The software development process.

When they built my house (12 years ago), they showed up with two flat-bed trucks filled with factory-assembled trusses, and a big-ass crane.

Completely installed in one day. Roof sheathing complete the next day. Sealed and tar-papered the next.

Then they loaded the roof with the tile pallets ;-) And then let it sit for a week... I guess to pre-settle it. Then a swarm of Mexicans installed the roof tile in one day.

...Jim Thompson

Misused word. Should be attributions.

Set your original line width to accommodate maybe 4 re-quotes without wrapping.

...Jim Thompson

some

You can't win them all, Jim. ;-)

Hello Jim,

Ok, now, there!

(Thanks, Keith)

That helps. Attributes is what my CAD calls additional part fields :-)

It's set to 72 characters. But I have the impression nothing moves when I change that value. I did receive the occasional complaint in NGs that my text wasn't wrapping correctly or not at all. So gradually I get the impression it might be the news server doing things with it.

Hello Robert,

Yes. Finally a company that has realized that operating their own news server is the way to go. That was one of the other reasons for me to switch. The support is excellent and fast. When staff sees that other users haven't responded to an important question they come in.

It's not a garage business. They seem to have a sizeable staff plus sales offices in other continents. Very responsive as well. In case the Florida office doesn't answer check the hurricane maps...

In message , dated Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Jim Thompson writes

I have found that setting it to 72 characters rarely causes any trouble, but I do use Courier 12 always. 72 characters of Hattenschweiler looks very odd!

"Robert Latest" skrev i en meddelelse news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net...

Actually, back in the very old days with no ubiquous network connectivity I was tasked by setting up an Internet Cafe in a corner of the business using a bunch of older PC's. I set them up with RedHat Linux and put the Win98 skin on them so not to disturb the heathens and still keep the virii off.

This ran unnoticed by anyone for about a year until PHB tried to install Office+Access+IIS on one of the boxes to set up a private web server for his football club (!!)

So you are right - the users do not care either as long as things look and work more or less as expected.

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Mozilla is well behaved. The attributes are the initial lines saying "Joe wrote:" or similar. They allow readers to attach the author to lines, based on the number of '>' characters on the left.

Nah. Teddy Roosevelt was the original truss buster. He broke up the steal truss, the oyl truss, the raylroad truss, the banking truss with the edge of his hand. A forerunner of todays Judo types. And a marked contrast to todays Republicans. :-)

You ought to post that on Wikipedia.

I see what you're saying here, but I'd still put the WDT reset in the loose loop you mention above.

But I don't want to get in a big long discussion of style. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

It's all a joke anyway:

;-)

Cheers! Rich

Please learn to attribute properly. You've put my name over Tim Wescott's words, and completely deleted my comments.

Please be more careful. Rich

You forgot the hernia truss ;-)

...Jim Thompson

With the more exotic "and such" being perhaps surprisingly common. Cosmic rays and radioactive decay cause one flipped bit a week in a PC with a gig of RAM, according to this:

A straight extrapolation from Corsair's numbers to an MCU with 16 KiB of RAM would give one error every 1300 years, which isn't worth losing much sleep over. The Corsair document is a bit thin on technical details though. Perhaps DRAM is more susceptible than SRAM and we needn't worry at all for a typical MCU. Or perhaps SRAM is much more susceptible and the probability of error is significant.

Does anybody have any proper numbers for 'random' errors in MCUs?

Tim

I couldn't ask for a better endorsement!

Thanks! Rich

I use fairly clunky technology CMOS cpu's and smallish (1M-4M) eproms mostly, so that's not nearly as twichy as a PC with a gig of dram. I usually disable the watchdog on prototypes, just to make sure it's not needed!

I hear scairy things about fine-geometry ram-based FPGAs, in that cosmic rays can flip config bits. One Xilinx analysis gets the failure rate down by making the claim that, in the average app, most of the config bits don't matter!

John

Owwww !

Graham

Exactly the point - if a company wants to switch to OpenOffice (or StarOffice, if they are an American company and want to pay money so that they have someone to sue), they should simply do the swap on the company PCs. Most users will barely notice the difference - they have no idea what the programs they use are called in the first place. When asked what word processor they use, people will tell you it is "Windows XP", or perhaps "Dell".