During a recent conversation with another Dave he pointed me at the Facebook group “No, you’re not a photographer, you just own a camera” (update May 2011: this no longer exists).
Whilst I don’t agree with most of the comments on there (they are generally rude and unhelpful) it does raise an interesting point: How high the bar should be set for whether you are really a photographer or not?
This post looks at what is needed to get a serial connectiong working with BoostC using a PIC with a hardware USART. A later post will cover the BoostC software implementation, when I have finished figuring it out.
By the end of this post there will be a PIC uC talking to Hyperterminal on the PC using less than 50 lines of code.
In a previous message I spoke about training dspam automatically. The script I posted there works, but it’s not brilliant so I started looking for other ways of achieving spam training from the client.
Recently I have installed and configured dspam on my mailserver. It seems to work nicely but needs occasional training. I wanted to integrate this with Thunderbird so that users could automatically train dspam from their mail client.