> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Picbits Sales wrote: >> Further research on him shows that he **could** be someone who is quite >> active on the Linux scene and has written some Linux utilities. This >> further >> confused me as the guy who posts under the same name on the Linux forums >> seems a reasonably knowledgable person and a quick search for his answer >> wouldn't be beyond him. > > Just curious, what research _did_ you do on me? > > > -- > ..::[ solarwind ]::.. I did a bit of searching on your username / email address etc and ended up at the Ubuntu forums (which I use anyway) and just had a flick through some of the stuff you've done / posted / contributed. Nothing sinister and nothing to make me think you were trolling this mailling list on a wind up. Your sheer number of questions (you have virtually dominated the list over the weekend with your questions) made me a little suspicious. As a word of advice though, before you start on your calculator project etc, get a development type board for PICs and start messing about with some simple code. The learning process on PICs is pretty exponential to a point then just levels off. You'll find it hard at first then things start to click and you laugh at all the previous mistakes you made. Also make sure you read the errata datasheets for the devices you're using - there are some "gotchas" out there and some of the examples provided in the datasheets are still very buggy (make sure you set or clear the CFGS bits in the 18F series when using EEPROM or you'll have problems !!!). Have fun, start off with very basic projects, alter the code a bit, GOOGLE (!!!) for any problems you're having as the question will probably have been answered a million times before. The Microchip forums are a good source of information ( http://forum.microchip.com ) you will find a lot of the Piclist users (Olin included) on there as well. Dom -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist