Category Archives: computers

How stupid does she think we are?

Yesterday, the excuse that Hillary Clinton gave for conducting official business through a private email server was that she had two phones to access multiple email servers. There are multiple problems with that “explanation, but since when do you need multiple phones to manage multiple email accounts? I have access to my personal email server (like the Clintons’, but more secure because mine runs Linux instead of Windows) and a Gmail account through my phone. It’s lame email software (Outlook comes to mind) that can’t handle multiple accounts.

Linux 3.17 is out, and some of my code is in it

It’s not the first time that happened…submitted a couple of drivers for a video-capture card we built at my previous job back around ’05 or ’06.

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2406.c?id=refs/tags/v3.17

I submitted this a few months ago for my Raspberry Pi beer-fridge controller. I picked the parts and put it together without checking to see first if the necessary driver support was already in place…derp! Fortunately, it’s relatively easy to correct such deficiencies when you have source-code access to the whole system.