ON 20030501@12:22:56 AM at page: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/quotes.htm JMN-EFP-786 James Newton Says * Take One:
Two engineering students were walking across campus when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?"
The second engineer replied, "Well, Iwaswalking along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike.
She threw the bike to the ground, took off all herclothes and said, "Take what you want."
The second engineer nodded approvingly, "Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fitted."

* Take Two
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

* Take Three
A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers.
The engineer fumed, "What's with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!"
The doctor chimed in,"I don't know, but I've never seen Such ineptitude!"
The pastor said,"Hey, here comes the green keeper. Let's have a word with him." "Hey George. Say, what's with that groupahead of us?
They're rather slow, aren't they?" The green keeper replied, "Oh, yes,that's a group of blind fire fighters.
They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free."
The group was silent for a moment. The pastor said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight."
The doctor said, "Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them.
" The engineer said, "Why can't they play at night?"

* Take Four
There was an engineer who had an exceptional gift for fixing all things mechanical.
After serving his company loyally for over 30 years, he happily retired.
Several years later the company contacted him regarding a seemingly impossible problem they were having with one of their multi-million dollar machines.
They had tried everything and everyone else to get the machine to work but to no avail.
In desperation, they called on the retired engineer who had solved so many of their problems in the past.
The engineer reluctantly took the challenge. He spent a day studying the huge machine.
At the end of the day, he marked a small "x" in chalk on a particular component of the machine and stated, This is where your problem is".
The part was replaced and the machine worked perfectly again.
The company then received a bill for $50,000 from the engineer for his service.
They demanded an itemized accounting of his charges.
The engineer responded briefly:
One chalk mark- $1.00
Knowing where to put it......................$49,999.00

* Take Five
Q. What is the difference between Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers?
A. Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.

* Take Six
The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?"
The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"

* Take Seven
Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

* Take Eight
An architect, an artist and an engineer were discussing whether it was better to spend time with the wife or a mistress.
The architect saidheenjoyed time with his wife, building a solid foundation for an enduring relationship.
The artist said he enjoyed time with his mistress, because of the passion and mystery he found there.
The engineer said, "I like both."
"Both?"
Engineer:"Yeah. If you have a wife and a mistress, they will each assume you are spending time with the other woman, and you can go to the office and get some work done." ON 20030519@11:48:38 AM at page: http://www.piclist.com/techref/servfail.htm JMN-EFP-786 James Newton edited the page. Difference: http://www.piclist.com/techref/diff.asp?url=H:\techref\servfail.htm&version=13 ON 20030521@12:14:52 AM at page: http://massmind.org/techref/pcbcads.htm DAV-MP-E62a David A Cary I have agreed to maintain this page. ON 20030521@12:19:05 AM at page: http://massmind.org/techref/pcbcads.htm DAV-MP-E62a David A Cary edited the page. Difference: http://massmind.org/techref/diff.asp?url=H:\techref\pcbcads.htm&version=8 ON 20030523@11:31:25 PM at page: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/hackers.htm JMN-EFP-786 James Newton edited the page. Difference: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/diff.asp?url=H:\techref\hackers.htm&version=0 ON 20030523@11:33:58 PM at page: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/people.htm JMN-EFP-786 James Newton Says http://techref.massmind.org/techref/Richard Stallman Richard Stallman ON 20030523@11:34:36 PM at page: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/people.htm JMN-EFP-786 James Newton Says http://techref.massmind.org/techref/richardstallman.htm Richard Stallman ON 20030523@11:36:35 PM at page: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/richardstallman.htm JMN-EFP-786 James Newton Says There are other people with ethics and others who were willing to sacrifice things for the ideal of sharing, but no one else seems to have understood or defended the pure joy of hacking code with other people they way he has. "Hacking" may not be the best word here, because it gets used as many ways as the F word does these days, but there is an intense joy that some people feel in looking over someone else's code and seeing how to improve it a bit, then turn it back out to the world and find that someone else can teach them a new trick by improving it even more, and so on. It is not a competition or a contest, not a show or a stage. For many, it includes elements of "belonging" , "faith" , "growth" and "happiness." A church choir or a chain gang. Family. Even God and country.

The sense of "community" that Richard Stallman often speaks of (especially his first one at MIT) is critical to many of us and may just be our only hope for the continued growth of the human animal. When (if) automation eliminates hunger and population control eventually settles our instinct to reproduce, what else will we find to strive for? If we survive to that point, we may kill each other out of boredom if we continue to compete for competitions sake and work for individual rather than common gain.

Richard Stallman will always be a hero to many because despite (or because of) his personality and sometimes hygiene ;o), he was able to show us that we can foster and grow this community as needed. Not to just be dependant on finding it, but also protect it and create it for ourselves just by refusing to sell out.

Linus Torvalds has been highlighted by those who value good leadership and management. People skills. Social engineering. Charisma. All good, and thank you Linus, but RS should be studied more often by people interested in hackers exactly because he does not exude those things, but still has the community part of the hackers world shining brightly at his core. He is a beacon to what we, the hacker community, really need and are; without distracting us into thinking that anything else is necessary.

I may have Aspergers disorder or B.O. but I don't need to be LT to be full of joy, to be a force, to be a part of this community. ON 20030524@10:23:26 AM at page: http://techref.massmind.orgindex.htm JMN-EFP-786 James Newton removed post 37765.3680324074 |Delete 'dh23111@msn.com asks:

I do not understand the Z180 mmu. If anyone could explane how to use it with maybe asy example, that would be great. Say I want to use address A20. what do I need to do?

Thanks Dave Holt. dh23111@msn.com
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nice comparison and contrast of several CPUs (AVR, PIC, HC11, etc.) here. ON 20030531@2:09:27 PM at page: http://massmind.org/techref/lcds.htm DAV-MP-E62a David A Cary Says http://ee.cleversoul.com/lcd_project.html LCD Project: connect the LCD to the PC printer port; schematic and lots of source code.
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