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Reality LUT

Rob — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:10:21 +0000

Slug Infestation

Rob — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:06:42 +0000

Slugs arrived this morning…

CNC Videos

Rob — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:11:20 +0000

CNC!

Scraping John’s Site…

Rob — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:48:15 +0000

Have just spent an hour or so setting up an RSS feed for John’s New Zealand adventures. Should update every half an hour.

Source used to generate it available here :-)

Edit: Something’s gone wrong with the ECS servers… I guess it’ll be back up soon…

Edit: Seems to be back up now.

Changelog Drama

Rob — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:40:26 +0000

Some selected lines from the changelog of the U-Boot JFFS2 reading software:

/* Ok, so anyone who knows the jffs2 code will probably want to get a papar [sic]
 * bag to throw up into before reading this code.

....

 * Please, he really means it when he said have a paper bag
 * handy. We needed it ;).
....

 * - overhaul of the memory management. Removed much of the "paper-bagging"

Maxim are unbelievable!

Rob — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:23:23 +0000

The engineers at Maxim must be completely and utterly unhinged. The MAX9911 (datasheet) is absolutely nuts. It’s got a “low” shutdown current of 1nA. 1nA! Yarrrrgh! I want to know what they regard as “very low”…

Caps

Rob — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:12:39 +0000

Jeff, Steve and I were just considering using capacitors for powering things instead of button cell size batteries. We thought about moving the plates apart as the capacitor discharged so that the voltage increases. Then I thought why not use a squidgy dilectric so that the width between the plates increases as the charge decreases as a result of the force between the charges on the plates. Of course this all relies on finding some sort of suitable dilectric.

I’m writing it here so that Steve can’t patent it :-P

Management

Rob — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:57:29 +0000

Arrrrrrr. Management sucks.

Memory diffing.

Rob — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:33:51 +0000

Hmmm. Two identical situations, and no idea about why one’s different to the other… I know, I’ll take a dump of SFRs in both and then diff the result…

Bees.

Rob — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:07:32 +0000

How on earth does this RewriteRule:

RewriteRule ^tg_widgets/turbogears/js/(.*)$ js/$1 [L]

Cause a request to /tg_widgets/turbogears/js/MochiKit.js map to /beesjs!?:

File does not exist: /home/rob/public_html/beesjs

Update:It all makes sense now. There was another .htaccess file further up the tree…