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Beware of these 6 inconsistent Linux commands, especially if you use another OS

Some commands don’t always behave the same.
IEEE

Command Filter Adaptive Power Capture Control Based on Fuzzy Rules Emulated Networks for Variable Speed Wind Turbines With Flexible Shaft

Abstract: This paper considers the power capture control problem of variable-speed wind turbine (VSWT) systems with flexible shaft. The control objective is to optimize the capture of wind energy by ...
IEEE

A Coupled Variable Input LCG Method and its VLSI Architecture for Pseudorandom Bit Generation

Abstract: The dual-coupled-linear congruential generator (LCG) (dual-CLCG) is a secure pseudorandom bit gene-rator (PRBG) method among various linear feedback shift register (LFSR), LCG, and ...
GitHub

Need a variable for workspace ID & for user OSC commands

It would be great to be able to get the workspace ID in to a variable. And also to ba able to make user OSC messages, with or without arguments. There are so many features of Qlab 5 accessible via OSC ...
GitHub

No way to distinguish between ParseArgument invoked for user-supplied input and default value

When using an option that has a custom parser with isDefault set to true, the custom parser cannot distinguish between being invoked to provide a default value and being invoked to parse input that ...
PC Magazine

Hands On With Amazon's New Echo Dot, Plus, Input, and More

SEATTLE—Amazon's new Echo Dot and Echo Plus are incremental upgrades that bring these models more in-line with the design of their larger counterpart. Instead of bare plastic or metal cylinders, the ...
Network World

10 Unix commands every Mac and Linux user should know

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...