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Meetings / Re: Possible PLUG Mug get toge...

Last post by ssfc72 - Today at 07:33:05 AM

Ok Mike, thanks. Sorry you are unable to attend the PLUG Mug.

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Meetings / Re: Possible PLUG Mug get toge...

Last post by fox - Yesterday at 12:44:53 PM

I would have been but I'm out of town.

#3

Meetings / Possible PLUG Mug get together...

Last post by ssfc72 - Yesterday at 07:36:05 AM

Anyone interested in meeting up at the Tim Hortons, on Monaghan Rd at 2 pm for this Sunday?

This PLUG Mug is just a general get together, for a chat and a coffee/drink.

Let me know if you can attend, otherwise if there is no interest, then the meetup will be cancelled.

Bill

#4

Website & Forums / Thanks Jason, for getting the ...

Last post by ssfc72 - May 24, 2024, 06:41:52 AM

Thanks Jason! What was broken?

#5

General Discussion / Re: Comment in Boeing crash ar...

Last post by Jason - May 20, 2024, 11:21:30 AM

I worked on optimizing the 429 ARINC I/O controller for the 737-300
around 1990, but I don't think I broke anything.  That 32 bit data
bus controller had a weird glitch where it would reset when more
than 21 bits of the 32 bit word were 1s.  Weird.

That is weird, and amazing that they used something like that in flight control equipment.

I hadn't realized you were from Florida originally, Tom. What made you give up the warmth for frigid Canada? At least, it used to be frigid in the winter. Now it just seems to rain.

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Meetings / Re: Next meeting?

Last post by ssfc72 - May 17, 2024, 11:56:20 AM

Hi William. Glad to hear you are car mobile, again

We haven't had any formal meetings for a number of years, now.

Hopefully we will have a PLUG Mug get together at one of the coffee shops in Peterborough, maybe on a weekend, sometime very soon.

regards

Bill

#7

Meetings / Next meeting?

Last post by William - May 16, 2024, 09:53:37 PM

Now that my transmission is repaired, I can drive long distance.  Is there meetings soon?

#8

General Discussion / Re: Creating a Christmas Linux...

Last post by buster - May 16, 2024, 11:29:35 AM

I would have to assume she was simply watching. I can't imagine she would switch to jeans and cowboy boots from her red silk skirt. That would be a visual tragedy. A great loss.

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General Discussion / Re: Creating a Christmas Linux...

Last post by ssfc72 - May 16, 2024, 07:12:17 AM

Thanks for the story, Buster.

I think I saw Ms Tao at a Line dance demonstration near Lindsay, a few days ago. :-)

#10

General Discussion / Re: Creating a Christmas Linux...

Last post by buster - May 14, 2024, 06:15:23 PM

Chapter 16: The Sins of the Past Live On

The Christmas Computer had been completed quite a while ago, at least before Covid. And the Miracle on Cabot Street had occurred during Covid I believe.

The miracle occurred when, as described in chapters 13 and 14 of this story, my computer child was saved by a forgiving Gigabyte motherboard (she,her) who informed me that the bios was corrupt and she would now replace that bios with a replacement bios.

The thing is Oscar, who must have been lurking for years, struck again just three days ago and sent the computer into hysterics, and the on/off sequence started again in earnest. So I gave Marilyn the TV computer, an old Win10, and took the Christmas Computer down to the 'workshop'.

First thing to note: these two computers have gained weight, maybe all the emails that I never delete.
Second thing to note: The on/off sequence was just as depressing in the junk room as upstairs.
Third thing to note: Gigabyte, on a great white stallion called Bob, rode onto the screen and said, "The bios is corrupted. I shall now replace it with a backup."

That problem was solved, thanks to Lady Giga and Bob.

Two problems were left: Carry the heavier computer up the stairs, and the tougher difficulty, get the thing up off the floor so I can carry it. I managed both.

Marilyn is happy, and showed it by bringing me some crackers and peanut butter.

Lady Giga and Bob are out front on the lawn listening to Emmie and Eddie explain how they built that computer.

Maybe The End