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March 12 2010
kyrah
“ Automake was originally written by David J. MacKenzie <djm@uunet.uu.net>. It would not be what it is today without the invaluable help of these people:— http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/automake/automake-7/automake/THANKS?txt
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Chris Provenzano proven@io.proven.org
Christian Cornelssen ccorn@cs.tu-berlin.de
Clifford Wolf clifford@clifford.at
Dalibor Topic robilad@kaffe.org
danbp danpb@nospam.postmaster.co.uk
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.. I've just stumbled upon that. I honestly do not remember writing any Automake code and hereby reject all responsibility for what Automake is today.. ;-) ”
“ Back on Wing Commander 1 we were getting an exception from our EMM386 memory manager when we exited the game. We'd clear the screen and a single line would print out, something like "EMM386 Memory manager error. Blah blah blah." We had to ship ASAP. So I hex edited the error in the memory manager itself to read "Thank you for playing Wing Commander." ”— Ken Demarest 20 Aug 2009
March 11 2010
Jeri makes integrated circuits
[Jeri Ellsworth] made this silicon inverter at home, by hand. It took her two years to get the process figured out and achieve something we didn’t think was possible. The complexity of manufacture, and the wide range of tools and materials needed seem insurmountable but she did it anyway. Her home chip fab Flickr set is well commented and details her work area and part of the processing. If you’re hurting for more check out her 40 minute Metalab talk which we’ve embedded after the break.
If her name sounds familiar but you just can’t place it you may know her from The Fatman and Circuit Girl. We’ve also featured some of her hacks, such as her Pinball challenge against [Ben Heckendorn], and her giant Etch-a-Sketch.
[Thanks Deyjavont]
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50MHz to 100Mhz scope conversion
[Ross] is the proud owner of a 50 MHz Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope. He’d like to have the 100 MHz version but the $400 difference in price puts it out of his reach. After some extensive poking around on the PCB and pouring over datasheets, he managed to reverse engineer the design and upgrade to a 100 MHz version. This is as easy as desoldering one capacitor to deactivate a high-pass filter present in the lesser model of scope, unlocking the faster potential of its bigger brother.
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