I understand that snowmobiling suddenly got better as of this afternoon? :-D School buses cancelled, parking bans, etc all good signs. Greetings from the West Coast where snow is fleeting, at least in the lowlying areas.

Sander Rossel wrote:

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So, substitute web-test for web-tst and I think you have figured out what is wrong...this is only a test. :-D

My favorite mag (back then), mainly for circuit cellar....

swampwiz wrote:

this was the worst pile of excrement that software development has ever managed to produce

Umm Canada's Pheonix Pay system might rival that.... Ashes to Ashes - The Canadian Phoenix Pay System Debacle • McLeod Governance[^] Although admittedly not for the number of people affected. :sigh:

I have a rough time pronouncing it, never mind spelling it. Nice town though. Lots of decent Pubs, with good food, and Grolsch is a decent beer. People were pretty friendly and worked through our language barrier, making for a pleasant work trip. Ken

Your (Dutch) problem is the bikes...thousands of the elephants'ers....working against any moving cars. I visited Hengelo and Enschade a few times...bikes everywhere. Demons on 2 wheels. Ken

How the hell can you upvote, because this one needed it.

The cake is a lie.

I agree with everything OG has said on this, but I would offer two further points to consider: USB 2.0 can operate at 60 MBS (that's bytes not bits). Nyquist theory for A2D conversion -basically- says that sampling anything above 2 X Freq_max is good, suggesting that for audio, sampling above 40 KHz would serve the audio spectrum. You have lots of slack in 60 MBS. The second point is that windows is time non-deterministic in events. That is, you do not know if USB events are 15 ms between, or 50 ms between, you have no capability of forcing this. And for the software to do the turn-around takes a bunch of time. To do time deterministic events, you would need a Real Time Operating System or RTOS like some versions of Linux or QNX or NI Labview RT. That said, I don't think your problem is in the USB 2.0 area, but in some other area that is causing the delays.

Ken

BYTE was a great magazine, with the Circuit Cellar my favourite part. That part lives on in a magazine called Circuit Cellar Ink, although the original author Steve Ciarcia has since retired. Ken

I think some of the problems are based on Win 10 doing some half baked shutdowns that don't actually shut down. Based on some searches, I created an icon with the target as "C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /s /f /t 0" and it works. There is a similar one for a restart icon "C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /r /f /t 0" These seem to work a treat. I have also found that rebooting an extra time after an upgrade seems to make things work more reliably. YMMV. Ken

Marc, anyone, how do you give something an upvote (or 10).

I bought the TI99-4a in 1983 for $100 as well. TI had announced they were getting out of the small computer business and they all went on a fire sale across the country world. It was a great way to get into the game for a small price. I have some empathy for the people that bought it 6 months before for several times that, though.

My son, in a college course on energy systems, asked me why we don't add wind generators on our cars to recover energy and extend our endurance. I suggested he should wait for the next semester to re-ask the question. He didn't, but I did ask him if he understood and asked me to forget the question... In short, I think the teaching method nowadays is to get them moving then get them to understand the background, where a bunch of years ago it was crawl, walk, run. At issue is the sense of success, and attention span. Can we build better engineers using the older crawl, walk, run paradigm or the newer walk, build background, run paradigm. Personally, I am a bit older, and I have always learned on the first, but am experiencing the latter as I see new things evolve (and try to learn Python), and am not sure of how effective it is. I leave it to the younger generation to decide.... Ken

True, perhaps some lemonade :-D [^]

given your sig, I think a bottle of maple syrup would be appropriate... Ken :-D

Not sure it would stick to fiber, and a large difference in scales (1/72 and 1/16). Your rivets with glue look good though and it appears to be a pretty decent and repeatable technique. Ken

Quite a bit, especially at the 1/72 aircraft scale I normally used (and a whole bunch of years ago). You had to heat the plastic to the melting point, pulling it into a string until you could touch the molten stuff to the model and make it stick. It was a technique I read about...not my invention by any means - and my first few times did more damage than any form of success.... :sigh:

11C, in Toronto, On, Ca. today on a long weekend, the beginning of summer long weekend...the May two-four (as in cases of beer) long weekend (aka Queen Victoria day, but we have a better name...). Some of that global warming would be welcome about now :cool:

I used to do rivets on models using the plastic model strue ( plastic interconnects), heated with a hot gun and basically touched the surface and pulled off. Left a nice bump that when sanded a bit was pretty nice. A bunch of practise to get it uniform though.... Ken (apparently the extraterrestrial)