Tag Archives: C++ programming

What’s New?

Hey Reader’s It’s been a while. Looks like I have not written a post since last February. This does not mean that the world has stopped spinning, in fact things are moving as fast as ever in Silicon Vally North. … Continue reading

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What is Yang?

YANG is a way to model data that will be used by the NETCONF protocol and NETCONF is a standard way to manage network elements (NE’s). Programming languages have BNF’s that define how the languages work which allows programmers to … Continue reading

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The Internet of Things

If you follow technology, you have probably heard of “The Internet of Things” or IOT. This term refers to a future where everything is connected to the Internet for some reason or another. I have no doubt that this will … Continue reading

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The next best thing to open source

We have all benefited from the availability of open source and many of us have contributed to that software pool. Commercial software development exists because it is a simple business model that keeps people employed, or because a specific software … Continue reading

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Round pegs in square holes

As I get older, some would say that I get more crusty [grin]. This may fall in that category, but my argument is that there is nothing wrong with simple and flexible. Put another way, “Round open source products do … Continue reading

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Updates and Open Source

I don’t know if I’m the only one who is starting to develop an unnatural fear of updates, but there have been a greater number of them lately on Linux platforms. Updates by themselves are not necessarily bad unless they … Continue reading

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A Network Hypervisor

I recently watched a video of a lecture given at Stanford University by a prof from Berkeley (Go Figure). The lecture was about the definition of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and how the original team had succeeded in some areas … Continue reading

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Bio-Enhancements (Bionic ear)

What would it take to improve on what nature has provided? I ask myself that question and I come up with a number of answers. The first enhancement that comes to mind is better hearing. As we age our hearing … Continue reading

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Data Acquisition hardware

I know I have talked about this before but I recently rediscovered how incredibility cost effective current mobile device are as data acquisition devices. The world is scrambling to create an “Internet of connected things” with custom built hardware, but … Continue reading

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“The Tile”

A couple of weeks ago I had a post called “Find my iThingy”. After describing that post to one of my friends he sent me a link to a crown sourced project called “The Tile”. http://www.thetileapp.com/ I’m sure many of … Continue reading

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