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at Chapalas!
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Yay for cold stone on a hot day!
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On the plane back to Eugene
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At the Star Trek convention. This was in Quark's Bar.
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First night in Vegas!
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Just sitting in my office. The first photo for this project.
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Ultrasonic Sensors - Day 2
Just as I had suspected, the new 16mhz crystals work great.continue reading... -
Ultrasonic Sensors - Day 1
Disclaimer: The posts in this "Ultrasonic Sensors" category are primarily a reference for myself during this project. However, I suspect some of the things I discover will be of use to others doing similar projects, so I will make them public.continue reading... -
this is art, part two
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This is art
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Victor doing his thing
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I just discovered i can send photos from my phone!
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Fun with caller ID!
We just got caller ID at my house. One of my roommates doesn't have a cell phone, so eventually everyone else stopped answering the house phone because it was always for him. But then he would come home and not know who called. Now of course, caller ID solves this problem by logging who called on the phone handset, but being me, that is not enough!continue reading... -
How to keep a MySQL connection alive
Ok, so I wasted about 3 hours on this, and have only sort of found a solution. I have a PHP script which is going to be running 24/7 checking a message queue and then interacting with a database when a message is received. It was mostly working, until it sat there for a day and I tried to use it the next day. The PHP script had quit, with the error "MySQL server has gone away." I figured there must be some sort of time limit that the mysql server will keep an idle connection alive. I couldn't find it, but luckily I was talking to nick, and he did! He found this blog entry. So I changed the my.cnf file to set the timeout to one week:continue reading...
