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All our lauded technological progress, our very civilization, is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein.
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The Common Sense Guide to Not fucking up Your Business or Organisation.
A much longer post than my normal ones and, as the title suggests, it wont mince words. This is not about creating a business or growing a business, it is about not screwing up your current business when it is … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Efficiency, Office Politics, Politics
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The Power is On, Why Doesn’t it Work?
Yes, this is just another one of my totally biased perspectives on company efficiency, especially where related to its IT policies, procedures and systems. So again feel free to switch to another post or even better, check out one of … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Efficiency, FOSS, Management, MRP, Office Politics, Process Automation, Project Management
Tagged Business Continuity
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Industrial Display
Recently required some large character displays for displaying of a 4,5 and 6 digit number behind a customised dashboard prominently displayed in several locations in the factory, the digit must be readable from very far away and needed to be … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, FOSS, Uncategorized
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Dumbo’s Feather
Disney Lawyers Please Look Away! This title pretty well sums up my job description as a contractor at the Indevin winery for the last 12 years. Yes there were long nights, moments of rapid development, followed by the long tail … Continue reading
Posted in Efficiency, Indevin, Management, MRP, New Zealand, NZ, Process Automation, Project Management, Uncategorized
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New Office and Workshop
Well I Finally completed the move of the electronics lab and workshop in to the new custom built work shop adjacent to the house. The new workshop is 144sqM so about 10 times the size of the old room I … Continue reading
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Spocks Brain
There was an episode in the very first star trek series called “Spocks Brain” in which aliens use a machine to boost their intellegence and transplant out Spocks Brain into a computer. In the episode the skill to do this … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Funny, Uncategorized
Tagged lifestyle, random
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USB Real-Time Clock for Raspberry Pi, etc
Unlike a PC the Raspberry Pi does not come with any sort real time clock. Usually this is not a problem as it is connected to the Internet and a simple poll of one of the many clock sources will … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, FOSS, Uncategorized
Tagged CDC, DS1307, PIC16F455, Raspberry Pi, RTC, USB
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Encryption for very low data rate embedded systems
If your latest IOT project needs to run on batteries for a few years and you need to send some important data over the airwaves or across a serial line then you are in a bit of a poor situation … Continue reading
Lora Data Collection Terminal
Not really designed for manufacture, but the final version of this device is quite easy to assemble and doesn’t look too embarrassing for a low volume unit. Design files are here => EasyEDA The only change I may be making … Continue reading
Posted in Bulls-i, Electronics, Indevin, LoRa, Mobile Terminal, Office Politics
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If the worst should happen!
Finally got around to having a proper holiday in the UK and here I am at the end of it with no tan, a few kg heavier and no actual support problems to report other than a few RTFM problems. … Continue reading
Posted in Bulls-i, Indevin, IT Failures, Project Management
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Re-Envisioning Mobile Communications
What follows is an un-researched flight of fancy I’m totally over smartphones! I went back to a dumb phone 12 months ago and my old smartphone is now just used as the remote control for Netflix, Viber calls (see below) … Continue reading
Posted in IT Failures, Mobile Terminal, Speculation, The Future, Uncategorized
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