Despite the fact that you are an obvious troll, your point, lame as it is, demands a response:
Why would you want to solder a BGA when you can do so much with an AVR in a DIP package?
I think it is that there is too much brain dead easy entertainment. My kids, given the chance, will ask to watch Netflix, fiddle with their computers (and I mean play online games, not even read Wikipedia or look for interesting stuff on YouTube). Then there is TV with 58 channels and 1% good content (which they will usually not find with odd exceptions).
And modern electronics is perceived to be "hard" (well, it is, kind of) so "therefore anything simple enough to be do-able, must be boring".
And yet, when I force them to do something like wire up a "2 way lighting circuit" with batteries and an LED, they actually find it interesting. But they are not bored enough by default to seek to do these things for themselves. That I think is the crux of the problem.
Me too. In the UK, HeathKit were pretty big. I remember their Freezer Door Alarm (simple but effective), but the best was their plasma Alarm Clock. Beautiful display (better than LED and LCD), nice and loud, reliable and direct mains driven (no crappy wall wart). Being frequency locked to the mains also meant no long term drift - I even remember the 50/60 Hz jumper setting that was carefully explained in the excellent manual. No shop bought alarm has measured up since - even the 60kHz radio time signal ones mostly have crappy LCD displays with poor backlighting.
Doesn't anyone make decent alarm clocks anymore?
In the UK, I use PhotoBox.co.uk.
In 2003 (so may have changed) I took pictures of lots of Dulux paint colour charts (the choose'n'mix millions of colour types).
I used a cloudy day for even light and set the camera white balance against a grey card for accuracy.
I then sent the prints to a variety of printing services from High St to online.
Net result - PhotoBox produced prints that were pretty accurate. Other places either saturated the colours to death or had strong colour casts.
But long story short, a decent print shop will be easier and better (usually) than trying to print at home. And the prints will probably last longer.
The 3 MIFI dongle will allow a DMZ host - ie forward all ports to an internal machine of your choice. The IP is of course, dynamic, but works well enough with dyndns.
Debian's debirf tool allows fairly painless building of custom bootable ISOs which boot to ramdisk. The ISOs can usually be run through isohybrid for pendrive booting, depending on the hardware and how fussy it is.
Depends... It is possible to get intra-grid oscillation where a phase shift (a phase angle between various points of a large grid is natural and inevitable) starts to destabilise and if the oscillations are not damped by modifying power input in the right places, then things can get bad pretty quick.
This is in the UK which is tiny in comparison to the US.
Question - is the US national grid one big AC system or a number of smaller networks with DC interconnects[1]
[1] DC interconnects are the classic solution to allowing power transfer between grids without requiring syncronisation - eg the GB has DC interconnectors with Ireland, France and the Netherlands. See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Interconnector
Seriously...
If you dispense with use strict/use warnings it handles pretty much like basic with a hint of structure. I was asking exactly the same question the other week with regard to what to start my daughter (aged 7) off on. I went through some mental deliberations and settled on perl.
She's taken to it as well as I did Sinclair BASIC at a much older age, She can't write anything from scratch (that would be expecting a LOT of such an age group) but she is happy to type in a short dictated program. She chooses the subject (times tables, Fibbonnaci etc) and I work out a strategy for building the program up a few lines at a time, with it being runnable as often as possible.
She's demonstrated that she can modify it for basic parameters, eg which "times table", "max size of Fibbonnaci number).
The best one we've done to date is one that picks 2 random numbers and asks a question like "What is X times Y?" It prompts for an answer and checks it with a friendly "yea" or "bad luck" message.
It's not pretty, it's not trendy, it's not GUI but in my humble opinion, she is learning what computers can *really* do.
No, it's a Network File System (hint, the initials). NFS supports filesystem primitive operations - see:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1094
Networked block devices are possible, but NFS isn't one of them.
However, some of the points are still valid - unix doesn't particularly like it when mounted filesystems go away unexpectedly.
they run a separate ground wire for code only. They want you to have twice the wire gauge for the return path in case there is a major problem or a cross short. the safety issue of having the ground and neutral wired together are minimal.. unless the neutral is wired wrong... check it first.
And what happens when your neutral falls of further up the line?
I suspect this is in your code for a very good reason!
Nonsense. xfs_repair runs over half a dozen checks on metadata. I've done it and watched it and it is thorough.
The only problem is running it on 32 bit architectures with a 13TB filesystem, when it runs out of memory address space at around phase 7. That's curable with an Operton.
The only problem here is you're increasing the unsprung weight, which automobile designers try their
utmost to reduce.
One could go 1/2 way and chassis mount the motors and use CV joints+driveshafts, but that's introducing losses again.
Gentoo's strength is its package management, and that's one thing that really doesn't matter on an embeded device.
I'd have to respectfully disagree with you there.
www.openwrt.org for the Linlsys router/WIFI unit makes a big thing out of being little
but allowing you to install one of several dozen packages to customise the unit the way you want. All on a 200MHz MIPS
CPU:->
I would like to try some alternative real life scenarios for fun:
Your water tank's ballcock died, spewing water down into my flat.
I'd be outside turning your water off at the main cock if it were possible (and even in the case of flats, is sometimes possible in the UK). Failing that, I'd turn the main cock off for the building then talk to the other neighbours as we try to find you.
You'd probably even thank me for it.
That's not perfect though - perhaps a better analogy would be I broke in and fixed your washer or turned your supply off locally. Now that's illegal (well, in the UK, the breaking and entering part is) - so more correctly I should call the police to do it for me. Mind you, they're a bit useless these days (like ISPs?)
So perhaps on that basis, it would be better to locate infected machines, go round to the victim's house and cut their phone line?
Now I'm not serious on the last one - but it is an interesting idea, no?
Of course, if the above water scenario were happening and you'd left your door unlocked I'd be in like a shot turning stuff off. In the UK, I'm pretty sure that's not illegal - though it's hard to tell these days with the madness of Blair and his mate David 'Hitler' Blunkett abounding. - "More CCTV, Vicar?"
Rambling on - one might argue that the nearer equivalent is I picked your lock (exploited a weakness) to get in and turn off the water. I'm not sure if that counts as "breaking and entering" (no damage caused by the act of entering). Also, UK trespass laws are weak (non existant in Scotland) so I'm still fairly confident I'm not going to gaol.
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Despite the fact that you are an obvious troll, your point, lame as it is, demands a response: Why would you want to solder a BGA when you can do so much with an AVR in a DIP package?
I think it is that there is too much brain dead easy entertainment. My kids, given the chance, will ask to watch Netflix, fiddle with their computers (and I mean play online games, not even read Wikipedia or look for interesting stuff on YouTube). Then there is TV with 58 channels and 1% good content (which they will usually not find with odd exceptions). And modern electronics is perceived to be "hard" (well, it is, kind of) so "therefore anything simple enough to be do-able, must be boring". And yet, when I force them to do something like wire up a "2 way lighting circuit" with batteries and an LED, they actually find it interesting. But they are not bored enough by default to seek to do these things for themselves. That I think is the crux of the problem.
Me too. In the UK, HeathKit were pretty big. I remember their Freezer Door Alarm (simple but effective), but the best was their plasma Alarm Clock. Beautiful display (better than LED and LCD), nice and loud, reliable and direct mains driven (no crappy wall wart). Being frequency locked to the mains also meant no long term drift - I even remember the 50/60 Hz jumper setting that was carefully explained in the excellent manual. No shop bought alarm has measured up since - even the 60kHz radio time signal ones mostly have crappy LCD displays with poor backlighting. Doesn't anyone make decent alarm clocks anymore?
In the UK, I use PhotoBox.co.uk. In 2003 (so may have changed) I took pictures of lots of Dulux paint colour charts (the choose'n'mix millions of colour types). I used a cloudy day for even light and set the camera white balance against a grey card for accuracy. I then sent the prints to a variety of printing services from High St to online. Net result - PhotoBox produced prints that were pretty accurate. Other places either saturated the colours to death or had strong colour casts. But long story short, a decent print shop will be easier and better (usually) than trying to print at home. And the prints will probably last longer.
The 3 MIFI dongle will allow a DMZ host - ie forward all ports to an internal machine of your choice. The IP is of course, dynamic, but works well enough with dyndns.
Debian's debirf tool allows fairly painless building of custom bootable ISOs which boot to ramdisk. The ISOs can usually be run through isohybrid for pendrive booting, depending on the hardware and how fussy it is.
From 4.x you can run Windows as a guest VM, and deploy VCenter on this. Then do an RDP desktop share to your MAC.
or is it April 1st?...
Someone is going to find they have a new job soon. Farming rabbit droppings in Mongolia...
Depends... It is possible to get intra-grid oscillation where a phase shift (a phase angle between various points of a large grid is natural and inevitable) starts to destabilise and if the oscillations are not damped by modifying power input in the right places, then things can get bad pretty quick. This is in the UK which is tiny in comparison to the US. Question - is the US national grid one big AC system or a number of smaller networks with DC interconnects[1] [1] DC interconnects are the classic solution to allowing power transfer between grids without requiring syncronisation - eg the GB has DC interconnectors with Ireland, France and the Netherlands. See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Interconnector
Seriously... If you dispense with use strict/use warnings it handles pretty much like basic with a hint of structure. I was asking exactly the same question the other week with regard to what to start my daughter (aged 7) off on. I went through some mental deliberations and settled on perl. She's taken to it as well as I did Sinclair BASIC at a much older age, She can't write anything from scratch (that would be expecting a LOT of such an age group) but she is happy to type in a short dictated program. She chooses the subject (times tables, Fibbonnaci etc) and I work out a strategy for building the program up a few lines at a time, with it being runnable as often as possible. She's demonstrated that she can modify it for basic parameters, eg which "times table", "max size of Fibbonnaci number). The best one we've done to date is one that picks 2 random numbers and asks a question like "What is X times Y?" It prompts for an answer and checks it with a friendly "yea" or "bad luck" message. It's not pretty, it's not trendy, it's not GUI but in my humble opinion, she is learning what computers can *really* do.
Plenty of UK companies use .com too, despite .co.uk being well established for a long time.
I own a small software company that happens to have the same name as a larger, established trucking company.
Your software company is called Eddie Stobart?
FSLint is very good. http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/
NFS is 1) a block device
No, it's a Network File System (hint, the initials). NFS supports filesystem primitive operations - see: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1094 Networked block devices are possible, but NFS isn't one of them. However, some of the points are still valid - unix doesn't particularly like it when mounted filesystems go away unexpectedly.
And what happens when your neutral falls of further up the line? I suspect this is in your code for a very good reason!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opf5jIukSBM
If the sparks don't do it, then just play some Barry Manilow...
Nonsense. xfs_repair runs over half a dozen checks on metadata. I've done it and watched it and it is thorough. The only problem is running it on 32 bit architectures with a 13TB filesystem, when it runs out of memory address space at around phase 7. That's curable with an Operton.
Really. What are xfs_check and xfs_repair for then?
www.openwrt.org for the Linlsys router/WIFI unit makes a big thing out of being little but allowing you to install one of several dozen packages to customise the unit the way you want. All on a 200MHz MIPS CPU :->
£1800 - What the hell are you driving - a Rolls Royce?
OK - but your light left on isn't pissing me off.
I would like to try some alternative real life scenarios for fun:
Your water tank's ballcock died, spewing water down into my flat.
I'd be outside turning your water off at the main cock if it were possible
(and even in the case of flats, is sometimes possible in the UK). Failing that, I'd turn the main
cock off for the building then talk to the other neighbours as we try to find you.
You'd probably even thank me for it.
That's not perfect though - perhaps a better analogy would be I broke in
and fixed your washer or turned your supply off locally.
Now that's illegal (well, in the UK, the breaking and entering part is) - so more correctly
I should call the police to do it for me. Mind you, they're a bit useless these days (like ISPs?)
So perhaps on that basis, it would be better to locate infected machines, go round to the
victim's house and cut their phone line?
Now I'm not serious on the last one - but it is an interesting idea, no?
Of course, if the above water scenario were happening and you'd left your door unlocked
I'd be in like a shot turning stuff off. In the UK, I'm pretty sure that's not illegal - though it's hard
to tell these days with the madness of Blair and his mate David 'Hitler' Blunkett abounding.
- "More CCTV, Vicar?"
Rambling on - one might argue that the nearer equivalent is I picked your lock (exploited a weakness)
to get in and turn off the water. I'm not sure if that counts as "breaking and entering"
(no damage caused by the act of entering). Also, UK trespass laws are weak (non existant in Scotland)
so I'm still fairly confident I'm not going to gaol.
Hmm.
Are you Welsh?