Justin Goeres

QUOTE (JDave @ May 15 2008, 11:17 AM)

Especially since I don't have faith in a disbelief of God

As funny as that is, it highlights one of the main problems with any discussion of (non-)religion, at least in America. The question is usually framed as "What do you believe in?" which requires atheism to be cast as a set of beliefs. It's not. Atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of a deity. To an atheist, the very question, "What do you believe in?" in a religious context, can be moot.

The time is fast approaching for me to upgrade my main development machine (i.e. my laptop) and there's a couple questions I'm having trouble answering for myself. Can y'all give me your experiences?

I do most of my work at my desk, but a fair amount of it in the field. However, a fair amount of that fieldwork also involves traveling by plane. I've always had the biggest laptop screen I can get for doing LabVIEW development. But in this day and age, 17" laptop screens and airplane tray tables don't mix. In fact, many coffeehouse tables and 17" laptop screens barely mix. In fact, anywhere outside of my hotel room and the customer site, traveling with a 17" machine is kind of a hassle.

So I'm thinking of moving to a dual-external-monitor setup for my desk, but buying a 15" laptop. At my desk, the dual huge monitors will be enough for me, and on the road I'll have the increased portability of a svelte 15" machine. Unless the confined space of the 15" machine will suck so much that I'll hate myself for the next 2 years for choosing it.

My questions are these: Are any of the rest of you doing anything like that? Is it even possible to enjoy doing LabVIEW development with less than 17" of real estate?

QUOTE (Val Brown @ May 16 2008, 05:07 PM)

BTW, I do have an external server that is available but, ok call me old school, I don't like the security issues of having to network over the internet to have access to a repository. I would much prefer something that allowed me to keep the external HDs.

I'm mostly in a single-developer situation, using Subversion & TortoiseSVN, but my repository lives on the server in my office and is externally accessible. From a security standpoint I have zero fears about it, for the following reasons:

1. I access it using https. (is that the webDAV-enabled version? I always forget.)
   
2. The SVN directory on the server is sandboxed away from everything else.
   
3. I use strong passwords.
   

That having been said, if you prefer to keep the repository locally, Jim's linked advice above is good.

QUOTE (Yen @ May 5 2008, 11:03 AM)

Great idea, although I'm not seeing Elmer anywhere.

Yeah, I realized about an hour ago that my script was assuming all the avatars are JPGs . Some are PNGs (like yours) or GIFs (like Jim's).

So if you see some missing, that's almost certainly why. If I go any further with this, I'll pay more attention to making sure I have the images I think I have.

Here's another partial idea I had. I downloaded the avatars of the top 60 LAVA posters (or rather, the 33/60 of them that have avatars -- thank Dog for wget) and started to arrange them inside the LAVA logo. I got as far as this and decided it was worth uploading as a proof of concept. This could be a portion of the shirt design as a whole. At the very least I would need to get the right font (or a clean source image) of the real LAVA logo to make it look right....

Comments/ideas?

P.S. If anybody wants them I'll be glad to send you the avatar jpgs and/or my source file (I use the GIMP, but we can convert to Photoshop if necessary).

I'm neither an artist, nor do I have time (at least in the next week) to offer, but something along these lines popped into my head:

So my hometown (Cedar Falls, IA) and surrounding areas are flooding. That happens every so often, and apparently some areas are getting hit pretty hard. Too bad . I hope the DISTek people are all OK .

But I think it's cool that the NWS/NOAA have live water level data and forecasts right on the web! There's really a ton of data there. Junk like this is part of what the Internet is really good for.

I wonder if there's any NI hardware in the system?

QUOTE (Phillip Brooks @ Apr 25 2008, 04:57 AM)

Woo Hoo! Moved up to #31!

That represents about a 30% increase in the numerical Rating!

Also, their headline is interesting...

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Any hope our little baby can crack the top 20 before either of those?

QUOTE (Michael_Aivaliotis @ Apr 24 2008, 09:35 PM)

Hey guys check out this new feature I want to install on LAVA. Let me know what you think.

Well played, sir.

In about a week I expect a follow-up post (or at the very least, a PM) from you letting us know how many outbound clicks that link receives. I hope the LAVA admin tools can tell you that.

QUOTE (jdunham @ Apr 23 2008, 12:27 PM)

I think it's more like how a 'six-figure income' is anything over $1E5.

And how the 21st century actually started in 2001. Actually, it's like that in 2 ways.

I do grant that it's a semantic difference. But then again, so is counting in any two different bases .

QUOTE (Jim Kring @ Apr 23 2008, 08:58 AM)

Since you can't have negative posts, I would assume that you have to have 4096 posts to be in that club

Nope. 4096 would be the beginning of the 13-Bit Post Count Club by my math.

E.g. 11 bits would hold everything up to b111 1111 1111, i.e. 2¹¹-1 = 2047.

So at Post #2048, Michael crossed over to b1000 0000 0000, or 12 bits. And there he shall toil for 2047 more posts, while crelf races off over the horizon.

Am I the first to notice that Michael is the lucky second member of the 12-Bit Post Count Club?

QUOTE (PaulG. @ Apr 23 2008, 06:30 AM)

LAVA is begging for money and you give these guys $4?

If Michael hadn't done it, I was going to do it myself .

QUOTE (crelf @ Apr 23 2008, 05:44 AM)

What, no LVOOP?!? I was expecting a Bottle class with "take one down" and "pass it around" methods...

I considered doing exactly that, but like AQ I thought it was important to have all the code (or as much of it as possible) visible in a screenshot. Stupid LVOOP and its pesky encapsulation...

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I agree. The queue one came to me in the moments between crawling into bed and falling asleep, and I felt like I had to get up and get it out before I could nod off. Some of the simpler ones are straightforward enough that I think non-dataflow people might be able to understand them a little. The queue version, not so much.

QUOTE (Aristos Queue @ Apr 22 2008, 10:27 PM)

Golf clap for these little tricks:

even if it is in fairly serious need of commenting for the unwashed mashes .

I lied. One more .

Why just sing it, when we can simulate it?!

Attached VI: Download File:post-2992-1208924348.vi

EDIT: Cleaned up the redundant Queue Status and reposted. I'm treating this thread like an ad hoc code repository .

Well, look who's gone all OCD on this .

Not as clean & purdy as the previous one, but manages to use Interleave 1D Arrays and some OpenG functions. :ninja:

Attached VI: Download File:post-2992-1208914716.vi

EDIT: That's it for tonight for me.

Here's another whack at it, with a bit less duplicated code. It also trims the two extra linefeeds at the end, for those who are counting .

Attached VI: Download File:post-2992-1208912496.vi

Can't stop now! Here's mine. Like orko's, this generates canonical lyrics. Credit where due: I started from normandinf's fine work.

Attached VI: Download File:post-2992-1208907382.vi

EDIT: After a few of us have a go at this, we should have a poll to decide which version to submit.

QUOTE (normandinf @ Apr 22 2008, 02:25 PM)

http://lavag.org/old_files/post-10515-1208902763.vi'>Download File:post-10515-1208902763.vi

That implementation doesn't catch the special cases at N=1 and N=0 bottles of beer on the wall.

I would humbly suggest that if anybody from LAVA submits a new example to that site, it would be cool if the credit was for all of LAVA. :thumbup: If Michael's OK with that, of course.

QUOTE (Antoine @ Apr 18 2008, 08:22 AM)

I had the same problem with Firefox 2 when I was using this microsoft power toy : Virtual Desktop Manager

I occasionally see the same problem in Firefox 2, as well, but I'm not using that power toy. Usually closing/reopening some tabs gets it back to normal, but in rare cases I have to restart Firefox entirely. I usually just chalk it up to the general psychosis of Windows, and move on.

But I'm disappointed to hear that someone is still seeing it in Firefox 3. I was sort of hoping it would magically disappear.

QUOTE (crelf @ Apr 10 2008, 05:33 AM)

I've travelled a fair bit across the world and have settled on the idea that people are people - irrespective on where they are or what value system they grew up with. I'm not interested in changing anyone just because they have different beliefs or ideals than me - I'm more interested in learning from them to understand their point of view. Who knows: maybe I'm the one who's skewed? No one is better or worse than anyone else, they're just different.

Normally I disdain quotes and aphorisms, but a good one I heard recently was along the lines of, "If meet someone and you think they're not an interesting person, you haven't listened to them long enough."

While sidestepping a debate about the Tibet issue itself, I don't think the protests that are following the torch around the world should be a surprise to anyone. There are a lot of people around the world who believe the situation in the Tibet Autonomous Region is an illegal military occupation, and who see China's record on human rights (in general, not just relative to Tibet) as one of the worst in the world. For those reasons alone, protests should have been expected.

But the situation with the torch is even worse than that, because of the way China has handled the monk protests that started last month. If people already think China is an oppressive, militaristic, authoritarian regime and then they kick all the foreign journalists out of the areas of unrest and blame all the injuries & fatalities on the protestors then China shouldn't be surprised when all the people who already don't like them get even angrier.

If there's a lack of understanding of the situation on the part of the protestors at the torch runs, I think there's an equal lack of understanding in the Chinese government and the IOC about what it would mean to bring the Olympics, "a symbol of peach and cooperation," as an IOC official called it the other day, to a country with a history of misunderstanding the degree to which the Western world perceives it to be the exact opposite of those things.

Just my :2cents: . And Irene, I don't think you're a spy .

QUOTE (Giseli Ramos @ Apr 8 2008, 11:15 AM)

I will backup every day.

May I suggest a http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">version control system?

At the risk of seeming unhelpful, what is the difference between this thread and your previous thread from a couple weeks ago?

QUOTE (scls19fr @ Apr 7 2008, 10:34 PM)

Secondly, I teach electronic and physics (thermal science) at Poitiers Institute of Technology (France)

So, I'm not a "Labview Advanced Virtual Architect"... therefore I'm looking for help here !

(I won't get credits for this !!!! .... can additional credits be changed for money ?)

We would like to make a test cell for students.

Aha! So it is for schoolwork!

QUOTE (scls19fr @ Apr 8 2008, 02:07 AM)

I haven't downloaded your code to look at it, but there's some information about state machines in the LabVIEW help, and there are some built-in templates that you can find under File >> New... in VI >> From Template >> Frameworks >> Design Patterns.