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Settling into FL

Posted on 22nd Dec 2021

Yes holidays, means family and mine are arriving, but there is still down time. Good time to revamp the website - check Get CAGE code updated -- in process got a new D&B number -- check Merry Christmas, Happy New Year One thing that triggered this was all the emails from "services" w...

Windows fixed

Windows fixed

Posted on 20th Dec 2021

Back in November one of our users reported Windows would not run our installers which use NSIS, a very popular installer. Well seems like someone in Redmond got around to fixing this oversight. So once you pass the Run Anyway screen our installers once again run fine. We made no changes.

Websites r Us

Websites r Us

Posted on 17th Dec 2021

While it really isn't my business, once I had a few themes setup for me on the Grav CMS, building a new site is pretty easy. So for some of the volunteer organizations I am a member of, I became the webmaster (basically a cut and paste kind of guy)

Latest Win10 breaks NSIS installers

Latest Win10 breaks NSIS installers

Posted on 3rd Nov 2021

Got a call from an IT person who was installing setupBASIC for use by engineers in his company. He reported that the setupBASIC could not be run when double clicked on from the Downloads directory, or anywhere else for that matter. Even if you right click and Run as Administrator. So for now you have download setupBASIC.exe, Run cmd.exe as an Administrator, then cd to the \users\----\Downloads, and type in setupBASIC to run from the command line.

Surviving the chip shortage

Surviving the chip shortage

Posted on 21st Oct 2021

Coridium LLC in Florida is up and running, a new location, lots more humid. But a shipment of SuperPRO / LPC1756s came in this week. This should carry us through the rest of the year. While there are no LPC1756s in stock at the big vendors, and none expected till next March, one of our OEM custom...

Looking into PC-104

Looking into PC-104

Posted on 15th Oct 2021

The PC-104 standard though getting old, still has an active presence in industrial control. ARM micro-controllers continue to get faster and more powerful with speeds up to 600 MHz and 1MB of on chip memory. We've been asked to look into the possibility of replacing some of the low end x86 boards with processors such as the RT1062.