BeRTOS is very nice for the money (free), is going in the right direction and is more than libre enough. Develop for ARM or AVR in Windows or Linux. Don't see why other core's and SoCs can't be added. It has a nice Pyython/QT configuration manager, lots of abstraction and can be debugged with GDB in conjuction with CodeIite though I have used AVRStudio4 to do the same. It just needs some lovin'. http://www.bertos.org/
A pox on my first AC post on the subject.
I have seen Dell LCD's exhibit burn-in (monitors made 7+ years ago). My plasma TV gets a bit of a logo or 4:3 ghost image but it's not permanent and does fade. I guess it's a hysteresis or long time constant decay of some sort. So, is the burning on the Macs persistent or an annoying but temporary issue?
I had a quick look at the page - I got as far as Snoop Dog's mug shot and closed the tab - honestly it looked a bit The Onion. Though if anyone designs another functional language I nominate that it be called "Fo'Shizzle".
The $140B figure seems low. Numbers like $40B are being bandied about here for a similar project already underway here in Australia (the NBN) an we only have about 1/15th the population of the USA.
Yah well I have solution... make them (the managers) utterly aware of the situation and risks in writing so they can't disavow any knowledge when it goes haywire.
As an aside the engineer in me says if you want to monitor the state of a HVAC or any control system, keep the control and internet connected networks separate and using a data diode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network) spit out some self contained UDP data with system state information but not allowing any control signals of any kind back into that more secure network.
I agree. USAians need to stop freaking out about lack of unlimited - it's hardly the end of the world and a real 1st World Problem. In.au we've been living with limited quotas since broadband began but like the OP said, value for money is getting better all the time. With the 1TB plans available now and video compression getting better (by that I mean h.264 encoders will do a better job with less bits over time) I just can't flapping imagine how even a household with 3 teenagers could warrant use of 1TB.
http://www.mikrotik.com/ devices might have what you want. They are inexpensive, very flexible and have interesting mesh modes I have yet to try out and will run directly off your fire engines battery system with some power filtering and clamping. Whatever you do in general you should have a play, write a clear specification with all sorts of test cases and run a small trial for a while. Make the devices/solution meet your requirements, not the other way around or you will be sorry.
Why? Earlier this year I got fed up with the 6 month mega upgrade cycle of Ubuntu with associated buggerups. I use Debian now with a tesing/stable apt combo and incremental upgrading every other day is far better and less intrusive. I seriously doubt I'll have to actually reinstall Debian until the HD dies. 'Testing' is a bit behind the cutting edge of packages but I am not suffering for it and it doesn't have the package thrashing of 'unstable'. I tried kernel 3.4 but bloody Atheros ath9k Wifi is broken on it even with software encryption - how, I can't understand - obviously some developer couldn't stand having a perfectly working driver and decided to refactor something just coz they can.
In kernel 3.2 the nVidia and ath9k drivers work just dandy on my laptop.
It sounds like a sports competition such as the 100m sprint at the Olympics. All the competitors are, on a world scale, fantastic athletes and the best each country has to offer at the time. But at the end of the race if you aren't in the top three you're a turd.
The british mainland is 800 miles long (1000 miles if you include the shetland and scilly isles) with 200 miles of mountains in scotland. While it may be small compared to the USA or russia its quite big compared to a lot of other countries.
I get a bit tired of my country being pigeonholed as some tiny little quaint island one step up from marthas vineyard or similar.
Your quaint little island has the same land area as my quaint little State of Victoria which has buggerall people in it. Your country is a step up from Iceland and has a shittier economy to boot. And crapper broadband.
Oh crap, I just missed out on my third Fist Post.
The wording of the summary has inflammatory overtones. OK, so a bunch of sandal-and-beige-polyester-shorts (regulation CSIRO uniform) wearing radiophysicists used their skills and worked hard at solving a problem that the simpler old Wavelan modems didn't deal with - how to handle much higher bit rates than 2Mbit in an office or home due to shorter bit periods and smooshing of the signal by reflections. Their employer spent a lot of money protecting their R&D investment worldwide and is finally reaping the benefits. This is how it's meant to work - alas CSIRO had to do battle and legal gymnastics in courts to get the so called free-trade partners to do the right thing.
The problem with patents is that you need to spend a imperial crapload of money registering them as far and wide as you can and a metric shit-tonne of money for good lawyers defending them when necessary.
What I want to know is, what cut does CSIRO get of my $35 802.11N Tenda access point? 2c?
Steady on - those companies have been making SDR since last century. No, what they do isn't so novel anymore since commodity widgets that are repurposed came out in the last year or so. You'll find though that they make hardware that is mature and is intended to be parts of larger systems that are reliable and have a long working life. They do need to get their skates on and make something comparable to RealtekDSR for price and performance. Anyway I have my ezyTV dongle sitting here waiting to get a big aerial attached.
No but what do you care if you are in the USA? You won't be using this dongle for TV, just SDR. There are plenty of Chinese sites and eBay vendors who will sell you this from China and have it at your door within 2 weeks.
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Well if free gets you bent out of shape you can *actually pay* for things like BeRTOS and FreeRTOs if you like.
BeRTOS is very nice for the money (free), is going in the right direction and is more than libre enough. Develop for ARM or AVR in Windows or Linux. Don't see why other core's and SoCs can't be added. It has a nice Pyython/QT configuration manager, lots of abstraction and can be debugged with GDB in conjuction with CodeIite though I have used AVRStudio4 to do the same. It just needs some lovin'. http://www.bertos.org/ A pox on my first AC post on the subject.
I have seen Dell LCD's exhibit burn-in (monitors made 7+ years ago). My plasma TV gets a bit of a logo or 4:3 ghost image but it's not permanent and does fade. I guess it's a hysteresis or long time constant decay of some sort. So, is the burning on the Macs persistent or an annoying but temporary issue?
I had a quick look at the page - I got as far as Snoop Dog's mug shot and closed the tab - honestly it looked a bit The Onion. Though if anyone designs another functional language I nominate that it be called "Fo'Shizzle".
According to Spike Milligan the the Daleks were Pakistani. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0n88tZQc4Q
Stick it in v19.0.1. Bring it on!
Not to mention that LCD's don't suffer the after-image and phosphor burn in that plasmas get with static images.
The $140B figure seems low. Numbers like $40B are being bandied about here for a similar project already underway here in Australia (the NBN) an we only have about 1/15th the population of the USA.
Yah well I have solution... make them (the managers) utterly aware of the situation and risks in writing so they can't disavow any knowledge when it goes haywire. As an aside the engineer in me says if you want to monitor the state of a HVAC or any control system, keep the control and internet connected networks separate and using a data diode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network) spit out some self contained UDP data with system state information but not allowing any control signals of any kind back into that more secure network.
I agree. USAians need to stop freaking out about lack of unlimited - it's hardly the end of the world and a real 1st World Problem. In .au we've been living with limited quotas since broadband began but like the OP said, value for money is getting better all the time. With the 1TB plans available now and video compression getting better (by that I mean h.264 encoders will do a better job with less bits over time) I just can't flapping imagine how even a household with 3 teenagers could warrant use of 1TB.
Ikea's super cheap CFL's make a nice warm yellow light.
I think for centuries now the ruling class (from the czars 'til today) modus operandi in Russia is "We're not happy until you're not happy."
http://www.mikrotik.com/ devices might have what you want. They are inexpensive, very flexible and have interesting mesh modes I have yet to try out and will run directly off your fire engines battery system with some power filtering and clamping. Whatever you do in general you should have a play, write a clear specification with all sorts of test cases and run a small trial for a while. Make the devices/solution meet your requirements, not the other way around or you will be sorry.
It's sort of true. I used to see boxes for high end CRTs, like the old SUN monitors, marked as Southern Hemisphere.
Why? Earlier this year I got fed up with the 6 month mega upgrade cycle of Ubuntu with associated buggerups. I use Debian now with a tesing/stable apt combo and incremental upgrading every other day is far better and less intrusive. I seriously doubt I'll have to actually reinstall Debian until the HD dies. 'Testing' is a bit behind the cutting edge of packages but I am not suffering for it and it doesn't have the package thrashing of 'unstable'. I tried kernel 3.4 but bloody Atheros ath9k Wifi is broken on it even with software encryption - how, I can't understand - obviously some developer couldn't stand having a perfectly working driver and decided to refactor something just coz they can. In kernel 3.2 the nVidia and ath9k drivers work just dandy on my laptop.
It sounds like a sports competition such as the 100m sprint at the Olympics. All the competitors are, on a world scale, fantastic athletes and the best each country has to offer at the time. But at the end of the race if you aren't in the top three you're a turd.
Oh great why didn't they just do this with the iPad3 I *just* bought. It sure could do with a die shrink. Doing it on iPad2 seems arse about.
The british mainland is 800 miles long (1000 miles if you include the shetland and scilly isles) with 200 miles of mountains in scotland. While it may be small compared to the USA or russia its quite big compared to a lot of other countries.
I get a bit tired of my country being pigeonholed as some tiny little quaint island one step up from marthas vineyard or similar.
Your quaint little island has the same land area as my quaint little State of Victoria which has buggerall people in it. Your country is a step up from Iceland and has a shittier economy to boot. And crapper broadband.
I did EE in 1992 and this is exactly what they said to us in the introductory lecture. 10 years after grad we'd best be managers.
Look, meet the guys who did this and their story on their implementation of WiFi as we know it: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGMm8I86NMM Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ9E8EKCeCw&feature=relmfu
Oh crap, I just missed out on my third Fist Post. The wording of the summary has inflammatory overtones. OK, so a bunch of sandal-and-beige-polyester-shorts (regulation CSIRO uniform) wearing radiophysicists used their skills and worked hard at solving a problem that the simpler old Wavelan modems didn't deal with - how to handle much higher bit rates than 2Mbit in an office or home due to shorter bit periods and smooshing of the signal by reflections. Their employer spent a lot of money protecting their R&D investment worldwide and is finally reaping the benefits. This is how it's meant to work - alas CSIRO had to do battle and legal gymnastics in courts to get the so called free-trade partners to do the right thing. The problem with patents is that you need to spend a imperial crapload of money registering them as far and wide as you can and a metric shit-tonne of money for good lawyers defending them when necessary. What I want to know is, what cut does CSIRO get of my $35 802.11N Tenda access point? 2c?
Steady on - those companies have been making SDR since last century. No, what they do isn't so novel anymore since commodity widgets that are repurposed came out in the last year or so. You'll find though that they make hardware that is mature and is intended to be parts of larger systems that are reliable and have a long working life. They do need to get their skates on and make something comparable to RealtekDSR for price and performance. Anyway I have my ezyTV dongle sitting here waiting to get a big aerial attached.
No but what do you care if you are in the USA? You won't be using this dongle for TV, just SDR. There are plenty of Chinese sites and eBay vendors who will sell you this from China and have it at your door within 2 weeks.
So more people can do what you do in a limited volume of space and finite frequency bands.
It's not Dr Fill's fault for not getting it. Clearly it's Dr Ginsberg who is not getting it.