same thing!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
On May 17, 2006, at 7:09 PM, Marc Price wrote:
some photos here do the place justice
http://www.swansea-gower.co.uk/
Wow, it is *gorgeous* there..
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
;t pay for much tinkering
at my rates, and my customers prefer it done right anyway.
Of course. My solution is to always have stuff like that on-hand
anyway. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
think I will try to make these. One question
though...What is a "sultana"?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
ld. (at least not yet...if my
government keeps up its current shenanigans, I might just join you over
there!)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
zza on the
way!"
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
On May 17, 2006, at 5:43 PM, John Doty wrote:
Ok no problem i can get some but for now
i dont have one so is there any way to
drop the voltage
That's what overnight shipping is for!
$20 shipping for a $0.98 LM317, wheee! 8-)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
istor values to give you the right
thing.
Or just go grab an LM317. ;) Even Radio Shack will probably still
have those. Don't know where Marc is based though.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
ctly.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
y tedious. This, of course, isn't gschem's
fault per se, in this world of a gazillion manufacturers each making a
gazillion different components..
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
ite a
while...ever try to get gnumeric built on anything other than Linux on
a PeeCee?), then DJ released djboxsym and I was generating symbols
literally in minutes. I believe it is the single largest usability
enhancement to come along for gschem in a very long time.
-Dave
--
On May 16, 2006, at 9:44 PM, David Carr wrote:
Today I used tragesym to create symbols with a total of 692 pins and
it only took about three hours!
Way to go guys...
Yeah? Just wait 'til you try DJ's "djboxsym" script. :-)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
.
They do sell them in cut tape in single-unit quantities, but a roll of
1000 of them typically costs about four dollars. I personally don't
consider this to be particularly expensive.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
Specifically I would want to use it for cleaning & degreasing boards
before assembly. I use Alconox for many other non-electronic things,
so I have a carton here.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
washing boards with something like Alconox
(a trisodium phosphate-based cleaner)?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
;t seem to be a "standard"
form-factor for small relays. :-( When faced with this problem, I've
broken out the calipers and built a footprint. It is a bit tedious,
but not really very time consuming.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
On Apr 18, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Phil Taylor wrote:
The wire wrap wire will hold its shape well. And with a good
stripper, is
very quick to work with.
Yes but isn't that true for everything? ;)
(sorry, I couldn't resist!)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
-)
http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/dj_delorie/tools/djboxsym.html
Very nice! Thanks!
I also uploaded the CP2200/CP2201 symbols I made with it.
Ahh, you too, eh? I downloaded the datasheets for that chip last
week. =)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
Ahh, most excellent. Man I *want* one of those boards!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
or me.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
On Mar 16, 2006, at 10:59 AM, Levente wrote:
How long do you estimate it will take me to reinstall my current gEDA
to the new one?
It takes about 20 minutes on a very slow machine. While the installer
runs, you can read more documentation! :-)
soda -> monitor
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Co
y standard lead-bearing solder?
Thanks,
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
board.
soda -> monitor
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
/3 MILE square board on my screen.
Yeah, 0.33 miles at 0.01 mil resolution.
Umm. That's an awfully big board.
I'd hate to see the card cage!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
On Feb 25, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
I wouldn't call HTML email very simple. It certainly requires more
work
for me to read.
Same here. Not to mention a lot more bytes to convey the same
information.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
On Feb 25, 2006, at 5:48 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
m4 or newlib should be, in my opinion, completely hidden from the
user.
We're trying to get rid of m4 anyway.
Yes, true. There's a lot of functionality there, though. How to
replace it?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
a PC sales publication) and is fantastic.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
there's NO OTHER WAY to get the same functionality.
Witness all the poor saps who insist that they "NEED" Microsoft
Office in order to be a productive employee.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
t be visible to the user at
all.
Just my US$0.02.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
but Nintendo, "bling
bling", and "reality TV"...and grow up caring about nothing but Bud
Light and NASCAR. Seeing someone approaching something like this with
such enthusiasm is very refreshing and gives me hope for the future.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
a foothold
in a given company, it's already doomed, so who cares?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
xclusively. It's
not gschem's responsibility to make that decision.
Schematics are a logical representation of a circuit's ELECTRICAL
topology...not its implementation in the physical world. There's a big
abstraction layer there.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
m waiting for one of them to create Microsoft Visual Circuits ;-)
*BARF!!*
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
ey everyone look how
clever I am" stunts. It's irritating as all hell for us adults.
By the way...PLEASE don't send HTML email.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
On Feb 24, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Marc Price wrote:
This wiki is a nightmare >:o
Most wikis are nightmares.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
ve is to use
an XC9536 where a GAL16V8 will do)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
Hi folks. Can anyone tell me if I can use Icarus Verilog to generate
the files required to program PAL/GAL chips like the 16V8 and 22V10?
Thanks,
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
On Feb 15, 2006, at 7:11 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
DE-9
E?
The second letter is the shell size. Here's what they really are, as
opposed to common usage:
DD-50
DC-37
DB-25
DA-15
DE-9
DEH-15 (high-density, "VGA connector")
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
On Feb 15, 2006, at 7:07 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
what's a 9 way 'd'?
DB-9 connector.
DE-9
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
DJ's house I'll find myself inside of the furnace
controller?
rum & coke -> monitor
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
rmetek has made encapsulated modem
modules for years but I've not seen either of them for quite a while.
The one that jumps out at me right now is the modem line from Zilog.
More info can be found here:
http://www.zilog.com/products/family.asp?fam=206
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Larry Doolittle wrote:
Dave -
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:14:29AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
According to a chemist friend, there is Pb in the solder fumes...but
frankly, I'm 36 and have been soldering regularly since I was 7...if
there was THAT much Pb in
is Pb in the solder fumes...but
frankly, I'm 36 and have been soldering regularly since I was 7...if
there was THAT much Pb in there I'd probably be dead by now.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
n. Which he went on to
further define as "approximetly 400."
soda -> monitor
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
simulator? If it's for simulation, how
ideal is ideal?
Wow Dan, you're hard to please. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
s to 750 I think), and has a
migration path. The ARM part max's out at 200MHz, but has some useful
peripherals.
Is it *faster*, or does it just have a higher clock frequency?
(sorry, pet peeve of mine...but it is a valid question)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
but it's still in regular production without
any signs of stopping soon.
It's interesting how the word "legacy" keeps getting redefined. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
On Jan 18, 2006, at 6:02 AM, Bob Paddock wrote:
Newer parts like the AVR, dsPIC etc. are all much easier to program
that
the legacy PICs, especially in assembly language.
"Legacy" PICs? Is Microchip phasing out the PIC family?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
olk to be "slow old
dinosaurs", have kept up the pace...and modern ones are so unbelievably
powerful it's just not even funny.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
ack as two years ago. It has been ready for prime time for quite
awhile now.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
. Details?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
Motif went open, too.
(Answerres like: Everybody uses Gtk today do not count)
Thank you, you saved me the trouble of typing up something like that!
=)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
stupid "one processor must do EVERYTHING in the box" mentality of PC
systems-level architecture.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
zens of them in production, my
friend. There's more to computer performance than processor clock
speed.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'"-Ted McFadden
over pretty
much everything else in an average data center, yet an E450...a
quad-processor machine with twenty drive bays...large enough that I can
just barely lift it...ran completely unnoticed in my dining room (!)
for weeks.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll h
on of PCB. It'd just be even
better without the bloat.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'"-Ted McFadden
27;re much
better off running Solaris.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'"-Ted McFadden
like an Ultra2 for a few tens of dollars these days, it'll
eat PCs for lunch in most applications, and you won't have hardware
problems.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'"-Ted McFadden
that level
(which almost no one does anymore, or so it seems) you will be able to
come up with your own neat ideas of what to use that power for. Then,
and only then, will you earn your very own Geek Wizard hat. :-)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire "I wonder what 'Error
done something very similar with
X itself between four VAXes in 1988 under UNIX, and with other software
under VMS ~5 years before that.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'"-Ted McFadden
re "normal" applications like
this...NFS was designed for applications like this, and it handles them
rather well. I'd be highly surprised if there were any difficulties in
doing stuff like this, as this is exactly what NFS was designed to do.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
this strike anyone else as a big abstraction
violation?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'"-Ted McFadden
ty issues, and just
good old-fashioned manners.
Further, it's been suggested that the amount of HTML moving around on
TCP port 25 is becoming a two-digit-percentage of the amount of HTML on
port 80...that's just *wrong*.
Thanks, Microsoft.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
ders to
Sprague, who had a plant in eastern Nebraska at the time. 55 gallons
of it will make a heck of a lot of electrolytic caps as it only takes
a
few drops to soak the paper sufficiently.
-Dan
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'
disappeared. Well not exactly. It took me an hour to
vacuum the mess out of the inside of the printer.
It's amusing when big paper electrolytics blow. I've seen one blow a
long streamer straight up in the air like a "party popper". And yes
that stuff sure does stink!
somewhere that capacitor electrolyte,
especially the stuff found in wet paper electrolytics, is quite nasty.
Whenever we were cooking them off, I'd always keep a hand over my
drink. =)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'
into a 25v electrolytic. Poof! Out goes the magic smoke.
I have a hazy memory involving a large DC power supply and a box of
electrolytics...and vodka. That was quite the geeky party.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
&#
esult. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'"-Ted McFadden
don't mess
with high voltage. Just keep in mind that it can be quite lethal.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'"-Ted McFadden
Good lord, man. High voltage and capacitors are a very dangerous
combination. Please be careful.
But that does sound like fun. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'"-Ted McFadden
oards from a Cray-1 supercomputer here; they are
chock full of such wiggles. The processor modules in the Cray J90
machines also have those wiggles. If I can find the motivation (or the
caffeine) I may take a few pics of them.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire "I wonder wha
o the school that
someone is ramming Windows down my throat) is get and build ngspice,
install WINE, and get WinSpice running under WINE. Try to do your
class stuff in a nice native ngspice installation first, and if you
have trouble, you can always fall back to WinSpice under WINE.
Steve Meier wrote:
How do you make a 40 mil via into a 43 mil one?
With emacs. ;)
No, vi! VI! VI VI VI!! ARRRARRGGGH!! *BOOM* (<-- head explodes)
-Dave, emacs user
Bob Paddock wrote:
A refresher for anyone new to the list. I want to use PCB at work. The
only way that is going to happen
is that if there is a version of PCB that is a native windows application,
native in all respects including 'help'.
The IT guy at work has told me "Linux is a toy", they
Steve Meier wrote:
DJ Delorie wrote:
I went to a school further north then you did.
Random participation: Clarkson University.
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Whoa...you win. ;)
-Dave
Steve Meier wrote:
Ok, I have to make my bet
I went to a school further north then you did.
If you think you have me beat or tied, name the school. If you think you
should get points for naming the collage I graduated from. Name It. If
you think you know the era I was there then state it a
So I've heard. ;) [dave ducks]
-Dave
Steve Meier wrote:
Where as psycopath is not far from the truth for me ;
S.M.
Dave McGuire wrote:
Steve Meier wrote:
Yes Yes Yes, My kids tell me the music I listen too is cave man rock...
and I agree... well it is from the ston
Steve Meier wrote:
Yes Yes Yes, My kids tell me the music I listen too is cave man rock...
and I agree... well it is from the stone age.
Cave man rock...I love it! Ahh the differences between generations.
If I weren't so hung up on technology, I'd definitely be a psychologist
or a soci
DJ Delorie wrote:
Oh ok...didn't mean to suggest that your facilities were
inadequate; I just wanted to offer. :-)
I understood the intent :-)
Ok. I'm about 3/4 drunk at the moment (rum & cokes) so I was
concerned that I wasn't clear. :)
If I need to test anything before shari
DJ Delorie wrote:
I like what I've heard so far about your HID project. I offer you
an account on my primary development machine (Sun E3500, six
processors, 6GB of RAM, Solaris9, beefy) for testing under Solaris
if you want...I have Sun C and Purify installed. Otherwise I'm
happy to test on t
DJ Delorie wrote:
I started with the xaw PCB, and that's what I run now. But is there
a plan, on the part of dev's or users, to pursue either the xaw or
gtk version over the other?
The Xaw version is not being maintained, except perhaps for serious
yet easy to fix bugs.
The current offi
nk I turned out ok.
Not defending the behavior, mind you..
It is damn hard to be an anarchist and a parent.
Now THAT'S a sig quote if I've ever heard one.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape
ol
based on passing structs back and forth using the shared memory
segment, and use semaphores for the processes to synchronize and notify
each other.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'"-Ted McFadden
ake the bad man stop!" ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire "I wonder what 'Error Code 1' means. That's
Cape Coral, FLwhat it said when it started smoking."
-Jonathan Patschke
soda -> monitor
-Dave
On Nov 29, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Steve Meier wrote:
Digital underground is a circuit which uses only negative power
supplies
such as one based upon ecl.
Steve Meier
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Nov 28, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Phil Taylor wrote:
Maybe it's a d
On Nov 28, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Phil Taylor wrote:
Maybe it's a drag that this 'fork' that's up for discussion is using
the same
name. The last thing the digital underground needs is more confusing
versioning.
Umm, sorry, but..."Digital underground"??
On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Stuart Brorson wrote:
Oh, OK. Fair enough. I never assume anybody is using Windoze anyway.
. . :-)
Behold, the incredible shrinking market share. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
7;s a rant for another day. =)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, Cape Coral, FL
"Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because
the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous
employment for man's nobler faculties." - Henry David Thoreau
s very little distinction.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, Cape Coral, FL
"Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because
the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous
employment for man's nobler faculties." - Henry David Thoreau
;.
Sheesh.
;-)
*snicker*
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'"-Ted McFadden
oject aren't super tight, but they aren't unlimited, and
neither
of us has perfect confidence in the paper budget and schedule. Took
them
about a millisecond to come to the correct decision ;-)
Bravo. :-)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot
s.org/video/PinCushion_Goes_To_Lake_Wales.wmv
The video cameras were purchased at cvs pharmacy for $29.00 each and
then hacked.
This is mind-bogglingly cool! I am totally blown away by this. Your
brother rocks!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot mor
version pretty much daily (Solaris9 on UltraSPARC) with
very good results. I have to admit, though, that I don't use many key
shortcuts.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl l
On Nov 10, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Marc wrote:
Hope it gets fixed im fed up of seeing it masked under AMD64
I compiled and installed it just fine on an AMD64.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL
y, so I could buy a commercial programm anyway...
Hmm. Time does indeed equal money, which is why I refuse to use
commercial software when something else is available. If I have the
source code, I can fix a bug at 3AM on a Saturday.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You
n of spending a bunch of money on expensive
commercial tools?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'"-Ted McFadden
On Nov 10, 2005, at 9:38 AM, Lucas Vogelsang wrote:
Sometimes it isn't harsh, it is only lack of time to be polite...
But that's time well spent.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL
the grace period is long since over,
but I plan to re-up soon, probably go for a General class...I want to
help with emergency comms during hurricanes and such.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL
don't have
to feel alone. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire"You'll have to be a lot more specific than
'that
Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'"-Ted McFadden
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