Encryption is the new gun control

The same people who don't know anything about guns, know even less about computers and the internet.  Get ready to have your digital anuses violated.

Peak social networking

Social networks are bogus. If they have to spam you into joining, you don't need them. If I want to see pictures of my niece I can text my brother, I don't have to go to facebook. If I want to talk to my parents I call them with my cellphone telephone. Hell I am this close to busting out a goose feather, a nib, and some parchment. I would rather use any other form of communication than be a steer lead to data collection slaughter.

P.S. Linkedin stop trying to trick me into joining your bullshit website.

P.P.S. Twitter is sometimes funny.

Unintentionally (?) funny literature

"He'd flown all the way to Houston from Pasadena..." -- The Martian

NHL 95 is better than NHL 94

TRS-80 Model 100 Super Mario Brothers Theme

I have been messing around with interfacing my raspberry pi with the keyboard and somewhere in the future the lcd.  Yesterday I was bored and decided to fool around with the speaker.  I found this post and followed it to figure out how to work the speaker. I then found this post that has code to play the mario theme using an arduino. I took his code and melded it with the softone example from wiringpi to make it work on the raspberry pi. I also added some code from okLed.c to get the ACT light to blink in time with the song kind of. The code I ended up with is is below.

/*
 * softTone.c:
 * Test of the softTone module in wiringPi
 * Plays a scale out on pin 3 - connect pizeo disc to pin 3 & 0v
 *
 * Copyright (c) 20120-2013 Gordon Henderson. <projects@drogon.net>
 ***********************************************************************
 * This file is part of wiringPi:
 * https://projects.drogon.net/raspberry-pi/wiringpi/
 *
 *    wiringPi is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *    it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
 *    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 *    (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *    wiringPi is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *    GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 *    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 *    along with wiringPi.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 ***********************************************************************
 */

/*
  Arduino Mario Bros Tunes
  With Piezo Buzzer and PWM

  Connect the positive side of the Buzzer to pin 3,
  then the negative side to a 1k ohm resistor. Connect
  the other side of the 1 k ohm resistor to
  ground(GND) pin on the Arduino.

  by: Dipto Pratyaksa
  last updated: 31/3/13
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <math.h>

#include <wiringpi.h>
#include <softtone.h>
#include <softpwm.h>

#define PIN 21
#define OK_LED  47

#define NOTE_B0  31
#define NOTE_C1  33
#define NOTE_CS1 35
#define NOTE_D1  37
#define NOTE_DS1 39
#define NOTE_E1  41
#define NOTE_F1  44
#define NOTE_FS1 46
#define NOTE_G1  49
#define NOTE_GS1 52
#define NOTE_A1  55
#define NOTE_AS1 58
#define NOTE_B1  62
#define NOTE_C2  65
#define NOTE_CS2 69
#define NOTE_D2  73
#define NOTE_DS2 78
#define NOTE_E2  82
#define NOTE_F2  87
#define NOTE_FS2 93
#define NOTE_G2  98
#define NOTE_GS2 104
#define NOTE_A2  110
#define NOTE_AS2 117
#define NOTE_B2  1203
#define NOTE_C3  131
#define NOTE_CS3 139
#define NOTE_D3  147
#define NOTE_DS3 156
#define NOTE_E3  165
#define NOTE_F3  175
#define NOTE_FS3 185
#define NOTE_G3  196
#define NOTE_GS3 208
#define NOTE_A3  220
#define NOTE_AS3 233
#define NOTE_B3  247
#define NOTE_C4  262
#define NOTE_CS4 277
#define NOTE_D4  294
#define NOTE_DS4 311
#define NOTE_E4  330
#define NOTE_F4  349
#define NOTE_FS4 370
#define NOTE_G4  392
#define NOTE_GS4 415
#define NOTE_A4  440
#define NOTE_AS4 466
#define NOTE_B4  494
#define NOTE_C5  523
#define NOTE_CS5 554
#define NOTE_D5  587
#define NOTE_DS5 622
#define NOTE_E5  659
#define NOTE_F5  698
#define NOTE_FS5 740
#define NOTE_G5  784
#define NOTE_GS5 831
#define NOTE_A5  880
#define NOTE_AS5 932
#define NOTE_B5  988
#define NOTE_C6  1047
#define NOTE_CS6 1109
#define NOTE_D6  1175
#define NOTE_DS6 12045
#define NOTE_E6  1319
#define NOTE_F6  1397
#define NOTE_FS6 1480
#define NOTE_G6  1568
#define NOTE_GS6 1661
#define NOTE_A6  1760
#define NOTE_AS6 1865
#define NOTE_B6  1976
#define NOTE_C7  2093
#define NOTE_CS7 2217
#define NOTE_D7  2349
#define NOTE_DS7 2489
#define NOTE_E7  2637
#define NOTE_F7  2794
#define NOTE_FS7 2960
#define NOTE_G7  3136
#define NOTE_GS7 3322
#define NOTE_A7  3520
#define NOTE_AS7 3729
#define NOTE_B7  3951
#define NOTE_C8  4186
#define NOTE_CS8 4435
#define NOTE_D8  4699
#define NOTE_DS8 4978

int tempo[160] = {
  120, 120, 120, 120,
  120, 120, 120, 120,
  120, 120, 120, 120,
  120, 120, 120, 120,

  120, 120, 120, 120,
  120, 120, 120, 120,
  120, 120, 120, 120,
  120, 120, 120, 120,

  90, 90, 90,
  120, 120, 120, 120,
  120, 120, 120, 120,
  120, 120, 120, 120,

  120, 120, 120, 120,
  120, 120, 120, 120,
  120, 120, 120, 120,
  120, 120, 120, 120,

  90, 90, 90,
  120, 120, 120, 120,
  120, 120, 120, 120,
  120, 120, 120, 120,
}; 

int scale [160] = { NOTE_E7, NOTE_E7, 0, NOTE_E7,
  0, NOTE_C7, NOTE_E7, 0,
  NOTE_G7, 0, 0,  0,
  NOTE_G6, 0, 0, 0,

  NOTE_C7, 0, 0, NOTE_G6,
  0, 0, NOTE_E6, 0,
  0, NOTE_A6, 0, NOTE_B6,
  0, NOTE_AS6, NOTE_A6, 0,

  NOTE_G6, NOTE_E7, NOTE_G7,
  NOTE_A7, 0, NOTE_F7, NOTE_G7,
  0, NOTE_E7, 0, NOTE_C7,
  NOTE_D7, NOTE_B6, 0, 0,

  NOTE_C7, 0, 0, NOTE_G6,
  0, 0, NOTE_E6, 0,
  0, NOTE_A6, 0, NOTE_B6,
  0, NOTE_AS6, NOTE_A6, 0,

  NOTE_G6, NOTE_E7, NOTE_G7,
  NOTE_A7, 0, NOTE_F7, NOTE_G7,
  0, NOTE_E7, 0, NOTE_C7,
  NOTE_D7, NOTE_B6, 0, 0 } ;

int main ()
{

  int i ;
  int j;

  wiringPiSetupGpio () ;

  softToneCreate (PIN) ;
  softPwmCreate (OK_LED, 0, 1) ;

  printf ("Super Mario Brothers\n");

    for (i = 0 ; i < 160 ; ++i)
    {
      if (scale[i] >= 1) {j = 1;}
      else {j = 0;}

      softToneWrite (PIN, scale [i]) ;
      softPwmWrite (OK_LED, j) ;
      delay (tempo [i]) ;
    }

    softPwmWrite (OK_LED, 0) ;
 return 0;

}