There is an Mwave developer's kit that was sold to OEM's and other people to make their own DSP files. I had it for a while, but there wasn't really any good docs in it. Check around on ebay for a copy.
I don't agree with this, you can't get documentation like this about Windows. It isn't suited for an end user that would like to know how to change their background colors. There is a pretty limited number of people that would even need a book like this, such as OS students, aspiring kernel hackers, etc. Even a VB/VC++ application developer wouldn't need information of this detail.
Reading through a compressed random-access file may not be as big of a win as you think, since the db will need to decompress things to determine where your data is. OTOH, if you have a fast processor and slower media (CDROM) and plenty of RAM, the drawbacks will disappear after a few spins through due to caching.
Even better, the 120 gig unit I owned managed to erase two of the four drives. Their advance replacement took over a week to arrive and then they charged my credit card for the deposit after I returned the broken one.
They said that I should upgrade the software in the unit I just received because they upped the timeout for IDE commands from 2 seconds to 20 seconds. That seemed severely wrong to me.
Throw it away, or pull the drives and put them in something better.
I got my webgear cards working under linux in less than 10 minutes, but under Win95 on the same laptop, it never did work. Their tech support monkey told me to upgrade my 486 to Win98. Yeah, right...
I wish they would give more information on the reasoning behind this? Was it market driven or did someone ask them not to ship it?
Some other points in the book
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I got a copy of the book at the Atlanta Linux Expo from a Sangoma rep. It does a relatively good job of explaining T1 circuits and how frame relay works. This was one of the first things I had to learn a while ago and the book would have saved some time for me.
I liked the book, it's pretty easy reading and was definitely worth the time spent reading it.
It looks like the manufacturers are split about 50-50 between the people that are using Linux because they should and they believe in free software, and the rest are looking to shave a few more %% profit by cutting out wince. What are the odds you'll ever see the kernel mods done for the Acer PDA? Compare that with Axis, who has ported Linux to their own architecture and have the whole pile available for download on their site.
Will we be seeing any GPL compliance suits from all this Linux use?
I think a real alarm system would be a better bet. They are designed to run longer on battery power, have better protection on the leads, and have neat displays available. Some of them do have RS232 outputs so you can monitor it from your linux machine, however.
DSC is a pretty popular brand. They include manuals and are pretty easy to set up. If you are installing it, you can do it for under $300-$400.
The FBI is the first government organization to realize that PDF files with black bars overlaid on sensitive information isn't effective.
Of course, that is bad for everyone that wonders what is under the redaction marks.
I've talked with a few of their employees, one of which had a wife and daughter, the other was married. They both were happy with their jobs. One managed an office and the other was a sysadmin.
...and a skill, and a craft, and a science. As much as managers would like it to be engineering, it's just not. With construction you are dealing with physical components with known properties that have been tested for centuries. Structural Engineering would look more like software if you had different bricks for every job, some of which are left overs from the last building, some are new stuff that you got the first pallet of, and they all were different. Also, no one is surprised when it takes a year to make a building and includes months of design, but no one would go for software schedules like that.
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Yes.:-)
I think time to market is one of the main things hurting software development as a whole. People would rather put shit on a CD and be the first to market than have their lunch eaten even though they came out with a better product. Purchasers don't seem to have any memory of the problems with the last version, or they think that in the few months of development that all the bugs have been eliminated and new features got added.
There isn't much that can be done. No one will buy Windows 2001 if the box says "No new features, but everything works correctly!". You'll hear people say "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," but it is broke and gets more broken every time they try to fix things.
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Microsoft employees have written some great books like the two you have mentioned, but I don't think any of the contents have stuck. The projects that the authors worked on (VC++ 1.0 for example) ended up great, but overall, the results end up pretty mediocre (schedule and quality wise).
Edward Yourdon seems to be underappreciated. My software engineering teacher thought he was more of a hack and preferred other authors that couldn't convey an idea nearly as well.
Of course, Decline and Fall was a bit over dramatic. I haven't read Rise and Resurrection yet.
If you are talking about Snap Servers, I would strongly advise against it. We have a 120 gig version that managed to completely corrupt itself and finally kick 2 of the 4 drives out of the array. Their tech support were morons and they couldn't ship my advance replacement for a week. To top it off, they also charged my credit card for the security deposit even though I sent the broken product back within 30 days.
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There is an Mwave developer's kit that was sold to OEM's and other people to make their own DSP files. I had it for a while, but there wasn't really any good docs in it. Check around on ebay for a copy.
I don't agree with this, you can't get documentation like this about Windows. It isn't suited for an end user that would like to know how to change their background colors. There is a pretty limited number of people that would even need a book like this, such as OS students, aspiring kernel hackers, etc. Even a VB/VC++ application developer wouldn't need information of this detail.
This sounds an awful lot like what I set up last year. bookzilla.com did the same thing, same conditions.
Reading through a compressed random-access file may not be as big of a win as you think, since the db will need to decompress things to determine where your data is. OTOH, if you have a fast processor and slower media (CDROM) and plenty of RAM, the drawbacks will disappear after a few spins through due to caching.
Even better, the 120 gig unit I owned managed to erase two of the four drives. Their advance replacement took over a week to arrive and then they charged my credit card for the deposit after I returned the broken one.
They said that I should upgrade the software in the unit I just received because they upped the timeout for IDE commands from 2 seconds to 20 seconds. That seemed severely wrong to me.
Throw it away, or pull the drives and put them in something better.
I got my webgear cards working under linux in less than 10 minutes, but under Win95 on the same laptop, it never did work. Their tech support monkey told me to upgrade my 486 to Win98. Yeah, right...
I wish they would give more information on the reasoning behind this? Was it market driven or did someone ask them not to ship it?
I got a copy of the book at the Atlanta Linux Expo from a Sangoma rep. It does a relatively good job of explaining T1 circuits and how frame relay works. This was one of the first things I had to learn a while ago and the book would have saved some time for me.
I liked the book, it's pretty easy reading and was definitely worth the time spent reading it.
It looks like the manufacturers are split about 50-50 between the people that are using Linux because they should and they believe in free software, and the rest are looking to shave a few more %% profit by cutting out wince. What are the odds you'll ever see the kernel mods done for the Acer PDA? Compare that with Axis, who has ported Linux to their own architecture and have the whole pile available for download on their site.
Will we be seeing any GPL compliance suits from all this Linux use?
If it interferes with interstate commerce, it can be overturned by a federal court.
My resolution is 2560x1024, I can't get too much higher.
I just hope the law here isn't struck down for interfering with interstate commerce.
BTW: That site wins the record for the most real estate taken up by the sidebar. Less than 50% of the screen contained actual content.
I think a real alarm system would be a better bet. They are designed to run longer on battery power, have better protection on the leads, and have neat displays available. Some of them do have RS232 outputs so you can monitor it from your linux machine, however.
DSC is a pretty popular brand. They include manuals and are pretty easy to set up. If you are installing it, you can do it for under $300-$400.
The FBI is the first government organization to realize that PDF files with black bars overlaid on sensitive information isn't effective.
Of course, that is bad for everyone that wonders what is under the redaction marks.
It's good to see that Postgres has shown you can include real RDBMS features and still be faster than MySQL.
If it doesn't have row level locking at all, how can adjacent rows become locked?
There is some legal principle that lets interested parties bring suit for things like that. Someone smarter than I will surely know the proper name.
That's pretty cool, but it works about 25% of the time for my browser (Communicator 4.72 on Linux).
That's nothing, we seem to be allowing convicted people the right to vote in Iowa info.
I've talked with a few of their employees, one of which had a wife and daughter, the other was married. They both were happy with their jobs. One managed an office and the other was a sysadmin.
...and a skill, and a craft, and a science. As much as managers would like it to be engineering, it's just not. With construction you are dealing with physical components with known properties that have been tested for centuries. Structural Engineering would look more like software if you had different bricks for every job, some of which are left overs from the last building, some are new stuff that you got the first pallet of, and they all were different. Also, no one is surprised when it takes a year to make a building and includes months of design, but no one would go for software schedules like that.
Yes. :-)
I think time to market is one of the main things hurting software development as a whole. People would rather put shit on a CD and be the first to market than have their lunch eaten even though they came out with a better product. Purchasers don't seem to have any memory of the problems with the last version, or they think that in the few months of development that all the bugs have been eliminated and new features got added.
There isn't much that can be done. No one will buy Windows 2001 if the box says "No new features, but everything works correctly!". You'll hear people say "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," but it is broke and gets more broken every time they try to fix things.
Microsoft employees have written some great books like the two you have mentioned, but I don't think any of the contents have stuck. The projects that the authors worked on (VC++ 1.0 for example) ended up great, but overall, the results end up pretty mediocre (schedule and quality wise).
Edward Yourdon seems to be underappreciated. My software engineering teacher thought he was more of a hack and preferred other authors that couldn't convey an idea nearly as well.
Of course, Decline and Fall was a bit over dramatic. I haven't read Rise and Resurrection yet.
No, just URL mangling by slashdot. Search for wesright@my-deja.com and you'll get lots of them.
If you are talking about Snap Servers, I would strongly advise against it. We have a 120 gig version that managed to completely corrupt itself and finally kick 2 of the 4 drives out of the array. Their tech support were morons and they couldn't ship my advance replacement for a week. To top it off, they also charged my credit card for the security deposit even though I sent the broken product back within 30 days.