Another DACS member noticed Chuck’s obit in the Ridgefield Press. Chuck and I started the Visual Basic SIG back in 1993 or 4 – I’m not exactly sure – and ran it together for ten years. Chuck continued the SIG for several more years after I moved on to running other SIGs before he moved to … [Read more...]
November 19th: Single Board Computer Workshop
This month the Arduino oil tank application continues. We'll adapt the sample code I ran last month to measure a simple distance and write that value to the serial console. If I get far enough before the meeting, we'll look at using the Ethernet shield to put network the Arduino. I had found what I … [Read more...]
Books About Steve Jobs and Apple Computer
As the new movie, Steve Jobs, rolls out in theaters everywhere, my interest in the Apple story has resumed. This new movie, with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin (remember The West Wing on TV, same writer) promises to be excellent but does not attempt to tell the whole story. If you walk out of the … [Read more...]
October 21: Linux Workshop
We're going to look at some malware/virus malware that arrived by email and is intended to infect a Windows machine. Luckily it arrived at a Linux computer instead. We'll dissect the payload to see how it was intended to operate and what it does once it has installed itself. Then we'll see who it … [Read more...]
October 15th: Single Board Computer Workshop
Last month I "promised" a first stage look at ultra-sonic distance measurement. While this topic may sound [no pun] interesting, the real excitement centers on whether or not I can deliver on this! The goal is to use a HC-SR04 with an Arduino to measure distance. This is my first Arduino project and … [Read more...]
August/September 2015 Single Board Computer Workshop
Windows 10 IoT on the Raspberry Pi 2 Is IoT the NBT? If you said “Yes!”, then Microsoft might have something in a version of Windows 10 that runs on the Raspberry Pi 2. If your answer was “Huh?”, well that’s ok. We'll learn together. “IoT” means the Internet of things. No matter what that is, … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld by Jamie Bartlett 2015 Melville House Cyberspace, if I may use that term, is often divided into distinct parts. The news media does this every day, providing convenient compartments into which they stuff everything from politicians to television … [Read more...]
Living with Windows 10
Part 1 – Windows Insider Preview Back in the March, 2015, issue of DACS.doc, I wrote about two ways to install the technical (aka Windows Insider) preview of Windows 10. So from February until a few weeks ago I lived with Windows 10 as it morphed from the early public beta to the, shall we say, … [Read more...]
July 2015 Single Board Computer Workshop
Circuit and PC Board Design This month we had a special treat as William Kommritz gave a presentation on “Choices in Circuit and PCB Design”; basically a peek at his electrical engineering technology education at Rochester Institute of Technology. [I mistakenly said he was a computer science … [Read more...]
July 16th: Single Board Computer Workshop
Our presenter this month is Will Kommritz. As you recall, Will is a computer science student at RIT. His topic is "Choices in Circuit and PCB Design". He will show us some of his projects going into more detail about how he chose the components and designed the circuit board, To illustrate the … [Read more...]
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