I'm loving all the smugness on this thread. Presumably nobody on here has ever made a silly mistake? Chris On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Olin Lathrop wr= ote: > Sean Breheny wrote: >>> > http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/other/4208931/Engineers-try-to-r= esist-finger-pointing-in-debugging-radar-jammer?cid=3DNL_EELife >> >> I agree with Neil. I think these guys should really have known better. >> I think I discovered the kind of issues they met when I was about 14 >> years old. > > Yeah, this is really basic stuff. =A0What kind of idiot relies on Hyperte= rm to > upload code anyway!? =A0That also means this guy did a bootloader without= a > checksum. =A0Duh! =A0I've done a lot of bootloaders, but I never once eve= n > considered leaving out the checksum. =A0Even if you think the communicati= ons > channel is fine, what if power gets interrupted in the middle of a upload= , > the line gets disconnected, the user kills the program, or any of a numbe= r > of sufficiently possible things that could cause a bad uploaded image? > > It seems to me that reloading the previous working version would be one o= f > the first things you do to verify the hardware didn't break. =A0Another b= ig > "duh" for waiting 3 days to do that! > > This article is not really about some gotcha you have to watch out for, b= ut > rather proof once again there's always another moron right around the > corner. > > > ******************************************************************** > Embed Inc, Littleton Massachusetts, http://www.embedinc.com/products > (978) 742-9014. =A0Gold level PIC consultants since 2000. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .