The fact that WinCE is both really expensive and closed is probably a problem for everyone, If I spend that sort of money on anything I want source and I want support.
When my organization was smaller saving money by spending time making home grown or open source solutions work was considered a good thing. Now that it's huge and I don't code anymore but wave my arms vigorously (AKA manage) it's clear that we're better off spending money on tools and talent on the front end. Still it's a very long haul to explain to the higher-ups that it's a good idea to spend money on code covered by the GPL (but worth it).
On a side note can I install ReactOS on Virtual PC on a Dual G5?... I wouldn't mind giving it a whirl.
I've been doing embedded development for about 20 years. And the group I work with hit this wall in 1996~7, There was no ReactOS then so now we all are POSIX sorts of guys. We spent 18 months developing a project using RTEMS which in hindsight was a bit to big for what we needed. Now we use NetBSD and Linux and occasionally we dust off the same home made kernel we've been using for years if we must be really tiny.
It would interesting to how my career would have developed if ReactOS was available then...
Every young developer I have ever hired says that and I've always put it down to the self confidence or arrogance it takes to be good at doing what they do.
The simple fact is that in my business the path that begins with throwing ANY electronic document away ends in either unemployment, court or worse.
We have more than 20 devices that are no long in production that we provide spares for, another 10 or so that are obsolete, 15 in series production and 7 in the development pipeline.
Like you said it's a lot easier to re-factor than write from scratch in most cases and in the rest you still use the old code to write the new.. .
"artifically providing job security"... While I try to always attribute things like this to stupidity or poor work habits. I have found several "events" in each device's documentation or source that appear almost like one thread in a giant tapestry has been singled out and purposely removed. Usually it's subtle and a few weeks archeologist work (and a little assembly coding) resolves it. But it always leaves an "on purpose" taste in my mouth. Still though it's fun in a perverse way and I would not be adverse to being a full time reverse engineer (if I ever have to find another job)
The first thing I did was hire summer students to convert all of the electronic documents, some of was challenging (as I described in another reply) but doable. All the kids are back in school now so it's a lot more quiet in my office & labs.
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You're right though some days I do feel like I need a priest and a good deal of the refactoring juice
What's weird is that we've had the most trouble with the extreme ends (time wise) of this whole project. We need to provide spares for the devices that are no longer in production. And the devices that were "mostly finished development and heading to series production" probably will have to be redesigned from the ground up. The devices in series production all have unreleased firmware slated to go production in 2005 but no one really remembers or cares so I've put off the validation until someone whines about.
I work in an industry where various government bodies can knock on the door at any time and ask to review our records so the Idea of throwing something away is akin to committing suicide with a rusty spork. What's totally bizarre, in my mind, is that previous owners reaction to this was to simply never put certain types of problems down on paper or any other electronic format so the why of many changes is lost...
In the weeks that have gone by since I submitted the question, this is what I accomplished the easiest (I assume because I am most comfortable with source code). This also allowed me to covert the random line endings to a consistent UNIX ending, remove all the errant tabs, run the source through a source formatter (this removed a remarkable number of differences in various files) and then check it into SubVersion. That was the what in firmware that changed.
The why is mostly contained with in Outlook files, which I have at least completely converted to the current version or *.OST files. However the only thing that read these files is Outlook and I find that very, very scary (given the number of corrupt files I went thorough) What I'm thinking of doing now is to converting them to something Mozilla'ish thinking that would be more common and more safe.
Then there is the all of the Adobe stuff, the Mac stuff and the Adobe on Mac stuff. That has been very challenging to update mostly because the newest Adobe apps only import older files to a point and then not so I (OK my Student) has wound up using there different versions and my old Mac Cube to do a three step update.
It stuns me that there could be any worse than ashcroft. Rudy's source of the NYC becoming a police state? Well from my view that's what America wants!
I had the impression that google machines were in various locations. When I search I windup searching in German in the ".at" domain, because that's where I am.
Surely those machines are not in the US?
I guess what I'm saying is that... yes the latency would be too big a barrier
I actually really like Visual Grep! I think what it boils down to is that when I'm using a GUI I want to use the GUI and when I use a CLI I want to use the CLI. But I don't like hopping back and forth. I have a bunch of laptops I use in the lab, and the one that has windows on it also has the Unix for Windows utilities you linked to and they work great.
The real problem is when you work for a huge company like I do the preventers of Information Technology want everyone to use the exact same computer whether you are the receptionist, my secretary, my assistant, one of the propeller head chemists, or me. They actually bill my department for extra support because I have several computers which can write to the local disk!
So to make a long story short, I'm glad I've got the grep I have. We are not allowed to muck about with the registry where I work and I'm sure if I tried the department of IT security would come and beat me with their batons.
Still, I see the twisted Microsoft logic, I'll have to go home and try this on OS X and see what happens.
Actually it's more like getting my ancient AA C compilier to work DOSEMU and my USB EPROM programmer to with Linux or *BSD so I could just get over it.
My windows XP search (at work) is very odd. It will not find text in assembly files (*.S) that I know is there. I've played around with turning the indexing thing on and off to no avail. That and other strange behaviour led me to find Visual Grep which is well worth whatever I paid for it (50 USD?). Still something like that should work in a real OS.
You know just because you're going to be modded as troll or flamebate, doesn't mean it's not funny. And like all good humor it has a bit of truth in it.
What would it look like if the government, or the current administration was involved?
Surely They wouldn't point out that censoring was going on or what was being censored. That would defete the whole point of censorship (i.e. having the unwashed masses forget the whole thing ever happened).
I'm not saying that's what is going on, only that we can't tell what is really going on.
The Killings Fields is the only movie I'm aware of...
A couple of years ago I moved from a big city in the US to a small city in the EU. I enjoy living here but did not realize how much until I went back for a visit. I had a hard time deciding which was worse the suicidal driving or the pre-election hysteria
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When my organization was smaller saving money by spending time making home grown or open source solutions work was considered a good thing. Now that it's huge and I don't code anymore but wave my arms vigorously (AKA manage) it's clear that we're better off spending money on tools and talent on the front end. Still it's a very long haul to explain to the higher-ups that it's a good idea to spend money on code covered by the GPL (but worth it).
On a side note can I install ReactOS on Virtual PC on a Dual G5?... I wouldn't mind giving it a whirl.
It would interesting to how my career would have developed if ReactOS was available then...
The simple fact is that in my business the path that begins with throwing ANY electronic document away ends in either unemployment, court or worse.
We have more than 20 devices that are no long in production that we provide spares for, another 10 or so that are obsolete, 15 in series production and 7 in the development pipeline.
Like you said it's a lot easier to re-factor than write from scratch in most cases and in the rest you still use the old code to write the new.. .
The first thing I did was hire summer students to convert all of the electronic documents, some of was challenging (as I described in another reply) but doable. All the kids are back in school now so it's a lot more quiet in my office & labs.
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You're right though some days I do feel like I need a priest and a good deal of the refactoring juice
I work in an industry where various government bodies can knock on the door at any time and ask to review our records so the Idea of throwing something away is akin to committing suicide with a rusty spork. What's totally bizarre, in my mind, is that previous owners reaction to this was to simply never put certain types of problems down on paper or any other electronic format so the why of many changes is lost...
Besides I'm not a Pro-E jockey and don't want be. He, on the other hand, did when he started and has learned an important life lesson.
The why is mostly contained with in Outlook files, which I have at least completely converted to the current version or *.OST files. However the only thing that read these files is Outlook and I find that very, very scary (given the number of corrupt files I went thorough) What I'm thinking of doing now is to converting them to something Mozilla'ish thinking that would be more common and more safe.
Then there is the all of the Adobe stuff, the Mac stuff and the Adobe on Mac stuff. That has been very challenging to update mostly because the newest Adobe apps only import older files to a point and then not so I (OK my Student) has wound up using there different versions and my old Mac Cube to do a three step update.
It stuns me that there could be any worse than ashcroft. Rudy's source of the NYC becoming a police state? Well from my view that's what America wants!
They woke her up but no bodies were found.
Yeah, I know what you mean. If only I could buy a PowerMac use it for a year and then pay market prices for it, I'd save a lot of money
Surely those machines are not in the US?
I guess what I'm saying is that... yes the latency would be too big a barrier
The photos are good!
The real problem is when you work for a huge company like I do the preventers of Information Technology want everyone to use the exact same computer whether you are the receptionist, my secretary, my assistant, one of the propeller head chemists, or me. They actually bill my department for extra support because I have several computers which can write to the local disk!
Still, I see the twisted Microsoft logic, I'll have to go home and try this on OS X and see what happens.
Actually it's more like getting my ancient AA C compilier to work DOSEMU and my USB EPROM programmer to with Linux or *BSD so I could just get over it.
My windows XP search (at work) is very odd. It will not find text in assembly files (*.S) that I know is there. I've played around with turning the indexing thing on and off to no avail. That and other strange behaviour led me to find Visual Grep which is well worth whatever I paid for it (50 USD?). Still something like that should work in a real OS.
You know just because you're going to be modded as troll or flamebate, doesn't mean it's not funny. And like all good humor it has a bit of truth in it.
1:They were religious conservatives and didn't care about much else
2: They were physical conservatives and didn't care about much else
3: They thought that what the US should do is kill all Muslims and Kerry did not run on the genocide platform.
4: They thought Kerry was a douchbag and wouldn't vote for him anyway (to steal someone else's line).
What I found interesting is that most people couldn't come up with any other specific campaign issues.
Yep, but I only had 120 characters. Besides "the fanatical" and "the fooled" amount to pretty much the same thing.
I wonder if we'll be able to see the four elephants too.
Actually I was thinking that the algo for picking images didn't work like everyone thought...
Interesting that it appears on the "web" search and not on the "image" search...
Surely They wouldn't point out that censoring was going on or what was being censored. That would defete the whole point of censorship (i.e. having the unwashed masses forget the whole thing ever happened).
I'm not saying that's what is going on, only that we can't tell what is really going on.
A couple of years ago I moved from a big city in the US to a small city in the EU. I enjoy living here but did not realize how much until I went back for a visit. I had a hard time deciding which was worse the suicidal driving or the pre-election hysteria
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