Submitted by Lew on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 20:08
Back in 2016, a question came up in one of the groups as to how you would code a pipeline in C. The requestor wanted C code equivalent to the shell pipeline
- echo "Hello World" | tr "a-z" "A-Z" | sort | rev
Since I hadn't actually attempted before to write such a pipeline in C, I gave it a try. I came up with a couple of variations, which I never posted back to the newsgroup.
Recently, another question reminded me of my code. So, rather than let it moulder in my collection of coding bits, I post it here as a reference:
Submitted by Lew on Tue, 12/22/2020 - 01:57
Submitted by Lew on Thu, 11/26/2020 - 18:24
So, I physically installed the TDM410P telephony card, and now I needed to install some device drivers to run it. And, here I got into the fun stuff: software. This TDM410P clone card came with little documentation, and no software of any kind, so I had to find the driver source code, compile it, install it, configure it, load it and use it.
Submitted by Lew on Thu, 11/26/2020 - 15:40
Telephony slowly moves from the Alexander Graham Bell, two copper wires leading to the house stage of it's life into the more flexible, more portable over the internet, in my pocket stage. And I, even more slowly, move with it. I still want a home phone, and I want to tinker, and I have nothing better to do.
Submitted by Lew on Wed, 11/25/2020 - 12:28
As you may know, for the last five years, I've used an IP04 as my home PBX. This device has served me well; in that time adaptively blocking over 900 unwanted calls while permitting friends and family to call me, even when I have travelled.
Submitted by Lew on Wed, 09/30/2020 - 17:29
Back when I was a wee lad, my mother bought me a children's record. One side had a narration of "The Little Red Hen", and the other "The Tortoise and the Hare". One of my favourite lines, spoken by the Tortoise on the B side of that record, follows me even now: "I may be slow, but I'm sure." And so it goes with my ongoing upgrade from Slackware 14.0 to Slackware 14.2.
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