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

Last post by tommolica - Today at 01:39:11 PM

Hi Buster, I'm in Dunsford, and did attend the Linux group meetings at the nursing home. Been here in Canada for 70 years now, will try to extend the time for a few more years.
I have read some of your interesting short stories and enjoy your style of writing, actually surprised that you haven't authored a book or two. Maybe you have and I do not know about them!!
Hope to see you this summer at parking lot/ Tim's meeting. Cheers.

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

Last post by BusterE - Yesterday at 06:42:16 PM

Tommolica, you did live in this this area I believe. I know little about you. Are you Canadian or a dread foreigner? And are you a permanent inhabitant of the hurricane state now? (I've seen some of the damage on a few visits.) Just curious.

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

Last post by tommolica - Yesterday at 10:58:40 AM

Hi Buster, just thought it was interesting that a processor in one of the control systems would reset when too many 1's were loaded into a certain register.
Bill also checked to make sure it was me, and not someone who had hacked my account.
I thought it might be interesting that processors with such quirky behavior would be still be kept in any production device at all. wonder if any desktop CPU's have any strange behavior like that??  Cheers Tom.

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

Last post by buster - May 09, 2024, 06:44:59 PM

Cutting grass, taking care of chickens, and warm weather sounds good, although that usually means you're old like me.

I'm curious why you picked a Linux site to register at, and why one in Canada, even though we are the most wonderful country in the world - never great, but pleasant and usually polite.

I understand you wish to inform people you didn't break the airplanes. But Peterborough, Ontario?

By the way my wife and I have spent a number of spring seasons wandering about your wonderful State Parks, and not the ones near the sea, but inland where life is quieter.

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General Discussion / Comment in Boeing crash articl...

Last post by tommolica - May 09, 2024, 10:46:04 AM

1 hour ago
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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.
The was the last thing I fixed before leaving Michigan
and returning home to Florida.

At the time, we didn't have the POPCNT instruction used
by today's Intel processors.   This board used a Z8000
which I spent a lot of time working on with other avionics
contracts.

Now?  Just cut grass and take care of the chickens.

-- Just some useless info for my Social Comment File.

I don't know anything about programing, but this sounds amazing.

#6

Linux Applications & Android apps / Re: Income Tax programs for 20...

Last post by Jason - May 09, 2024, 09:02:41 AM

That might be why it didn't work; the Efile code changes each year. It'd be good if could import the code. I recall that I had to type it in.

CRA has plans to do simple returns automatically. They will use the stubs for the details and you will confirm it's accurate. Some European countries already do it. After all, they have the stubs for employment, pension, disability, etc.

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Linux Applications & Android apps / Re: Income Tax programs for 20...

Last post by ssfc72 - May 09, 2024, 07:42:57 AM

I am not sure but I suspect MyTaxexpress maybe imports the old efile code from the previous years tax Return.
Maybe it then imports the proper efile code with your other info from your CRA account, when you tell MyTaxExpress to import the CRA info?

I will leave myself a note for next year, to pay attention to this.

How does MyTaxExpress know your efile code? Does it grab it from the NOA on the previous return? It changes yearly.

#8

Linux Applications & Android apps / Re: Income Tax programs for 20...

Last post by Jason - May 08, 2024, 04:45:31 PM

In the long run it seems trivial. But it only runs on Windows.

You can use Turbotax on any OS by using the online version. I've done it previously with no issues.

On the Intuit site (TurboTax) it claims you can use a simple tax form for free, and it lists a multitude of the usual stuff you can enter. It will not handle anything like dividends or capital gains. Might be worth investigating. Don't know what the catch is.

There's no catch but I believe you have to be under a certain income per year (see my previous post).

#9

Linux Applications & Android apps / Re: Income Tax programs for 20...

Last post by Jason - May 08, 2024, 04:42:15 PM

How does MyTaxExpress know your efile code? Does it grab it from the NOA on the previous return? It changes yearly.

#10

General Discussion / Re: Prescription eyeglasses on...

Last post by Jason - May 08, 2024, 04:40:12 PM

Nice price! Thanks for sharing, Bill and BrianP.