I remember thinking trigraphs were a cheap hack when they were first introduced. Now that I’m old I get called on to help “modernize” legacy code. Keyboard images courtesy of Admiral Shark’s Keyboards. Too much of the information posted on-line about Trigraphs and Digraphs is incomplete or just plain wrong. Those who have only ever worked on x86 hobby computer systems blame the 7-bit ASCII-ish ISO 646 character set not having some of the critical … Trigraphs and DigraphsRead more
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Ubuntu 22.04 USB Drives Don’t Sleep
Ubuntu 22.04 really screwed the pooch when it comes to external drives. USB drives don’t sleep anymore. Install the Linux Mint version based on this same LTS and it doesn’t have the problem. I mean this pooch is hosed so bad you can’t even see SMART settings in Gnome Disks. Work Around Use Synaptic Package Manager and install hd-idle. If you don’t have Synaptic Package Manager use that icky Ubuntu Software thing to install Synaptic … Ubuntu 22.04 USB Drives Don’t SleepRead more
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Eclipse and Doxygen
Eclipse and Doxygen can be a bit non-obvious to configure. Once again StackOverflow allows people who know absolutely nothing to close questions. I have written about the closed question more than once on here. Give people without a clue a little bit of power and they will run amuck. Eclipse is not something I use often. There are a few embedded systems shops still using it but most roll their own cross compile or use … Eclipse and DoxygenRead more
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Scrum Destroys Consulting Firms
Agile and Scrum are quickly destroying the human species, I’ve even written a book about it. Here is how it is single-handedly destroying IT consulting firms. I’ve been at IT consulting for over 30 years now and watched as Agile rotted firms from the inside out. What destroyed them (and most IT projects) was the adoption of scrum. How I know Just being an IT consultant for over 30 years doesn’t give a person this … Scrum Destroys Consulting FirmsRead more
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NVIDIA 390 and BOINC
There has been great wailing about BOINC dropping support for the NVIDIA 390 series driver. I’m told some Linux distros don’t even include it anymore. Windows 10 users got to see a black screen after an OS update if they had either a Quadro or NVS 310 because support for the driver was dropped. Sadly they didn’t choose to fall back to generic drivers. Personally I have a small collection of NVS 310 and Quadro … NVIDIA 390 and BOINCRead more