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Antenna Design and Fabrication

Coax

Do it yourself Antennas

Vertical Colinear Omni

Sector antennas

Biquad Antennas

Sector Antennas

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Camellia Kidney Beans

Red kidney beans

Ingredients

  • 1 pound red kidney beans
  • 1/2 pound ham
  • water
  • 1 onion
  • 1 toe garlic – chopped
  • 2 Tablespoons  celery chopped
  • 2 Tablespoons parsley chopped
  • 1 bay leaf
  • salt
  • olive oil

Instructions

  1. Soak beans over night
  2. Saute – Onions, garlic, parsley, celery in olive oil.  A little caramelization adds to flavor
  3. add sauteed items to beans and top out with water
  4. add bay leaf
  5. add cubed ham
  6. add salt to taste
  7. pressure cook for 15 minutes
  8. remove top and do a 1/2 hour boil down to thicken the broth

serve with rice.

Notes: 

  1. I used Carmellia brand red kidney beans and the bean texture was perfect.  I will later do the same recipe with a different brand to check if the results are as good.   First batch turned out very good.
By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Localization Internationalization Multiple Language Software Interface

from:  Internationalization_and_localization

Coding practice

The current prevailing practice is for applications to place text in resource strings which are loaded during program execution as needed. These strings, stored in resource files, are relatively easy to translate. Programs are often built to reference resource libraries depending on the selected locale data. One software library that aids this is gettext.

Thus to get an application to support multiple languages one would design the application to select the relevant language resource file at runtime. Resource files are translated to the required languages. This method tends to be application-specific and, at best, vendor-specific. The code required to manage date entry verification and many other locale-sensitive data types also must support differing locale requirements. Modern development systems and operating systems include sophisticated libraries for international support of these types.

Video on the internationalization process:   Lingoport's Globalyzer   Is a tool that helps with internationalization.  This video shows what they are watching in order to be sensitive to function format, exceptions etc.  It is useful to watch even if you are not going to use them.

How to Translate With GetText PO and POT Files    These are standardized for use with Poedit   wikipedia: Poedit   ( Poedit was developed with WxWidgets – a cross platform GUI C libraries )

  • POT – Portable Object Template. This is the file that you get when you extract texts from the application. Normally, you send this file to your translators.
  • PO – Portable Object. This is the file that you receive back from the translators. It’s a text file that includes the original texts and the translations.
  • MO – Machine Object. The MO file includes the exact same contents as PO file. The two files differ in their format. While a PO file is a text file and is easy for humans to read, MO files are compiled and are easy for computers to read. Your web server will use the MO file to display the translations.
By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Smart Feller has fun with words

Rev 3

 I'm a tree feller who's quite a smart feller

 I fell more trees than three smart fellers      

 

 When I am around all feller fell smart

 Yes I fell more smart than any tree feller

 

  My girlfriend fell for a smart feller.  

  her heart felled for the best of smart feller

  I'm really lucky I fell smart  

  When she fell smarted but I'm the feller who felt smart   

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Sun Virtual Box

Sun Virtual Box allows you to run multiple OS's at the same time and allows them to be fused.  Run WinXP, Ubuntu and Mac OS's at the same time, copy and paste between them and share files.

Hardware – What I have and what I need

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Feijoada Style Black Beans

Ingredients

  • Black beans
  • Onion
  • Green pepper
  • Garlic
  • 4 bay leaves
  • Oregano – just a little
  • Cinamon – rounded table spoon
  • Pork loin back ribs – smoked ribs if you have them!  ( unfortunately here in USA I do not )
  • Olive oil
  • Salt

Instructions

  1. let the beans soak over night
  2. chop up everything and mix with beans – except for pork  and salt !  Leave that aside until taste tests are done
  3. level up with water in your pressure cooker – should cover everything plus a little more to account for when you add the port ribs
  4. salt to taste.  ( remember its easy to keep adding until you have gone too far.  Look for the flavor in the subconscious part of your brain
  5. cut up the ribs and add
  6. seal up your pressure cooker – get it whistling and then turn it down to minimum that will still lift your jiggler – Cook for about 18 minutes thus
  7. once the 18 minutes are up do the natural release and open up the pot.
  8. Put the pot back on the stove and simmer / low bubble the pot for another 1/2 hour at least to thicken up the broth.  This is important.  You will see why with sufficient experimentation
By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

BlackBerry 7290 Software and Firmware Links

Research Topic Pages

Notes

Research Thread

Desktop Software

…….more

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago