With the advent of IBM BPM 7.5 I was invited to US for internal training in mid of June. So far Chicago was a connection point travelling to other places, this time I had one week to hang around. Most impressive part was that I could not easily predict short term weather conditions – one cannot see much of the sky covered by skyscrapers.Another immediate consequence of blocked sky was problem with maps to navigate through the city; GPS… Continue reading →
Half a year of regular HOX usage formed my opinion based on observations. Best part is that after series of hacks, tests and experiments I settled down with best setup I use for months now. If you are a geek replacing kernel or flashing ROM for a breakfast you may find it boring. Those of you however looking for one time customization for best results, read ahead. Software tuning Early users complained on limitations of HTC user interface. HTC… Continue reading →
Posted in Gadgets
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Tagged hox, htc one x
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Short deployment to Moscow stopped me from re-exploring the city. Last time it was the haze of burning woods, this time rainy and cold weather of Moscow’s early Autumn. I am not sure what was worse, the atmosphere or my inclination to bitching, using both the picture drawn is simple: I do not like this place. My grumblings start again with the oligarch-style hotel Metropol. This luxury is superficial as it manifests mostly by overpriced… Continue reading →
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Another pinpoint on the map of Arabic world. Neither as much fun and tourist oriented as Dubai, nor as fundamental as Riyadh, yet something else to discover. One of newest mosques, world fastest roller-coaster or beautiful Corniche coastline, just to mention few, and actually to mention all I could see deployed shortly in the capitol of UAE. Abu Dhabi, city on T-shaped island, is not as famous as Dubai, for sure. Great alternative for snowy… Continue reading →
Posted in Places, Skating
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It is just another online notebook you can find among millions over the internet. Here I share my different kinds of experience from completely different areas, starting from my favorite sports, through different hobbies and professional work, to anything that is worth of closer look. Since you are already here, you probably will find some of them interesting. If you want to contact me, send me an email to “andrzej.michalec A_T gmail… Continue reading →
Saudi Arabia is not popular target for tourism, especially Riyadh located just in the middle of dusty landscape of sand dunes. I got two flavors of my stay there: I could observe most orthodox enforcement of Islamic law and try to see whatever was worth to see and reachable in time and distance. For those of you who have no idea how interesting is alloy of modern country combined with medieval’s way of ruling by law of Sharia let me just… Continue reading →
Years ago I have been in electronics world, while never seriously touched digital techniques. I dropped electronics in favour of computer science and become sofware specialist. Now getting back to electronics I see the power in programming integrated circuit to control fixed electronics assembly around. I am really attracted by microcontrollers. I was quite ignorant before I started digging into μC world. Now, wherever I look, I see these tiny… Continue reading →
With the advent of 2nd revision of WLS experimental hardware I got nasty system freezes on ported firmware. As they happened always close to power cycling of probe section I suspected new ADC chip using I2C bus. Past experience with I2C drivers freezing system led to tests revealing bus corruption caused by non-deterministic behavior of slave during transient power rail states not isolated on time by the TXS0102 voltage shifter. ADCs: 18-bit on… Continue reading →
Posted in Electronics
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Tagged I2C, WLS
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It is easy to notice that for last ten months I was away from my blog. There is a growing reason for it: my little fellow. For first few months after birth of Jackie I could split time between family, work and hobby. His recent addiction to whatever dad hides from me effectively keeps me away from workbench. Using unusual constellation of a bit of energy and free time (day off), mum being out of home and little buddy taking a nap next room, I… Continue reading →
