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Hi All,
< rant mode > Bleedin', Elephanting, fake FTDI chips < / rant mode > been trying to test a mod I have made to a 'widget' to all the reel o' cable to work. The GPS module was playing up and I found out why fake FTDIs in the batch of these GPS units. Never saw any until now, heard about them though. Its not as if they are price gougers for the originals, I meant the cost of the fakes will be so close to the genuine it's not worth it, the only reason I can think of is the amount needed... ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) calm, calm, happy thoughts.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Watch That Windows Update: FTDI Drivers Are Killing Fake Chips | Hackaday[^]
"A reasonable company would go after the manufacturers of fake chips, not the consumers who are most likely unaware they have a fake chip"
Given that that is how they treat customers, they have found their way onto my list of companies that I will never do business with.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Know how you feel, but it's not my choice!
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As if the real FTDI chips weren't bad enough (or at least FTDI's software)  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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There appears to be a work-around. FTDI released a utility that fixes it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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 I will have search for that as a user we are not allowed to update the drivers (which can cause problems on newer stuff). Thanks! 
Any clues to a link as my Google Fu not working!
modified 2-Nov-16 14:36pm.
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glennPattonWorking wrote: Any clues to a link as my Google Fu not working!
You'll have to be more specific than "not working." 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Had a ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) working again...
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Isn't it strange how helpful companies can become after they've arrogantly treated customers like sh1t and it's turned into a public relations disaster?
Customers are such a pain. Heaven only knows why they don't like being treated like sh1t. They should just hand over money and STFU.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Never rob a music shop: the lute is terrible.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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But think of the Sax.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Sax and violins, is that all you think about? 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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In that case he can go ahead like Donald trumpet run for president.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I tried running for political office but they said I wasn't corrupt enough.
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I am not favoring any candidate in the upcoming election and no unicorns were injured while composing this post.
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New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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You're right about the sackbut if you piccolo quality one you should take some new courses as well.
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By any measure, that pun is terrible.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Oboe, here we go again. Stringing us along.
Perhaps you think I've harped on this tympani times, but how coda CP'ian let this go?
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Give it a rest!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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...that you have no idea whether the concept is viable, let alone how to implement the concept because it's probably never been done before?
Like this[^].
(Sorry for the clicky to my blog, but it's the easiest way to show you all a screenshot.)
Now, in some ways, I can't imagine this hasn't been tried (and probably abandoned) but I am definitely having fun exploring the marriage of not-really-flowcharting code diagramming with highly component-ized code.
The diagramming concepts (creating small "functional" components graphically represented in some way) should be applicable to just about any other language as well. I can already see how this could be used with Javascript, Python, etc., and with some interesting "intelligence" to glue the code together into applications. I even have a simple static page web-server that runs "written" in this style.
Marc
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 how & why?
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glennPattonWorking wrote: how & why?
Because we say that an application is made of smaller "building blocks" of code, but is that just a cute saying, or can it be actually done without creating a lobotomized language?
And how, well, this is why I created FlowSharp, because I wanted a playground for this idea. Leveraging SharpDevelop's editor (I also have a Scintilla plug-in, but it doesn't have Intellisense) and some other stuff, a lot of the pieces just needed to be glued together.
Marc
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Reminded me of Lego Mindstorms; heard a professor once claim that we'd not be programming in a language, but in those blocks by the year 2012.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: heard a professor once claim that we'd not be programming in a language, but in those blocks by the year 2012.
Yes, exactly, and I've been waiting and waiting...
Marc
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I've seen this sort of thing before, 30+ years ago, in the 80's. Borland had something 20+ years ago in the 90's. Microsoft, I believe, tried something like that about 10 years later. It was a grand idea but didn't go anywhere. It might today given different toolsets and performance gains and the right execution.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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