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Mike Hankey wrote: They want their privacy?...so do we!
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Hi Mike, Do you use the Atmel AVR chips? If so, what programmer do you use? 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard,
Until recently I used AVR chips exclusively and if you know how to solder you can get
the USBTiny[^] kit from Adafruit. I got one a few years ago and it has been my programmer when all else failed.
I had an AVR Dragon that I really liked and it was very versatile but every time they upgrade their IDE you have to upgrade the tools and this one refused to upgrade, so it's bricked.
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Thanks! The Dragon looks really cool. Years ago I had used the DIY parallel port programmer, but no computer has a parallel port anymore!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The thing about the dragon is that it's a cheap In_Circuit Debugger it can also be used to unbrick chips and more. For only $50 it's a good tool to have.
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I'll check it out thanks for the link!
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With respect to An autonomous roving vehicle - Part 1 of n[^], it's Robot B-9. The robot on Lost In Space was called Robot B-9, or just Robot. Robbie the robot was from Forbidden Planet and never uttered the phrase "Danger Will Robinson". I know it probably sounds like a small thing to you, but details are important. You kids today...
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Yeah that's been pointed out to me on a couple of occasions. The problem is that I'm so old that all the facts blend together into an indecipherable mess in my head.
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There once was a guy from Thailand,
Whose poetry got out of hand,
The rhyming was fine,
Every time!
But unfortunately very few of his poems scanned
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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LOL, I don't know how many chuckles you got with that one, but I laughed hard!
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StatementTerminator wrote: I don't know how many chuckles you got with that one
Well, only one up-vote, so very few, I'm guessing 
StatementTerminator wrote: I laughed hard!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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BillWoodruff wrote: Snowden: Used a Can-Opener, not a Laser-Beam
BillWoodruff wrote: <layer>Little Lord Snowden
Sat down in NSA's garden,
Downloading files night and day;
With just a little Crawler
To power his data trawler,
He hauled all the secrets away
Don't quit your day job. 
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I particularly like their response :- "If he'd done this anywhere else he would have probably been caught."
Two thoughts:
1. A chain is as strong as its weakest link - particularly in security systems.
2. If it was that easy, imagine what industrial-strength espionage is pulling out of those systems.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You live on an island.
You have a rabbit problem.
You are a farmer.
You have a boat that holds one item.
Your task is to take a fox, a hen, and seed to the island.
If you leave the fox with the hen it will eat the hen.
If you leave the hen with the seed it will eat the seed.
How do you get all three across to the island, when remember you can only carry one item at a time on your boat.
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My dad told me this one. lets see if I can remember.
You take the hen across and leave it at the island.
Go back and get the fox, take him to the island and pick up the hen.
Take the hen to where the seed is but leave the hen and take the seed to the island, leaving it with the fox. Then go get the hen and take it to the island where the fox and the seed be.
Y'all live happily ever after.
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Ah, logistics!
The real life equivalent would be to get the new application, the new database and the customer into the server room one at a time without leaving the customer alone with anything he would try to 'improve'.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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First, shoot the customer, then...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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CDP1802 wrote: without leaving the customer alone with anything he would try to 'improve'.
Years ago I worked in a business where the server room was a cupboard - we would leave it open at times when we had to perform maintenance.
One of these 'times' we had a power cut and fortunately the UPS kept the computer(yes we only had one) going while at the same time beeping, telling us that we had limited time to shut down.
One of the accounts ladies was passing by and decided to switch off the UPS - her reason when asked - 'The box was letting out a loud beeping noise as though it was in distress so I turned it off to ease its distress'...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Yes, put the poor thing out of its misery.
And tomorrow I will again work on a project where the customer requested a change that would require to completely replace the primary keys of most tables in order to be able to arrange all major objects (and future expansions) in a tree structure as he sees fit. But please without changing anything in the table definitions, so that the stored procedures he has written to manipulate the database (!!!) still work.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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Move away from SQL, just stop using databases.
Move into class libraries with properties that serialize the data.
Much faster
Then you can have the properties bring in data from the old database seamlessly without having to rewrite the primary key system.
You can also inject the value backwards into the database for the clients scripts, and as well get them to upgrade to the new system by using windows 8 xaml apps.
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That's exactly what we are doing, but unfortunately the customer has never heard of something like application logic and insists on messing around in the database with his stored procedures. The old composite primary keys are not adequate to represent the new tree structure, so we have little choice than to make those changes in the database and keep the changes to his SPs as small as possible.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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