Well the brief CV that you have presented it seems that you haven't done a lot of OO in your programming life - it maybe a good thing to learn as OO is a beast it is still one of the best programming paradigm available today.
Don't worry about the programming lanaguage - as you have learnt so many new langauage in the pass I don't think you have problems picking new things up - have a look at C# and Java - they are the "same" aren't they;-p
I say: Operating Systems and Programming Languages come and go, but good Software Engineering and technical understanding never dies. I mean file operation is the same principles in Unix, Windows, "Java", BillGatesMustDie OS (I make it up) - the difference is really whether they call it new File("hello").open() or open("hello", READ_ONLY).
Well, I work in a company that builds JVM (no names, no packdrill as my high school teacher said, but here is the URL reversed: avaj/moc.mbi.www) and I have to agree that Java is not as horrible as you think. We spend millions on having one of the best JIT compiler around and our JVM is used in pretty much anything you can imagine! It does scale well with MP machines, and I think certain vendor's VM aren't as optimising as it should be;-p
I agree that Swing is SLOWWWWW because it draws each component in Java instead of natively, but why don't you give SWT (www.eclipse.org) a try? It use native components and work on quite a few platform...
If you want fairly good Chinese support I think you can try Turbolinux 7 - they are bigger then Redhat in China because they have a much better chinese input method support and stuff - and I have tried it myself! You can switch between chinese and english just like that!
Well in fact what happened was that DEC sued Intel for "stealing" Alpha technology at around 1995 for their Pentium processor and they settle out of court - DEC sold it's microelectronic division (including networking chips, StrongARM excluding Alpha, and all DEC fabs) to Intel as part of the settlement and of course a big cheque.
Well, I don't live in US but after reading all those DMCA related news last few days I am beginning to getting concern - it seems to me that big US Corpration (even though I work for one;-p) is beignning to *ABUSE* DMCA as a way to close down anything that they don't see fit - Okay I can understand why they want to shut down Advance Flash Linker, but why bnetd? Can't those corp. america sees that these initiative will help them further their market share? Can't they see this is a healthy competition? Seems like the World is beginning to run by commerical interest instead of in the interest of the advancement of technology - What next? Micrsoft shuts down WINE project because it helps decoding Window's secret? This is getting stupid you know....
Can one still host CVS server for bnetd outside US and still being legal? Maybe we should run a sourceforge like service in HongKong or something like that;-p Is there anything I can do, not being a US citizen? I know UK (where I live and work) is thinking of a DMCA equivalent - maybe it is time I have a chat with my MP.....
Hmmm... It use AMD 761 chipset - so does that means if someone really wanted to they can hack the KT266A, etc and make these motherboard to work with both Alpha and Athlon?! I bet if you have the right socket on the motherboard and the right BIOS you can just swap the CPU in and you have a cheap and cheerful Alpha system......
Shame that it has come too late. Long live Athlon!
Well, while I was doing my final year project at Department Of Computing, Imperial College London we have the actual card made by Chinese University of HK. Bascially it is just a matter of having a SDRAM contoller "programmed" onto the FPGA, and wired correctly(it uses Xilinx Virtex series of FPGA, and Xilinx has implemented a SDRAM controller on it - see their tech notes - their sites is down when I write this). Having done my project with FPGAs, I would say the problem with this thing is that it is very fiddly to program the thing - it requires the understanding of software as well as hardware. I also agreed with some comments above that it lacks interrupts on SDRAM bus - therefore it is even more difficult to program the card.
Anyway, PCI FPGA cards has always been available, and they are hugely expansive. But they are getting down in price. One of the problem of FPGA is that the speed of the chips are slow (depends on the complexity of the circuit, you can only clock it to around 1Ghz for very simple cores, lot slower for complex circuit) so consider the speed of microprocessor it is not worthwhile to use them in normal computer systems - but a new niche is open up in embedded market.
Notice the name of the university is right! Chinese name of the university suggested that the "Chinese" in the university name is actually means Chinese language, not China the country.
Well, I have been a long time user with AMD CPUS since the days of K6 - I have built quite a few Athlons and I did manage to fried a Athlon 750 by not installing the heatsink properly - and the dealer in Hong Kong happily replace it (and give me a Athlon 850 wheepppy) I do agree with a lot of people that AMD processor aren't as strong in terms of installation - but then aren't we all suppose to handle our toy carefully? I mean would you drive your Porsche like a car you stolen (hmm.. actually people do!;-p)
I also have to agree with people that Tom is rather bias at times but then hey like CNN aren't?! Oh well, I will still recommend AMD CPU to everyone - except I will make sure that their CPU cooling solution (what a technical word!) is chosen wisely!
Oh well, I can still remember the excitment when Alpha was announced in around 1992. I was then 14 and was hoping by the turn of the century I will have one of these lovely chip running on my desk... It is stil my dream to own an Alpha.
I will bring some flowers to the grave, and hope someone out there come up with something better (come on AMD!)soon or we are having stuck with that Itanium Beast (having work with it last summer....)
I have been working in IBM Java Tech Centre (http://developers.ibm.com/java this summer (as an intern) with an Intel Itanium box developing the Java VM for IA64.
Linux is ready for IA64 - by the time I left the compiler and OS is relatively stable enough to compile most things. Though Intel still has a few things it need to iron out in the hardware........
Most stuff in fact compile directly - I used turbolinux frontier ia64 (http://frontier.turbolinux.com/ia64 - they got helixcode and stuff working! There is a porting guide on that website as well and those of you who have an opensource project on sourceforge should be able to use the sample hardware to try to recompile and test your software.
IBM is really big about Itanium - wait for more and more announcement;-p
Well, I do invlove in the HKLUG and know the guys out there - bascially being really materialistic out there we have trouble finding companies sponsoring us events and things - they cannot believe there is such "Free" things in life. So we have to charge a bit of membership fee and things, just to give us top up and things, and we will send members CDs and stuff.. I personally have put a lot of effort in helping them while I am out there (unfortunately I am studying in UK at the moment)..
Anyway, HKLUG are fairly small at the moment - so there is a lot to be done and it takes time!
Well remember that 486 is essetially using the same instruction set as pentium (okay, I don't think MMX and SSE is used in BIOS...... maybe a 3D logo or voice reconigition at bios?!) so I think most Pentium BIOS would run fine on normal 486s! Anyway, I think they probably use other architecture then PC... They probably need more reliablity so they would use their own OS and stuff!
Well, the problem is that PCI modem is just a simple DSP and the modem driver needs to do all the control, etc. At the moment the big companies have lock up the programming details for them so no one actually able to even try programming it.. So if those company can release some info about them or even write the driver then the problem solve.. Anyway, I like the flashy lights on my three years old Courier.....
Oh well, M$ at work again... My favourite Emailer is gonna blow. I have been using the lite version since I first got on Internet (94ish) and I am in love with it since. I love the mail filter (I've separate junk from useful stuff so I don't have to plough throught "Make money quick" stuff) and all the fexiblilty of Eudora (Now, tell me which email client can run off a Zip disk, no installation libraries, and free, with all the filters and features?
Maybe I should buy a copy of commerical Eudora to support them...
Hmmm...Centralise security server... I wonder what happen if it crash or being hacked.....
BTW, if you don't notice, UNIX have centralise security server, using Kerbose+YP/NIS. We here in Imperial College DoC we use this combo and everything is as safe as ever, even the Windows NT WKS we use which runs off SAMBA (one NT server here just to please NT WKS's profiles roaming/auto installation).
I wonder how long does it take for M$ to fix their OOB/Denial of service/etc attack and how long does it take for Linux.....
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Well the brief CV that you have presented it seems that you haven't done a lot of OO in your programming life - it maybe a good thing to learn as OO is a beast it is still one of the best programming paradigm available today.
;-p
Don't worry about the programming lanaguage - as you have learnt so many new langauage in the pass I don't think you have problems picking new things up - have a look at C# and Java - they are the "same" aren't they
I say: Operating Systems and Programming Languages come and go, but good Software Engineering and technical understanding never dies. I mean file operation is the same principles in Unix, Windows, "Java", BillGatesMustDie OS (I make it up) - the difference is really whether they call it new File("hello").open() or open("hello", READ_ONLY).
Well, I work in a company that builds JVM (no names, no packdrill as my high school teacher said, but here is the URL reversed: avaj/moc.mbi.www) and I have to agree that Java is not as horrible as you think. We spend millions on having one of the best JIT compiler around and our JVM is used in pretty much anything you can imagine! It does scale well with MP machines, and I think certain vendor's VM aren't as optimising as it should be ;-p
I agree that Swing is SLOWWWWW because it draws each component in Java instead of natively, but why don't you give SWT (www.eclipse.org) a try? It use native components and work on quite a few platform...
If you want fairly good Chinese support I think you can try Turbolinux 7 - they are bigger then Redhat in China because they have a much better chinese input method support and stuff - and I have tried it myself! You can switch between chinese and english just like that!
Well in fact what happened was that DEC sued Intel for "stealing" Alpha technology at around 1995 for their Pentium processor and they settle out of court - DEC sold it's microelectronic division (including networking chips, StrongARM excluding Alpha, and all DEC fabs) to Intel as part of the settlement and of course a big cheque.
Well, I don't live in US but after reading all those DMCA related news last few days I am beginning to getting concern - it seems to me that big US Corpration (even though I work for one ;-p) is beignning to *ABUSE* DMCA as a way to close down anything that they don't see fit - Okay I can understand why they want to shut down Advance Flash Linker, but why bnetd? Can't those corp. america sees that these initiative will help them further their market share? Can't they see this is a healthy competition? Seems like the World is beginning to run by commerical interest instead of in the interest of the advancement of technology - What next? Micrsoft shuts down WINE project because it helps decoding Window's secret? This is getting stupid you know....
;-p Is there anything I can do, not being a US citizen? I know UK (where I live and work) is thinking of a DMCA equivalent - maybe it is time I have a chat with my MP.....
Can one still host CVS server for bnetd outside US and still being legal? Maybe we should run a sourceforge like service in HongKong or something like that
Hmmm... It use AMD 761 chipset - so does that means if someone really wanted to they can hack the KT266A, etc and make these motherboard to work with both Alpha and Athlon?! I bet if you have the right socket on the motherboard and the right BIOS you can just swap the CPU in and you have a cheap and cheerful Alpha system......
Shame that it has come too late. Long live Athlon!
Well, while I was doing my final year project at Department Of Computing, Imperial College London we have the actual card made by Chinese University of HK. Bascially it is just a matter of having a SDRAM contoller "programmed" onto the FPGA, and wired correctly(it uses Xilinx Virtex series of FPGA, and Xilinx has implemented a SDRAM controller on it - see their tech notes - their sites is down when I write this). Having done my project with FPGAs, I would say the problem with this thing is that it is very fiddly to program the thing - it requires the understanding of software as well as hardware. I also agreed with some comments above that it lacks interrupts on SDRAM bus - therefore it is even more difficult to program the card.
Anyway, PCI FPGA cards has always been available, and they are hugely expansive. But they are getting down in price. One of the problem of FPGA is that the speed of the chips are slow (depends on the complexity of the circuit, you can only clock it to around 1Ghz for very simple cores, lot slower for complex circuit) so consider the speed of microprocessor it is not worthwhile to use them in normal computer systems - but a new niche is open up in embedded market.
Notice the name of the university is right! Chinese name of the university suggested that the "Chinese" in the university name is actually means Chinese language, not China the country.
Well, I have been a long time user with AMD CPUS since the days of K6 - I have built quite a few Athlons and I did manage to fried a Athlon 750 by not installing the heatsink properly - and the dealer in Hong Kong happily replace it (and give me a Athlon 850 wheepppy) I do agree with a lot of people that AMD processor aren't as strong in terms of installation - but then aren't we all suppose to handle our toy carefully? I mean would you drive your Porsche like a car you stolen (hmm.. actually people do! ;-p)
;-p
I also have to agree with people that Tom is rather bias at times but then hey like CNN aren't?! Oh well, I will still recommend AMD CPU to everyone - except I will make sure that their CPU cooling solution (what a technical word!) is chosen wisely!
Oh and Athlon MP with Tiger MP is way cool
In fact they do apprantly - see news.com analysis.
;-p
Oh well someone come up with something quick!
We shall make a GPL clone of FX!32!
GX!32?
Oh well, I can still remember the excitment when Alpha was announced in around 1992. I was then 14 and was hoping by the turn of the century I will have one of these lovely chip running on my desk... It is stil my dream to own an Alpha.
I will bring some flowers to the grave, and hope someone out there come up with something better (come on AMD!)soon or we are having stuck with that Itanium Beast (having work with it last summer....)
I have been working in IBM Java Tech Centre (http://developers.ibm.com/java this summer (as an intern) with an Intel Itanium box developing the Java VM for IA64.
;-p
Linux is ready for IA64 - by the time I left the compiler and OS is relatively stable enough to compile most things. Though Intel still has a few things it need to iron out in the hardware........
Most stuff in fact compile directly - I used turbolinux frontier ia64 (http://frontier.turbolinux.com/ia64 - they got helixcode and stuff working! There is a porting guide on that website as well and those of you who have an opensource project on sourceforge should be able to use the sample hardware to try to recompile and test your software.
IBM is really big about Itanium - wait for more and more announcement
Well, I do invlove in the HKLUG and know the guys out there - bascially being really materialistic out there we have trouble finding companies sponsoring us events and things - they cannot believe there is such "Free" things in life. So we have to charge a bit of membership fee and things, just to give us top up and things, and we will send members CDs and stuff.. I personally have put a lot of effort in helping them while I am out there (unfortunately I am studying in UK at the moment)..
Anyway, HKLUG are fairly small at the moment - so there is a lot to be done and it takes time!
Don't blame the poor guys!
Well remember that 486 is essetially using the same instruction set as pentium (okay, I don't think MMX and SSE is used in BIOS...... maybe a 3D logo or voice reconigition at bios?!) so I think most Pentium BIOS would run fine on normal 486s! Anyway, I think they probably use other architecture then PC... They probably need more reliablity so they would use their own OS and stuff!
Well, the problem is that PCI modem is just a simple DSP and the modem driver needs to do all the control, etc. At the moment the big companies have lock up the programming details for them so no one actually able to even try programming it.. So if those company can release some info about them or even write the driver then the problem solve.. Anyway, I like the flashy lights on my three years old Courier.....
Oh well, M$ at work again... My favourite Emailer is gonna blow. I have been using the lite version since I first got on Internet (94ish) and I am in love with it since. I love the mail filter (I've separate junk from useful stuff so I don't have to plough throught "Make money quick" stuff) and all the fexiblilty of Eudora (Now, tell me which email client can run off a Zip disk, no installation libraries, and free, with all the filters and features?
Maybe I should buy a copy of commerical Eudora to support them...
Hmmm...Centralise security server... I wonder what happen if it crash or being hacked.....
BTW, if you don't notice, UNIX have centralise security server, using Kerbose+YP/NIS. We here in Imperial College DoC we use this combo and everything is as safe as ever, even the Windows NT WKS we use which runs off SAMBA (one NT server here just to please NT WKS's profiles roaming/auto installation).
I wonder how long does it take for M$ to fix their OOB/Denial of service/etc attack and how long does it take for Linux.....
Enough said