So, today I did this massive circuit board layout for our big Shaft Seal test fixture controller. All right, I mean, I really meant to. Honest ( Read more... )

> DE wrote ( Read more... )

And back home am I. The actual trip (complete with thousands of pictures of rocks :P) will be documented soonish.

As previously mentioned during tonight's game of telephone pictionary* at LE and crew's house, I accomplished the following at work today:

I wrote one line of code.

And it was a #DEFINE. (Followed by a ; FIXME: WRITEME: make this ( Read more... )

Hehe...From a Navy SBIR solicitation for an automatic sniper-warning system:

This topic seeks technology that will provide a capability to detect a potential sniper at a distance. The technology needs to work autonomously, without having the user actively participate in the scan of the area. [...] The most likely technology would be a laser or ( Read more... )

So, I get into work Monday morning, dive immediately for the coffee machine to get a pot started, and get allllmost fully seated at my desk when one of the Mechies calls up with "Tim, you're here! Um...can I come over?". These are some of those words you just love to hear, like when a girlfriend says "we need to talk...". Normally people just ( Read more... )

Quick update: HAL, a friend and former college roommate from Back Home (or close), is going to be in Boston this weekend for a job interview on Friday. I'd like to drag him around the city a bit and introduce him to my friends. What are people doing this weekend ( Read more... )

Windows should not be used for servers. End of discussion.
OSes which have a Registry should not be used for servers.
OSes which can only be configured through a GUI should not be used for servers.

Three guesses why I didn't get jack done today, why the entire office has no website or email, and what I'll likely be doing tomorrow.
cexxy version

It's been one of those weeks... seasons. There has been simultaneously so much, and so little, to report. Work is kind of the same old; it seems as though I've been spending record numbers of hours there, and yet, getting not a damned thing done. As for personal life, not much to report there either, be it achievements, new relationships or ( Read more... )

• Councillor Hamann: Have you ever been to the engineering level? I love to walk there at night, it's quite amazing. Would you like to see it?
• Neo: Sure.
• Councillor Hamann: Almost no one comes down here, unless, of course, there's a problem. That's how it is with people - nobody cares how it works as long as it works. I like it down here. I like to be ( Read more... )

"This is Habib with Industrial Machinery Magazine ( Read more... )