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Today ends a chapter in my life. I’m done with the travel and teaching. It was surprising to recently get a rental car with the license, “653 YRS” because, while I haven’t been teaching for that long, the last decade … Continue reading
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I recently taught a class to some of the software engineers who write the in-flight software for the Global Hawk. The UAV flies at up to 60,000 feet and can “loiter” over an interesting location for 23 hours beaming live … Continue reading
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I’ve turned off user-registrations at another web-site I maintain. Apparently it was recently added to some mainland China “easy mark” list and was being probed with a new, non-human registration attempt every few minutes. While relatively harmless because each such … Continue reading
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In computer-ese, many punctuation marks have special names. This makes it easier for geeks to read aloud certain computer languages. For example, the number sign or pound character (“#”) is pronounced “crunch” and the exclamation point (“!”) is a “bang” … Continue reading
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Cthulhu found in the C programming language!
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At the monthly Drupal Users Group meeting last night, ten “show me something useful” plebes of various ages and ethnic heritages listened to a major league heavy hitter flex his super-nerd intellectual muscle. (Not either of the duo seen here.) … Continue reading
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Four days this week and then the same next week, I’ll be teaching via laptop and headset. This week it’s hard real-time and next week it’ll be harder real-time – avionics. The difference is in dealing with the inevitable “Oops!” … Continue reading
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I’m starting work on a new website and have locked down the domain. It’s going to be a multi-faceted website, only some of which will be blog-like, so WordPress is out. And having previously tried, and rejected, Joomla!, I’m going … Continue reading
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After a high school field trip in the mid 1960s to see a digital computer, my electronics teacher said, “Digital computers will never last.” “Analog computers,” he went on, “are faster, more reliable and have some practical uses besides accounting … Continue reading
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I just increased the hard drive in my Dell E6410 notebook running Windows 7 from the previous 150 Gb to a full Terabyte. Total expense is right at $100. Boy, do I have “free space”! But there *IS* a trick. … Continue reading