Changing Xen's choice of console

Just want to note another writeup on how to change the Xen console. It picks the serial line by default; if you need that serial line, this makes it unavailble. The Xen manual is available, but an example is worth a lot more!

Back to electronics

I needed a change of hobby again, and pulled out all my electronics stuff. My first go-around is to bread-board a basic W65C02 + SRAM + EEPROM + LCD together. Once I cleared up my confusion about BE ("bus enable" has nothing to do with the CPU wanting the bus!) and got the contrast setup correctly for the LCD, it all worked fine and dandy up to 4MHz.

So, I (not so intelligently) thought that interfacing a joystick would be pretty simple. Not quite -- for one, it has analog to read, and I haven't done that yet. And two, I'd like to make a "device" to manage the joystick but all I have are PIC microcontrollers... so I have timing and software to deal with. We'll see where it goes from there.

Oh well, it's interesting and most definitely a challenge!

Somewhere over the rainbow!!

Upgrading again

It's been a few years, and with MythTV having been shut down for a number of months, I figure this is the best time to upgrade my Linux server. I've got an old version of Fedora Core that I'll upgrade... and, typically, that is much easier if I back up data. Myth can be a bit touchy and I haven't done anything with it for quite a while. Wish me luck!

Essay...

There is always someone who says something well. Here's one of those.

Mom (continued)

My mother passed away on April 18th, at 5:30pm. My brother and I were walking her dog when we were called back to the house.

She had suffered so much and had been grieving off and on for two months that I was just able to sit next to mom, hold her hand, and say my good-bye's.

All I can say is that she will be missed.

Mom

In early February, my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

We knew that something was up since the summer (2006) when her stomach started bothering her and she stopped eating as much as she needed. At one point, my wife pointed out how much weight my mom had lost, and then one day I noticed.

The good news (if there is any) is that she has 6-12 months. She is currently undergoing chemotherapy in the hopes her symptoms can be held in check for a while. Chemo is brutal on my mom and she frequently has a few rotten days after the treatments. Since I am two blocks away, I am trying to spend as much time as possible with her. Both to help out, and to remember. My mom's pretty independent and definitely doesn't want to be babied.

We have discovered that her neighbors are really good neighbors. That's always a plus. My mother-in-law has been very helpful too, assisting with appointments (since my mom is not allowed to drive any more).

At any rate, my usual sporadic posting activity will be even more sporadic...

Hah, correction

As I ponder a more serious post, I noticed that the GNO/ME post mentions that GNO supports up to 32 "processors". That should, of course, be processes.