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	<title>nerd1951.com</title>
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	<description>Embedded Systems Software, Computer Networking and Geeky Fun</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Big Website Changes Coming</title>
		<link>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=199</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Activity on nerd1951.com has been little to none for the last several months (I have a talent for stating the obvious).  But his is about to change.  nerd1951.com will be getting a complete make-over soon.
My interests have moved on from computer networking in embedded system to multi-media and embedded systems.  It seems that a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The problem is not in our tools but in ourselves</title>
		<link>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=198</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nerd1951.com/?p=198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s face it.  Software design falls into two extremes in the majority of software development organizations.  Either it is hardly done at all or it is done to the point of dimensioning returns.  You know I’m talking about you, most of you anyway.
The &#8220;hardly done at all&#8221; camp usually sees little value in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zipcar&#8217;s technology</title>
		<link>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=189</link>
		<comments>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=189#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harvey.sugar</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Car Free Insanity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nerd1951.com/?p=189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
When a system is well designed you can use it without even realizing the complexity of the technology behind it.  This is true of the Zipcar car sharing service.
For those of you who are not familiar with the service, Zipcar allows you to rent cars by the hour or the day.  In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something totally different</title>
		<link>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=188</link>
		<comments>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=188#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Nerds like us don&#8217;t get much love but obviously someone loves nerds.  If you have a special friend that likes Hello Kitty she might like this.
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		<title>Intel buys WindRiver</title>
		<link>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=187</link>
		<comments>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=187#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nerd1951.com/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard the news by now that Intel has purchased WindRiver, one of the largest providers of Real Time Operating Systems and embedded systems development tools.
Intel&#8217;s purchase of WindRiver for 884 million dollars is the end of VxWorks as a viable embedded RTOS.  Actually VxWorks has been losing ground in the embedded systems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Bovine Resources Department</title>
		<link>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=186</link>
		<comments>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=186#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nerd1951.com/?p=186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OK – this is not technical in any way – just a pure rant.
When did we go from being people to being resources?  Was it when everyone started using Microsoft Project?  I hate seeing my name listed under “resources”.I never see anything but people listed on a project as resources.  I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Linux select() function for embedded systems</title>
		<link>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=185</link>
		<comments>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=185#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago I gave a presentation at the Embedded Systems Conference about implementing communications protocols in C++.  One of the main themes in my talk was avoiding context switch because of its high cost.  This is especially important in embedded Linux.  The computational costs for context switching are high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Processor price vs. cost</title>
		<link>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=184</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harvey.sugar</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nerd1951.com/?p=184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ There can be a big difference between the cost of choosing a processor or micro-controller and its price.  That might sound counterintuitive but the total cost of using a particular processor includes much more than its piece-price.  These additional costs include the cost of development tools, the RTOS if you are using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picky-Picky C/C++ Style Conventions: postscript</title>
		<link>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=183</link>
		<comments>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=183#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I goofed yesterday on one of the code examples as one reader, Michael, pointed out.  I was trying to show how to define a hardware register as a cosnt pointer to volatile data and I wrote:
static const uint8_t* volatile dataOut = 0x20000010;
which is a volatile pointer to const data.  This may be useful in some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picky-Picky C/C++ Style Conventions</title>
		<link>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=182</link>
		<comments>http://nerd1951.com/old-blog/?p=182#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harvey.sugar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By convention, at this point in time you can assume that a char in C is 8 bits, an int or a long is 32 bits and a short is 16 bits but not always.  That can be a problem in embedded system programming since we often need to know the exact size of [...]]]></description>
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