And right now I am about to start reading so I am just adding this entry lying on my bed before …
I have just got off the phone with a Matrix Stream from Canada who have produced an IP Television Set Top Box and entire IPTV server system. I guess you would call the whole thing VOD or Video On Demand …
Now, after a sleep and lunch I am feeling a bit better. I am still feeling slightly flu-y though. So in order to relax I have been watching some TV… in this case it is Brainiac – a show that …