As I was writing the previous entry I got the nagging feeling that something wasn't quite right with the code. I got distracted yesterday helping a friend bounce programming issues off me, but after that, I was able to take a good look at the code and figured out what I did wrong.

Well, not “wrong” per se, the code as it worked-it's just that it ( Read more... )

Bunny and I went out for dinner and at the restaurant there were TVs tuned to a sports channel. It was rather surprising to me to see that it was ESPN 8-the Ocho! And here I thought it was just a fake TV channel from the movie “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.” It's odd to think that a Cornhole tournament beat out baseball and the Tour de France!

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When I wrote the two programs to retrieve output from syslog from my public server, the thing I did not do use was any AI program (aka Cat) to help with the design nor the code. It was a simple problem with a straightforward solution and it's sad to think that more and more programmers are reaching for Cat for even simple programs.

I wonder though- ( Read more... )

Last month, I added code to my assembler to output BASIC code instead of binary to make it easier to use assembly subroutines from BASIC. But I've been working on a rather large program that assembles to nearly 2K of object code, and it takes a bit of time to POKE all that data into memory.

So I took a bit of time (maybe an hour total) to add a ( Read more... )

“You know, you could turn on a light instead of using your phone as a flash light.”

“No, Then I would have to get up to turn on a light.”

“I could turn one on for you.”

“No, then I would just have to get up to turn it off.”

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If you count the BASIC that came with every 80s home computer an “IDE,” then my first encounter with IDEs came in 1983. If you don't, then my first encounter with an IDE came a year later when I got EDTASM+, a 6809 assembler that was a cross between ed and DEBUG with an assembler stuck inside. I can't say it was a pleasant experience, but if I ( Read more... )

Another day, another YouTube channel gets demonitized. While it matters to the channel owner that the channel was demonitized, for this post, it doesn't matter which channel, because it probably happens many times per month. Maybe per day, given the sheer size of YouTube these days. And in every case you do hear about, the owner is going around in ( Read more... )

So I check my Gmail account and guess what? No only is there yet another Sean Conner out there, but he lost the password to his account. How do I know this? Because my account was set as his backup account!

Seriously!
This is a copy of a security alert sent to connersean50@gmail.com. Seanconner@gmail.com is the recovery email for this account. If ( Read more... )

I'm still using my ISP, despite the repeated letters that my service will go away at some point. But in the meantime, they keep reissuing a new IP address every so often just to reiterate their dedication to their serving up a dynamic IP address at no addtional cost to me. One of the casualties of their new policy is the monitoring of the system ( Read more... )

Setting up a media server on a PC or using a computer as a network audio renderer (endpoint) is easy nowadays. But the problem with computers is that they were never designed with audio in mind. While there are improvements for USB-based playback available (such as our JCAT USB Card FEMTO or JCAT USB Isolator), the network controller part of a PC ( Read more... )