Python

Standard serialisation protocols have gone AWOL. If you want to get the packet home with only 50 bytes of airtime, you need to enlist bitpacking.

I live in the boonies now, but thankfully we have some semblance of broadband with SpeedConnect. It is a WiMax setup with a modem that needs to be reset once a day (sometimes more if I am downloading ISO’s) and only connects at 10Mb Half-Duplex. Better than nothing I suppose. Originally I just succom to needing to wake-up, hit the head, and then hit the server room to pull the power. The geek in me couldn’t take it. Enter an extra Wemo Insight I had lying around. Initially I attempted to set up a rule that reset the switch (and thereby the modem) and coincide that with a cron script to bring down and back up the connection. ...

I am going to attempt once again to learn a programming language. I wanted to look at the pro’s and con’s of each language in my work enviroment, military/DOD usage: Python: Currently used in the Sidewinder Firewalls throughout the commands CITS uses the language extensively in the newer software deployments Actually a default install on many CITS Network Servers Ruby: Lots of support for web applications; where the military is going ...