Bodhi Linux FTW! Ubuntu LTS base with rolling E17 updates! It's as fast as any and fancy as you want it. It is also very easy to configure, and they have great documentation!
That is the only time I've ever seen anyone do anything from under a BGA package. Plus the 4th row of a 416 ball BGA device with 1mm pitch. The package was 0.5 mm from the PCB! Installed directly to the PCB with the 4 little wires disappearing underneath! The balls are in a row instead of offset, so the wire didn't have to zig zag in between rows, but with 1mm balls of solder 1 mm apart before it dropped down over 0.5mm during soldering, so there cannot be much room for the wires between the balls!
If anyone here can honestly do that kind of rework, my hats off to you! Please link a picture of your work!
I could do the 0402 and every other type of leaded SMT package without magnification much easier before my laser surgery. I was horribly nearsighted, around a 6 inch max focal length with my naked eyes, but it was like having a built in microscope! I wouldn't trade it back through for the other 99.9 % of the time that I enjoy my 20/10 vision (not to mention being out of the fumes!) I can still solder them all with only safety glasses on, but I like to double check under magnification as I would rather be absolutely sure of my work. I look them all over a couple times anyways before doing any testing so I know what I'm looking at if they ever come back! Some of the 0.5mm stuff have some pretty beefy pins on them, and its hard to be sure they're not touching because sometimes it looks like they are all touching!
It's fun to teach the co-ops, and the new hires how to do them when they come and ask for help. With the right tools, training, and guidance, its easy to pick up. But the BGA still amazes me!
That is the only time I've ever seen anyone do anything from under a BGA package. That's the 4th row of a 416 ball BGA device with 1mm pitch. The package was 0.5 mm from the PCB! The balls are in a row instead of offset, so the wire didn't have to zig zag in between rows, but the balls are that much closer in that configuration!
If anyone here can honestly do that kind of rework, my hats off to you!
I could do the 0402 without magnification before my laser surgery. I was horribly nearsighted, around a 8 inch max focal length with my naked eyes, but it was like having a built in microscope! I wouldn't trade it back through for the other 99.9 % of the time that I enjoy my 20/10 vision (not to mention being out of the fumes!)
I remember seeing old footage on Discovery or similar channel, and the camera would take long sweeping pictures that had to be synchronized with its movements, be it with a plane or early satellite.
It did not appear to fold up, but it did had a very big lens!
They showed lots of video of the Polaroid spy cameras.
I got a reworked prototype ECU from Motorola that had 4 really tiny wires coming out from underneath the MPC555 processor. Some of them from the 4th row in on the BGA! There was more stuff rerouted under the chip as well!
Now I'm a pretty darn good solderer, and not too bad at rework, but I really really wanted to shake the guys (super steady) hand that pulled that one off!
I hold and type on my laptop all the time the same way, and even though I have a tablet, I still prefer setting my laptop on my lap, and not having to hold anything! Especially in bed, or anywhere lying down!
When I was young I had this minibike that I bought at a garage sale, and it was my test bed for modified engines of all types! The only time it ever scared me was with an engine that I had made during my study halls in the metal shop out of a converted GM radial air conditioning compressor from a car. We took one apart in auto shop and I thought "now thats how you build an engine right there!" so I asked my two shop teachers about what they thought of such an animal, and they gave me everything I could ask for to make it happen. I whittled and lathed lots and lots of parts, and my two shop teachers helped too with getting whatever materials I needed to make it run (tore apart lots of small engines they new would contain helpful parts)
I got to run it in the parking lot at school, and it didn't last long, but it was much more powerful than any other engine I could stuff in that frame! Motocross bike (YZ 490), snowmobile (440 Liquifire) Motorcycle (750 Nighthawk) had nothin' on this thing for that two minutes of fury I got to have on school grounds!
The poor kids these days don't get to enjoy high school like I did!
Thanks to Mr Gwinn, Mr Iverson and Mr Mildebrandt, and all my other teachers who went the extra mile to keep school interesting for me!
Would this mean that if I traded games with a friend for a few months or weeks or whatever, we both would have to also pay the fee to (fully) play each others games?
I thought it was pretty good for a non-English speaker. Much better than many here who have no such excuse!
He's probably good enough that most of the group 3s wouldn't even notice the error, and the rest of us would understand just fine, and excuse the slight (me / I) error considering the source. I'd bet the grammar Nazi's rarely even read technical documentation (:and since Windows is not based on Debian they would never read this particular manual:)
My last comment was as much a compliment to the author on his English ability, as it was a joke based on an obvious technical mismatch (Please help me translate something into English, I (me) don't speak English) that I was amazed I didn't see in the comments already.
For me it was an instant... ***ERROR*** Logical Mismatch Detected!
ON ERROR -> insert_snark
IF Time 1am
wait_woosh =1
GOTO load_page
else
GOTO next_article
EndIF
(:Sorry for the pseudo-Basic, but not the GOTOs;)
AND... I know he's busy with Debian and dpkg so it was not a rip on Raphael for asking for help!!!
Rural Wisconsin does not have intersections with 3-4? lanes of traffic each way. Unless it's 3-4 lanes of cows:)
We are generally pretty nice on the roads, especially in the case of an emergency like a power outage.
Now the round-abouts are gonna beat the nice right outta us through! Granny better grow a set, or she's gonna be stuck there forever! They a installed a two lane round-about in front of every Walgreens in my town! Must be trying to reduce the average age here or something... Always blue hair, and honking horns:) Now a new concealed carry law too! Beep... Beep... Bang!!!
We were sued at my work over an obviously (to any one familiar with the problem and technology) junk patent about something that we were using in a totally different way than it was even patented for.
The same thing is still used by every major automotive and engine controls system company, so we were sued for interfacing something we purchased from GM to something else from Motorola, (but not by either of those two btw!)
They never had the balls to go after the big boys that actually still make what we used, even through we were not even producing the product that way any more by the time of the lawsuit!
They just pick and choose who they wanna mess with based on estimated ROI.
I am lucky enough to live near the EAA airshow that I have gotten to see it over 30 times now, and there are truly some spectacular aircraft from every generation. The things that those machines can do in the hands of a capable pilot, and the mastery of the machine that those pilots have developed is awe inspiring to say the least!
Watching 30 of them take off, fly, and land in formation is just awesome! Only a few feet away from themselves the whole time!
I'm not a shill! Especially for Microsoft!! Notice I even think Microsoft phone 7 or whatever its called is in the same boat as Android and iOS.
Ive used Linux at home exclusively since 2004, and for fun since 1998 and I have converted everyone I hang out with and my family and many co-workers over to Linux as well, and let them all know why Linux and OSS is better than Windows!
I have had 12 different models of WinMo phones over the last 7 years, and felt the pain of a few very buggy nearly unuseable (Motorola I'm looking at you) phones along the way, but WinMo steadily grew in functionality, and near the end (6.5) was actually quite nice feature-wise.
Everything configuration-wise was similar to XP, and while not the easiest to use, It was quite functional. I accessed Lotus Notes mail and calendar for work, and had access to my laptop and network drives from anywhere. Many of our corporate applications written in.net were also easily compiled to run on WinMo, so it was pretty handy.
I'm not a shill, and not a fan of Microsoft, but IMO WinMo made me feel a lot better about the confidentially of my data!
Microsoft had a very good track record of giving me some pretty nice Windows Mobile phones over the last 7 years that gave me the feeling that I had a little computer in my pocket that could do some amazing things. It was built to showcase the evolution of mobile technology. It was the foundation that got the mobile hardware (and interface to the rest of the Microsoft PC world) to the point where others could step in, and have very capable devices, and infrastructure that they could leverage to make some incredible end user experiences. The only problem is they didn't do it for the purpose of giving you a general purpose kick ass pocket computer. It was done because they knew your phone is a window to your soul, and there is BIG money in that! BIG MONEY! Now, with Android I constantly have this creepy feeling (more than a feeling actually) that I'm being watched, and my privacy is being constantly invaded in multiple ways everywhere I go. No matter if I am using the phone or not! It's built as a tool to gather incredible amounts of my personal life for their profits! The technology is the bait.
WinMo 6.5 was getting pretty darn nice. And... It was built for enterprise use, with security and privacy in mind. It could have done anything I ever wanted it to, and I felt relatively safe with my very personal assets piling up in there. But even Microsoft had to make a more personally invasive life tracking OS, and quit making the only mobile OS with your life story, and personal data's security even remotely in mind.
New mobile phone OS's are the core of the targeted advertising life invading future of tomorrow. It's creepy, and it sucks! God I miss my TP2:(
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Bodhi Linux FTW!
Ubuntu LTS base with rolling E17 updates!
It's as fast as any and fancy as you want it. It is also very easy to configure, and they have great documentation!
That is the only time I've ever seen anyone do anything from under a BGA package. Plus the 4th row of a 416 ball BGA device with 1mm pitch. The package was 0.5 mm from the PCB! Installed directly to the PCB with the 4 little wires disappearing underneath! The balls are in a row instead of offset, so the wire didn't have to zig zag in between rows, but with 1mm balls of solder 1 mm apart before it dropped down over 0.5mm during soldering, so there cannot be much room for the wires between the balls!
If anyone here can honestly do that kind of rework, my hats off to you! Please link a picture of your work!
I could do the 0402 and every other type of leaded SMT package without magnification much easier before my laser surgery. I was horribly nearsighted, around a 6 inch max focal length with my naked eyes, but it was like having a built in microscope! I wouldn't trade it back through for the other 99.9 % of the time that I enjoy my 20/10 vision (not to mention being out of the fumes!)
I can still solder them all with only safety glasses on, but I like to double check under magnification as I would rather be absolutely sure of my work. I look them all over a couple times anyways before doing any testing so I know what I'm looking at if they ever come back! Some of the 0.5mm stuff have some pretty beefy pins on them, and its hard to be sure they're not touching because sometimes it looks like they are all touching!
It's fun to teach the co-ops, and the new hires how to do them when they come and ask for help. With the right tools, training, and guidance, its easy to pick up. But the BGA still amazes me!
Cheers!
That is the only time I've ever seen anyone do anything from under a BGA package. That's the 4th row of a 416 ball BGA device with 1mm pitch. The package was 0.5 mm from the PCB! The balls are in a row instead of offset, so the wire didn't have to zig zag in between rows, but the balls are that much closer in that configuration!
If anyone here can honestly do that kind of rework, my hats off to you!
I could do the 0402 without magnification before my laser surgery. I was horribly nearsighted, around a 8 inch max focal length with my naked eyes, but it was like having a built in microscope! I wouldn't trade it back through for the other 99.9 % of the time that I enjoy my 20/10 vision (not to mention being out of the fumes!)
I remember seeing old footage on Discovery or similar channel, and the camera would take long sweeping pictures that had to be synchronized with its movements, be it with a plane or early satellite.
It did not appear to fold up, but it did had a very big lens!
They showed lots of video of the Polaroid spy cameras.
The Kentucky Fried Movie??? Bwaaah! Hello... Surfin USA:)
I've been waiting for the tablet sider with built-in keyboard...
awesome, thanks!
people who can really crunch through numbers amaze me.
Do you have a newsletter?
I got a reworked prototype ECU from Motorola that had 4 really tiny wires coming out from underneath the MPC555 processor. Some of them from the 4th row in on the BGA! There was more stuff rerouted under the chip as well!
Now I'm a pretty darn good solderer, and not too bad at rework, but I really really wanted to shake the guys (super steady) hand that pulled that one off!
Cheers
I hold and type on my laptop all the time the same way, and even though I have a tablet, I still prefer setting my laptop on my lap, and not having to hold anything! Especially in bed, or anywhere lying down!
If its safe enough for Ferdinand to make it across, you'll be fine little Thomas :)
When I was young I had this minibike that I bought at a garage sale, and it was my test bed for modified engines of all types! The only time it ever scared me was with an engine that I had made during my study halls in the metal shop out of a converted GM radial air conditioning compressor from a car. We took one apart in auto shop and I thought "now thats how you build an engine right there!" so I asked my two shop teachers about what they thought of such an animal, and they gave me everything I could ask for to make it happen. I whittled and lathed lots and lots of parts, and my two shop teachers helped too with getting whatever materials I needed to make it run (tore apart lots of small engines they new would contain helpful parts)
I got to run it in the parking lot at school, and it didn't last long, but it was much more powerful than any other engine I could stuff in that frame! Motocross bike (YZ 490), snowmobile (440 Liquifire) Motorcycle (750 Nighthawk) had nothin' on this thing for that two minutes of fury I got to have on school grounds!
The poor kids these days don't get to enjoy high school like I did!
Thanks to Mr Gwinn, Mr Iverson and Mr Mildebrandt, and all my other teachers who went the extra mile to keep school interesting for me!
if you BTFA (Believe The Article) that's what they say too!
if worse comes to worst. the NIST can properly offset it so that when it arrives it is at the correct time!
why wouldn't you have an expert on time help you with the clocks?
example:
www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/tmas.cfm
Would this mean that if I traded games with a friend for a few months or weeks or whatever, we both would have to also pay the fee to (fully) play each others games?
I thought it was pretty good for a non-English speaker. Much better than many here who have no such excuse!
He's probably good enough that most of the group 3s wouldn't even notice the error, and the rest of us would understand just fine, and excuse the slight (me / I) error considering the source. I'd bet the grammar Nazi's rarely even read technical documentation (:and since Windows is not based on Debian they would never read this particular manual:)
My last comment was as much a compliment to the author on his English ability, as it was a joke based on an obvious technical mismatch (Please help me translate something into English, I (me) don't speak English) that I was amazed I didn't see in the comments already.
For me it was an instant...
***ERROR*** Logical Mismatch Detected!
ON ERROR ->
insert_snark
IF Time 1am
wait_woosh =1
GOTO load_page
else
GOTO next_article
EndIF
(:Sorry for the pseudo-Basic, but not the GOTOs;)
AND... I know he's busy with Debian and dpkg so it was not a rip on Raphael for asking for help!!!
Cheers
Rural Wisconsin does not have intersections with 3-4? lanes of traffic each way. Unless it's 3-4 lanes of cows:)
We are generally pretty nice on the roads, especially in the case of an emergency like a power outage.
Now the round-abouts are gonna beat the nice right outta us through! Granny better grow a set, or she's gonna be stuck there forever! They a installed a two lane round-about in front of every Walgreens in my town! Must be trying to reduce the average age here or something... Always blue hair, and honking horns:) Now a new concealed carry law too! Beep... Beep... Bang!!!
Cheers
Seems he has good enough English to write a Slashdot post!
We were sued at my work over an obviously (to any one familiar with the problem and technology) junk patent about something that we were using in a totally different way than it was even patented for.
The same thing is still used by every major automotive and engine controls system company, so we were sued for interfacing something we purchased from GM to something else from Motorola, (but not by either of those two btw!)
They never had the balls to go after the big boys that actually still make what we used, even through we were not even producing the product that way any more by the time of the lawsuit!
They just pick and choose who they wanna mess with based on estimated ROI.
I am lucky enough to live near the EAA airshow that I have gotten to see it over 30 times now, and there are truly some spectacular aircraft from every generation. The things that those machines can do in the hands of a capable pilot, and the mastery of the machine that those pilots have developed is awe inspiring to say the least!
Watching 30 of them take off, fly, and land in formation is just awesome! Only a few feet away from themselves the whole time!
The Dreamliner was a sweet bird BTW!
I would have thought they'd use a lighter material than steel for an airplane?!
Perhaps Microsoft could assist in getting VS to run and install smoothly under WINE?
I want to learn python, so maybe I'll use this as a reason to start. I think the auto-complete functionality in VS would be helpful.
Quick! To the Virtual Machine!
Please ignore the ignorant!
THANK YOU! for contributing to open source software!
I'm not a shill! Especially for Microsoft!! Notice I even think Microsoft phone 7 or whatever its called is in the same boat as Android and iOS.
Ive used Linux at home exclusively since 2004, and for fun since 1998 and I have converted everyone I hang out with and my family and many co-workers over to Linux as well, and let them all know why Linux and OSS is better than Windows!
I have had 12 different models of WinMo phones over the last 7 years, and felt the pain of a few very buggy nearly unuseable (Motorola I'm looking at you) phones along the way, but WinMo steadily grew in functionality, and near the end (6.5) was actually quite nice feature-wise.
Everything configuration-wise was similar to XP, and while not the easiest to use, It was quite functional. I accessed Lotus Notes mail and calendar for work, and had access to my laptop and network drives from anywhere. Many of our corporate applications written in .net were also easily compiled to run on WinMo, so it was pretty handy.
I'm not a shill, and not a fan of Microsoft, but IMO WinMo made me feel a lot better about the confidentially of my data!
Cheers!
Mine is: Please_Share_Your_Personal_Info_With_ME
Wide open WiFi for 2 years, in a 200 unit condo, and Never had anyone log on! (Unless they were so l33t I never knew they were there...)
They thought I was "hacking them all" after that:)
Couldn't wait for one of those fsckers to connect to It!
Cheers!
Microsoft had a very good track record of giving me some pretty nice Windows Mobile phones over the last 7 years that gave me the feeling that I had a little computer in my pocket that could do some amazing things. It was built to showcase the evolution of mobile technology. It was the foundation that got the mobile hardware (and interface to the rest of the Microsoft PC world) to the point where others could step in, and have very capable devices, and infrastructure that they could leverage to make some incredible end user experiences. The only problem is they didn't do it for the purpose of giving you a general purpose kick ass pocket computer. It was done because they knew your phone is a window to your soul, and there is BIG money in that! BIG MONEY! Now, with Android I constantly have this creepy feeling (more than a feeling actually) that I'm being watched, and my privacy is being constantly invaded in multiple ways everywhere I go. No matter if I am using the phone or not! It's built as a tool to gather incredible amounts of my personal life for their profits! The technology is the bait.
WinMo 6.5 was getting pretty darn nice. And... It was built for enterprise use, with security and privacy in mind. It could have done anything I ever wanted it to, and I felt relatively safe with my very personal assets piling up in there. But even Microsoft had to make a more personally invasive life tracking OS, and quit making the only mobile OS with your life story, and personal data's security even remotely in mind.
New mobile phone OS's are the core of the targeted advertising life invading future of tomorrow. It's creepy, and it sucks!
God I miss my TP2:(