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Family Veterans
At my request for our kid’s school veteran’s day project, I asked my mother, Jennifer, to root out some family veteran’s photos. This set is the oldest vet in the family (on the Flesher side, at least): Henry Flesher. Fought in the Revolutionary War. Obviously, this isn’t a “photo” since they weren’t invented then, but…
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Make, classpaths and environment variables
Make, Ant and probably any other build language (and/or toolkit, since Ant is not much in the way of a language) are tricky bastards. I’ve been maintaining a parallel set of build scripts for a Java and C++ project for a few years now, and this has been great practice in getting my Make chops…
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Damned Make, I remember why I use Ant.
OK, this is why computer science is hard: syntax. When you have “computer scientists” that make something (apparently useful) so difficult to use, you get people doing insane things like creating Apache Ant. This is bullshit: “missing separator.” jreynolds@pricklypear /home/candela/btbits/x64_btbits/client > make Makefile:59: *** missing separator. Stop. jreynolds@pricklypear /home/candela/btbits/x64_btbits/client > vi Makefile +59 jreynolds@pricklypear /home/candela/btbits/x64_btbits/client…
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Readings for 10/26/2013
These are the reading for 10/26/2013 I computed the average power used per day from October 11-26 with this formula: 13.51 Kwh / 15 days = 0.900666667 kwh, or 900.666667 Watt Hours per day subject Volts Amps Watts Hz Kwh Computer 122.9 0.34 40.0 60.0 13.51
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steps of project.
I know I have already posted some of these but some are new 1.acquire power meter (check) 2.attach to existing computer (uncheck) 3.record that computer’s power usage in a month (uncheck) 4. make computer (70% check) 5.attach solar cells 6.record power saved (uncheck) 7.compare data
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Ninety Nine Percent
Originally posted on Bill Chance: Subtle Graffiti Dallas, Texas, Deep Ellum Art Park NinetyNinePercent “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are…
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#readlater An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability | Smashing UX Design
An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability | Smashing UX Design.
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