One of the most frustrating and annoying programs on my Windows computers used to be the Adobe PDF reader. Back in its early versions it was a fast, light, useful program. Then a few years ago somebody at Adobe drank a bottle of liquid stupid, and the program’s been hurtling downhill ever since.
The problems with [...]

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Recently I’ve been doing a lot of embedded uClinux programming for the Analog Devices Blackfin BF537 processor. Writing drivers, application code, things like that. It’s a lot of fun.

One of the things I’d been battling with was finding a reasonably fast JPEG encoder. Now you need to understand that the BF537 doesn’t have a JPG [...]

Last year I was in the market for a cheap digital oscilloscope. After much looking around I finally settled on a Wittig Welec W2022A oscilloscope.  www.welec.de 2 channels, colour VGA display, 1 GS/sec sampling rate, it looked awesome.
I purchased mine off ebay from tek4you_eu and it arrived in a week or so.
The big problem I [...]

I’d been with godaddy.com for a number of years, and back in their day they were decent. But it seems that Bob Parsons became more interested in chasing women and fast cars than running his business, and his company has slipped. A lot.
Recently I’d had a number of different folks complain they could no longer [...]