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		<title>Where have all the posts gone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like I&#8217;ve gotten busy lately and neglected Hotsolder. Not exactly. You know a lot of my postings relate to embedded systems. You might also know that I have a long history with Dr. Dobb&#8217;s Journal as an author, columnist, and editor. Well, I&#8217;ve recently started blogging about embedded systems on the Dr. Dobb&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Server Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The server that hosts Hotsolder (and AWCE and several other related sites) was due for a major overhaul and it got it. May still be some glitches here and there so either bear with us or report any problems you are having.
Happy New Year!
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		<title>Velleman PCS500 Oscilloscope under Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like my Velleman PCS500. Its not perfect, but it does a good job and has been my &#8220;bench scope&#8221; for awhile now edging out my old faithful Tek scope for all but the most demanding jobs. However, there are two things I definitely don&#8217;t like about it. It uses a parallel port which many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hotsolder.com/2009/12/velleman-pcs500-oscilloscope-under-linux.html</link>
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		<title>Kubuntu KDE4 Toolbar Icons for KDE3 Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed that a few programs (like kpdf, piklab, pikloops, etc.) were not showing icons in their toolbars. The common element seemed to be that they were all KDE3 programs and I was using KDE4. But that should work.
It took a little detective work, but here&#8217;s the solution: I had changed theme files and apparently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hotsolder.com/2009/12/kubuntu-kde4-toolbar-icons-for-kde3-programs.html</link>
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		<title>Linux Multimonitor Madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m addicted to having two monitors. It drives me crazy to go back to just one. Well yesterday one of my 19&#8243; panels went white and stayed that way. Luckily with black Friday sales going on I was able to replace it on the cheap. However, most monitors these days are widescreen, so it takes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One-Der the 32-bit 1 instruction CPU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[.!.
I&#8217;ve talked a bit about One-Der my 32-bit CPU project before. It finally has seen the light of day.
Here&#8217;s the article in DDJ: http://www.ddj.com/embedded/221800122?pgno=1
And some more info: http://www.awce.com/classroom/course/view.php?id=11
And it got slashdotted!
Hands on with One-DEr

Here&#8217;s the simulator in action (actually the simulator has had a face lift and has more verbose commands and better output now):

Coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graphing CPU Temperatures in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently changed motherboards and as always mounting the fan and heatsink on the CPU makes me feel stupid. I have a large non-stock cooler and it is always a struggle to make it fit with all the other things motherboard makers stuff near the CPU these days. After some busted knuckles, I thought I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hotsolder.com/2009/07/graphing-cpu-temperatures-in-linux.html</link>
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		<title>Setting Input Audio for VirtualBox (Linux)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you use VirtualBox to run things (like Windows) under Linux you know that its pretty capable. It can even map sound from the guest OS to the Linux ALSA system. However, the GUI only provides a way to use the same input and output device on the host OS. That&#8217;s a problem for me. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hotsolder.com/2009/04/setting-input-audio-for-virtualbox-linux.html</link>
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		<title>The Finacial Calculator Every Engineer Wants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve owned a good many HP calculators in my day and still prefer my venerable HP41C over the many more modern calculators I own.  But I&#8217;m ready to buy an HP 20b Financial calculator. Why do I want a financial calculator? I don&#8217;t.
It turns out though that HP has released the entire development package for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hotsolder.com/2009/01/the-finacial-calculator-every-engineer-wants.html</link>
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		<title>I/O Scheduling Eleveator and Gambas</title>
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I recently had to work with some very large files under Kubuntu 8.10 and found that when I was decompressing or copying these large files the system would become sluggish. Keep in mind this is with dual 3Ghz AMD cores and 4GB of RAM. The CPU load was almost nothing, but for some reason the [...]]]></description>
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