However, my *biggest* beef with OS X (this is an unrelated plea for help from anyone who knows) is that I cannot find a way to set up remote "raw" printers on OS X
Have you found the "Advanced" option when adding a new printer?
In System Prefs -> Print & Fax, add a new printer (the '+' button), and then the trick is option-click on "More Printers..." and then the top dropdown list in the dialog will have an "Advanced" option. Hitting that will let you choose things like talking to remote LPR queues and more.
Which is why any at least half-sane FPGA host card has memory on board that the FPGA can get to without having to go via the PCI bus.
Throwing a few dozen/hundred meg of moderately fast memory on a card is pretty cheap now days.
Re:Professional racing *PREVENTS* bike-innovation!
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Dude, it is a recumbent. I'm guessing you ride one, so you'll have 1001 reasons for riding it, but they all boil down to the fact you wasted your money on one.
There are some of us that actually enjoy riding a bike, which means not just riding on the flat (which is about all a recumbent can do), but going up hills, down them (a very scary proposition on a 'bent) and across rough terrain (either off-road, or just city streets!). 'Bents have some nice properties, but regular style bicycles just work better across more situations.
Actually, I'm currently in the process of writing a device driver for a hardware product we are developing, and our first target platform is FreeBSD. Why? Well there are a few reasons, but not least of them is that the BSD licence is so much nicer to work with.
As it turns out, we won't be doing anything that would cause complications with the GPL (and so it looks like one of the next platforms I'll have to look at is Linux - or Solaris, depending on where demand is) - but the GPL does cause some trepidation up amongst the pointy-haired types. Maybe the Microsoft FUD has been successful.
Re:gcc 3.x compilers have serious C++ perfs issues
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Now, call me wacky, but a compiler isn't really a good bug checking tool.
Sure, like most people, I get lazy and run code past a compiler kinda like I'd use a spell checker - but using your compiler to find bugs... that makes me squirm in my seat.
Don't get me wrong, I also think going the other way to the point where code should be hand checked as to not produce any warnings/errors on the first compile is a bit silly (Capability Maturity Model kind of thing), and I would also assume the parent poster doesn't use gcc as the only way of finding those kind of bugs, but lint, splint, valgrind and similar is a much better choice than hoping the compiler gets it.
But then, I refuse to use that pig called C++, so what would I know:)
The University I used to teach at designed and implemented their own OO teaching language that did enforce comments as well as invariants (pre and post conditions on methods).
99% of the comments and invariants were just what the parent described. Sure, as markers we should have bounced more code back to the students, but heck, sometimes we just agreed with them!
Um, this isn't as goofy as you might think. There are actually process scheduling methods that work like this (well, the eBay one anyway). It's called Microeconomic scheduling - each resource has a price and to get it you have to bid for it.
Sorry, this is supposedly my research area, I'll try not to let too many facts ruin a good story again:)
If you read through the archives (I'm on the list) you'll see that the code posted is actually the code to DeCSS - a winblows app. But it contains code written by someone else (also on the list), and it was GPL'ed - that code was originally assembler and then turned into C (the assembler was reverse engineered). The legality is a biggy - but the current feeling is now that its out there, its going to take a fair bit to stop it now. Stay tuned.
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They exist. Their offices don't have big flashy signs out the front, but they certainly exist.
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Otherwise a whole lot of people I know must just disappear into a hole every day when they claim to be at work
I thought BefDC was proof of that brain damage years ago.
However, my *biggest* beef with OS X (this is an unrelated plea for help from anyone who knows) is that I cannot find a way to set up remote "raw" printers on OS X
Have you found the "Advanced" option when adding a new printer?
In System Prefs -> Print & Fax, add a new printer (the '+' button), and then the trick is option-click on "More Printers..." and then the top dropdown list in the dialog will have an "Advanced" option. Hitting that will let you choose things like talking to remote LPR queues and more.
Which is why any at least half-sane FPGA host card has memory on board that the FPGA can get to without having to go via the PCI bus.
Throwing a few dozen/hundred meg of moderately fast memory on a card is pretty cheap now days.
Dude, it is a recumbent. I'm guessing you ride one, so you'll have 1001 reasons for riding it, but they all boil down to the fact you wasted your money on one.
There are some of us that actually enjoy riding a bike, which means not just riding on the flat (which is about all a recumbent can do), but going up hills, down them (a very scary proposition on a 'bent) and across rough terrain (either off-road, or just city streets!). 'Bents have some nice properties, but regular style bicycles just work better across more situations.
Get over it.
Actually, I'm currently in the process of writing a device driver for a hardware product we are developing, and our first target platform is FreeBSD. Why? Well there are a few reasons, but not least of them is that the BSD licence is so much nicer to work with.
As it turns out, we won't be doing anything that would cause complications with the GPL (and so it looks like one of the next platforms I'll have to look at is Linux - or Solaris, depending on where demand is) - but the GPL does cause some trepidation up amongst the pointy-haired types. Maybe the Microsoft FUD has been successful.
Now, call me wacky, but a compiler isn't really a good bug checking tool.
... that makes me squirm in my seat.
:)
Sure, like most people, I get lazy and run code past a compiler kinda like I'd use a spell checker - but using your compiler to find bugs
Don't get me wrong, I also think going the other way to the point where code should be hand checked as to not produce any warnings/errors on the first compile is a bit silly (Capability Maturity Model kind of thing), and I would also assume the parent poster doesn't use gcc as the only way of finding those kind of bugs, but lint, splint, valgrind and similar is a much better choice than hoping the compiler gets it.
But then, I refuse to use that pig called C++, so what would I know
The University I used to teach at designed and implemented their own OO teaching language that did enforce comments as well as invariants (pre and post conditions on methods).
99% of the comments and invariants were just what the parent described. Sure, as markers we should have bounced more code back to the students, but heck, sometimes we just agreed with them!
Um, this isn't as goofy as you might think. There are actually process scheduling methods that work like this (well, the eBay one anyway). It's called Microeconomic scheduling - each resource has a price and to get it you have to bid for it.
:)
Sorry, this is supposedly my research area, I'll try not to let too many facts ruin a good story again
Isn't that nice ;^)
Gentlemen (and Ladies), start your hacking!
If you read through the archives (I'm on the list) you'll see that the code posted is actually the code to DeCSS - a winblows app. But it contains code written by someone else (also on the list), and it was GPL'ed - that code was originally assembler and then turned into C (the assembler was reverse engineered). The legality is a biggy - but the current feeling is now that its out there, its going to take a fair bit to stop it now. Stay tuned.