One of the most annoying parts about being a geek is dealing with a world full of “fake geeks.” In a world full of fake news, fake sincerity and fake ethics (thank you Bill and Hillary Clinton!) I guess it was bound to happen. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve always had “fake geeks.” Most of them were management. You’ve all encountered them. That one worthless MBA who would stand just out of sight while real … Fake GeeksRead more
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Old is New Again
If you live long enough in IT, everything happens at least twice. The first book I ever wrote, “Zinc It! Interfacing Third Party Libraries with Cross Platform GUI’S” has become somewhat current again. Some number of years ago I was contacted by a gentleman asking about this book. He was embarking on a journey to port a now OpenSource version of ZAF (Zinc Application Framework) to a current C++ compiler. We exchanged a few emails … Old is New AgainRead more
Posted inExperience / Information Technology / Thank You Sir May I Have Another
Qt and USB – Pt. 2
Today’s post will be the first of at least two posts about identifying your USB device. I started by adding the following code. out << “ProductID: ” << desc.idProduct << endl; r0_status = libusb_open(dev, &hHandle); if (r0_status != LIBUSB_SUCCESS) { out << “Error ” << r0_status << ” opening USB device. Error text: ” << libusb_error_name(r0_status) << endl; } else { unsigned char serialNumber[255] = { }; unsigned char vendorName[1024] = { }; unsigned char … Qt and USB – Pt. 2Read more
Posted inExperience / Information Technology / Politics / Thank You Sir May I Have Another
Human Trafficking – Information Technology’s Dirty Little Secret
Rather than cutting and pasting an article I wrote on another site, I’m just going to include a link to the article of same name an ask you to sign the petition.
Posted inInformation Technology / Raspberry Pi
Qt and USB – Pt. 1
Recently I’ve had some discussions on the qt-interest mailing list about Qt and USB and why it is not integrated in the package. Many of the kids there aren’t old enough to shave so they don’t remember this _exact_ same journey with serial ports. Couldn’t be done in a cross platform blah blah blah. Then there were various “unofficial” Qt based serial port classes. Then we had “almost” official stuff showing up in the Qt … Qt and USB – Pt. 1Read more