Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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Mini lie-in; up & off to collect cable delivery I
missed yestreday from the DHL centre. Back home, made up some
cables, got everything connected up. Struggled with a mess of
un-packaged Java software, urk.
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Got strange errors left and right:
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0xff
avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0xf5
Eventually discovered that means that (dumbly) I had
forgotten that in the absence of any better silk-screen indication
a square solder-pad indicates pin-1, and my USB->TTL connector
had the wrong polarity; bingo - a programmed device.
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Out in the evening for dinner with Laura &
Creighton, most relaxing and pleasant.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)