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Oh, it's Friday the 13th, that explains it....

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    glennPattonWork3
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    Hi All, As you might have gathered from the title I have been chasing my tail today with a mix of my software and hardware. I fully hang my head due to messing up a MAX232 circuit and taking stupid time to find my error. Home time cannot come quick enough! Glenn

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      Hi All, As you might have gathered from the title I have been chasing my tail today with a mix of my software and hardware. I fully hang my head due to messing up a MAX232 circuit and taking stupid time to find my error. Home time cannot come quick enough! Glenn

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      Jorgen Andersson
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      MAX232, now that's blast from the past. Haven't worked with those since the nineties, can't say I've missed them either.

      Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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        MAX232, now that's blast from the past. Haven't worked with those since the nineties, can't say I've missed them either.

        Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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        Mark_Wallace
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        That's the trouble with stuff that doesn't work particularly well: it doesn't get fixed, because everyone is too busy "fixing" the stuff that already works perfectly.

        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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          Hi All, As you might have gathered from the title I have been chasing my tail today with a mix of my software and hardware. I fully hang my head due to messing up a MAX232 circuit and taking stupid time to find my error. Home time cannot come quick enough! Glenn

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          Oh that's good. Based on the subject I thought Jason had come back.

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            Hi All, As you might have gathered from the title I have been chasing my tail today with a mix of my software and hardware. I fully hang my head due to messing up a MAX232 circuit and taking stupid time to find my error. Home time cannot come quick enough! Glenn

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            MAX232? Real men do this with an output flag and an input flag of the CPU and handle the timing and the protocol in software :-)

            The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
            This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
            "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada."

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              Oh that's good. Based on the subject I thought Jason had come back.

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              Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
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              Or maybe the Evil (Eminem references himself as Evil, and wears a Mask like Mr. Voorhees did) would...

              The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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                MAX232? Real men do this with an output flag and an input flag of the CPU and handle the timing and the protocol in software :-)

                The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada."

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                glennPattonWork3
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                Now that is what I was going to do but then windows got in the way...

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                  Now that is what I was going to do but then windows got in the way...

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                  Now I'm just waiting for a response about Real Men and Windows. :)

                  Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                    Now that is what I was going to do but then windows got in the way...

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                    Recently I took a look at this website[^]. My old computer is just the same model. His idea to hook up the little serial to USB board is interesting. No MAX232, just hooking up said CPU signals to the converter and on the software side everything stays as it was for the last 37 years.

                    The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                    This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                    "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada."

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                      That's the trouble with stuff that doesn't work particularly well: it doesn't get fixed, because everyone is too busy "fixing" the stuff that already works perfectly.

                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                      Mike Hankey
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                      If everyone would just live by those magic words; If it ain't broke don't fix it!

                      New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me. I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.

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                        Recently I took a look at this website[^]. My old computer is just the same model. His idea to hook up the little serial to USB board is interesting. No MAX232, just hooking up said CPU signals to the converter and on the software side everything stays as it was for the last 37 years.

                        The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                        This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                        "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada."

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                        glennPattonWork3
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                        Cool! Will have to look at home! Net Nazis. ......h

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                          Hi All, As you might have gathered from the title I have been chasing my tail today with a mix of my software and hardware. I fully hang my head due to messing up a MAX232 circuit and taking stupid time to find my error. Home time cannot come quick enough! Glenn

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                          jeron1
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                          We have a lot of legacy hardware that still uses them, I'm never too far from my breakout boxes and portable scope!

                          "the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst

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                            Hi All, As you might have gathered from the title I have been chasing my tail today with a mix of my software and hardware. I fully hang my head due to messing up a MAX232 circuit and taking stupid time to find my error. Home time cannot come quick enough! Glenn

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                            kmoorevs
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                            glennPattonCONTRACTING wrote:

                            Home time cannot come quick enough

                            I seem to have the opposite problem...working from home today and have no problems with my stuff, however the same cannot be said for the Mrs. which meant that I had to spend over an hour this morning trying to resolve wireless issues with her work laptop and wireless printer. In the meantime, she wants to listen to iTunes on her all-in-one desktop system only to get an error message about missing files...it was working yesterday. Option two for music: use the iheartradio app...try it and it closes immediately without a message...just won't run. :wtf: Option 3 for music: wmp if I can find it...ok, that works. :) The all-in-one could access the printer, but not the laptop...the laptop could access the materials she needed to print (vpn), but the all-in-one could not, even through their web based system, erroring out with a 'resource not found'...blah, blah. :confused: In the end, she emailed them to me and I printed them for her. On a side note, it really pains me watching the way she (the mrs.) goes about trying to solve a problem. She is quick to click on the first option that appears without reading it at all, which is what caused the problem connecting to the printer in the first place...she had somehow set the home wireless network to Public, cutting off access to other network devices! :wtf: It still irritates me that the printer does not have an Ethernet connection.

                            "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

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