I for one am very glad that the IITs and IISc have decided on this path. This is definitely a step in the right direction. I used to watch some of the UGC programs in India when I was in high school. These seem to be better in quality and provides the on-demand access. Would be even better if we could get some rich metadata for these videos (like year, course, very brief summary etc.)
This may sound like a "me too" compared to MIT's initiative. There nothing wrong with a me too at all! "Me too" beats "why should I" any day.
If you use Winddows _only_ for uploading from a digital camera.... welcome to Knoppix. Knoppix can detect a USB digicam and pull pics out of it (using a file system metaphor - drag and drop etc). It works well with my minolta and I _did not_ have to install ANY special crap for camera - the run of the mill USB and Knoppix's PnP (it works man!).
I've even asked my uncle a neophyte at all this digital-cam/USB driver stuff - he boots into Knoppix and moves pics off to a disk and then uses Photoshop to dress it up a bit - and you're done!
So if digital cam is the only reason.... well there goes your last reason!
Show Bill the GATE - and slam it!
If you're PC/laptop does not have USB you can buy a PCI card that provides 1394(firewire) and a USB2 card for about $25-$30 (non-name brand).
Krishnan
If there's no food - Linux counts for NOUGHT! And just in case you're a C-- person...
NOUGHT == 0! Or to put it another way.... if you ain't got no bread - cake don't matter babe! A Tarantino-inspired-foul-mouthed-cursing dude's rant on a "open-source-crap solves world-poverty" type of opinion. It's almost akin to "U.S.-style-f**ked-up-democracy (or duo-cracy) is the prescription for Iraq" kind of mono-mania that seems to plague the U.S. "farc-o-cracy" - or perhaps "demo-crazy" (with a Z not a C). Sanity is becoming increasingly rare - specially with 6 BILLION (god-damned-gloriously-uncaring) people on this clod of parched Earth we call "home".
Could'nt resist the tempation to veer off on a politico-tangent.... but it's all meant in right earnest! Mod me all you want - ye evil sons of bush the lesser (or is it Bush the LOSER)..... yuk yuk yuk:) In "teen-speak" ==> "same diff" !!:) I finally get it!!
r.s.k.
Well I hope that conveyed my sentiments well enough. Linux != life Bush ==> MadApe US != a democracy and... - just learn to like it !!!
What if the Titans (i.e. the inhabitants of the satellite Titan) visit Earth, and decide to "liberate" us from our "solar centric" views. After all they Titans have managed to live, prosper, and flourish in a satellite with _far_ less sunlight than Earth.
Of course they'd try to disabuse us of our notion of day&night, that light is better than darkness etc. Perhaps they would incarcerate our political "leaders" (or is it moronic buffoons) and kick their (dumb)asses.
Oh how I wish that would happen.....
Most certainly hate the QFNs - I've been hunting for a pcb assembler who can assemble QFNs _and_ at a reasonable price (cannot afford $250 to solder 5 boards - I'm already down to a 3 digit bank balance(in US$)).
SOIC would be a welcome change - but my design is aleady committed to the nvlsi chip - so would be very costly to back out now. Also nvlsi seems a simpler solution (fewer external components ==> less mistakes).
So can you recommend a _cheap_ and efficient prototype pcb manuf guy/company/backdoor operation ?
rsk.
Lots of companies have single-chip-2.4Ghz radio ICs.
Like nvlsi.no or ChipCon. And NVLSI is better by a mile - quite literally a single chip 2.4GHz radio - make a sensor network in a few weeks.... if you find someone to help you solder the QFN pkg (goddamn SMD pkgs).Perhaps they bundle the ZigBee protocol within the IC ??
Hello All,
This is a _very_ nice move. Would help a ton of students learn, and save them a ton of $$. Textbooks published in the US/UK - mostly U.S. - represent a signifcant portion of the curriculum in EE/CS/CompEngr. Texts like the "dragon books", or the OS books, or Taub & Schilling or Millman & Halkias, Benjamin Kuo (control systems) are worth their weight in gold - but still basically unaffordable in the _converted_ currency.
Open/cheaper/free textbooks would be a welcome move in many countries. Yes they still need to get access to the www to download the book - but that is becoming easier by the day.
RSK.
Well - booting from a floppy!! Wow! I can remember those days - running TurboC (TC/TCC) from "ramdisk" on a PC with 640KB!! Days where you could literally carry "your stuff" with you in a box of diskettes and maybe a couple of tapes.
In comparison I think the set of choices available today simply is mind blowing!! Do you want to boot from the net, floppy + big disk, just a disk, USB, firewire + variants, and in the last 6 months or so.... I saw booting from a "ram disk" (i.e. basically RAM + some interfacing logic + battery pack - HOLY COW!!). Not to mention the host of "flash ram/disk/whatever" that's available now (non-trivial $$ but it's still a choice).
I love the set of choices - but what i really like is the ability to very niftily setup a realistic work env in a flash.... and leave pretty much nothing behind when you leave.
I somehow seem to gravitate towards the ability to walk-in to a place talk to the guys, setup shop in 30 mins, work for a steady period and then just leave - leaving _nothing_ behind you! No boot partitions, no email files, no/tmp crap absolutely _nothing_.
Almost seems spooky - when you think back to the era of either Windows with mystery files/registry crap + who knows what else, or the "big iron" Unix boxes which took hours and hours to setup/configure and get productive on!
Now with a Knoppix plus "job/role specific software" - I'm in virtual heaven! This could really be a big deal for an IT shop or a contractor or a "coders on demand" outfit.
Hello/.ers,
Is Vigyaan the start of a new trend in building "customized distros + bundled apps" by _vertical_. Not to sound like Mr.Marketeer - but by vertical i mean a narrow segment of users who care about say a handful of _must_have_apps_, along with the general utility/productivity apps.
I can imagine that having a specialized distro for the EDA/PCB/ design guys - that had say gEDA, pcb and few other "must_have_apps". This would be a total godsend for say someone who does pcb work for a living and can get right to the meat of his/her work and not have to worry about this that and the other. Specially with gEDA being somewhat of a monster to setup - since it has diff "sub-project" modules which all need to sync up to have something usable.
Anyway, EDA is vertical that I can think of - there must surely be MANY others - say something for the finance dudes/dudettes, or more such fields/areas.
Hello All,
I've upgraded a few things every so often - usually because of some security alert/bug etc.
Recently I went to upgrade my Koss dvd player (the cheap stuff) KS3112. The Koss website posts a link
http://www.sonigem.com/uploaded_files/software_arc hive/KS3112-2.zip
with instruction in a PDF within in the.zip file. The problem is that there no mention of WHY we need this upgrade, or what the problems are etc.
Does Koss really expect me to "upgrade" without telling me what the problem is ?? What if they "disable" some features ?!?
Am I just being paranoid ??
Well thats a good point - assembly is not that great for a complex data structure..... but on the other hand a commercial db kernel like say Orcl - has a good deal of assembly code that deals with the most elementary stuff like say a spin-lock, or a latch etc - and also for some of the routines used to insert/update/mod a b-tree (and it's cousins). So essentially it's used to tweak a VERY heavily used codepath, thus shaving off a decent percentage of time.
Of course it'd be CRAZY to implement the whole B* in asm - might as well jump off a cliff!
Well sort of - an assembly programmer has to provide information to the assembler + linker to generate the actual code that will cooperate with the operating system - i.e. the OS determines to a large extent where the stack shoudl start, whats the default heap size/location, what order things are located in memory etc. This is no more than just "target'ing" your code for a specific OS - most embedded tools/guys do this each time they switch processors/micro-controllers.
I like the spirit - but selling for $$ is pretty damn hard. The average "small business" is also hard pressed for $$ - so they nickel and dime you to death. So you land up giving them software + consulting + "fixing their chaotic processes" all for a pittance. I do like the spirit of the idea - but have been burned by 2 kind'a-bad experiences.
Dude.... they can make your life SUCK... and you'll make your life super-SUCK trying to mke their lives suck (and exactly who's life anyway the FBI's - it's an instituition dude and this is thier JOB!!). Just get smart and cut the freebies.
--
I intend to live my life.... hopefully in peace
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I for one am very glad that the IITs and IISc have decided on this path. This is definitely a step in the right direction. I used to watch some of the UGC programs in India when I was in high school. These seem to be better in quality and provides the on-demand access. Would be even better if we could get some rich metadata for these videos (like year, course, very brief summary etc.) This may sound like a "me too" compared to MIT's initiative. There nothing wrong with a me too at all! "Me too" beats "why should I" any day.
If you use Winddows _only_ for uploading from a digital camera .... welcome to Knoppix. Knoppix can detect a USB digicam and pull pics out of it (using a file system metaphor - drag and drop etc). It works well with my minolta and I _did not_ have to install ANY special crap for camera - the run of the mill USB and Knoppix's PnP (it works man!).
I've even asked my uncle a neophyte at all this digital-cam/USB driver stuff - he boots into Knoppix and moves pics off to a disk and then uses Photoshop to dress it up a bit - and you're done!
So if digital cam is the only reason .... well there goes your last reason!
Show Bill the GATE - and slam it!
If you're PC/laptop does not have USB you can buy a PCI card that provides 1394(firewire) and a USB2 card for about $25-$30 (non-name brand).
Krishnan
If there's no food - Linux counts for NOUGHT! ... .... if you ain't got no bread - cake don't matter babe!
.... but it's all meant in right earnest! .... yuk yuk yuk :) :)
... - just learn to like it !!!
And just in case you're a C-- person
NOUGHT == 0!
Or to put it another way
A Tarantino-inspired-foul-mouthed-cursing dude's rant on a "open-source-crap solves world-poverty" type of opinion.
It's almost akin to "U.S.-style-f**ked-up-democracy (or duo-cracy) is the prescription for Iraq" kind of mono-mania that seems to plague the U.S. "farc-o-cracy" - or perhaps "demo-crazy" (with a Z not a C).
Sanity is becoming increasingly rare - specially with 6 BILLION (god-damned-gloriously-uncaring) people on this clod of parched Earth we call "home".
Could'nt resist the tempation to veer off on a politico-tangent
Mod me all you want - ye evil sons of bush the lesser (or is it Bush the LOSER).
In "teen-speak" ==> "same diff" !!
I finally get it!!
r.s.k.
Well I hope that conveyed my sentiments well enough.
Linux != life
Bush ==> MadApe
US != a democracy
and
RSK.
What if the Titans (i.e. the inhabitants of the satellite Titan) visit Earth, and decide to "liberate" us from our "solar centric" views. After all they Titans have managed to live, prosper, and flourish in a satellite with _far_ less sunlight than Earth. Of course they'd try to disabuse us of our notion of day&night, that light is better than darkness etc. Perhaps they would incarcerate our political "leaders" (or is it moronic buffoons) and kick their (dumb)asses. Oh how I wish that would happen .....
Most certainly hate the QFNs - I've been hunting for a pcb assembler who can assemble QFNs _and_ at a reasonable price (cannot afford $250 to solder 5 boards - I'm already down to a 3 digit bank balance(in US$)). SOIC would be a welcome change - but my design is aleady committed to the nvlsi chip - so would be very costly to back out now. Also nvlsi seems a simpler solution (fewer external components ==> less mistakes). So can you recommend a _cheap_ and efficient prototype pcb manuf guy/company/backdoor operation ? rsk.
Lots of companies have single-chip-2.4Ghz radio ICs. Like nvlsi.no or ChipCon. And NVLSI is better by a mile - quite literally a single chip 2.4GHz radio - make a sensor network in a few weeks .... if you find someone to help you solder the QFN pkg (goddamn SMD pkgs).Perhaps they bundle the ZigBee protocol within the IC ??
Hello All, This is a _very_ nice move. Would help a ton of students learn, and save them a ton of $$. Textbooks published in the US/UK - mostly U.S. - represent a signifcant portion of the curriculum in EE/CS/CompEngr. Texts like the "dragon books", or the OS books, or Taub & Schilling or Millman & Halkias, Benjamin Kuo (control systems) are worth their weight in gold - but still basically unaffordable in the _converted_ currency. Open/cheaper/free textbooks would be a welcome move in many countries. Yes they still need to get access to the www to download the book - but that is becoming easier by the day. RSK.
Well - booting from a floppy!! Wow! I can remember those days - running TurboC (TC/TCC) from "ramdisk" on a PC with 640KB!! Days where you could literally carry "your stuff" with you in a box of diskettes and maybe a couple of tapes.
.... I saw booting from a "ram disk" (i.e. basically RAM + some interfacing logic + battery pack - HOLY COW!!). Not to mention the host of "flash ram/disk/whatever" that's available now (non-trivial $$ but it's still a choice).
.... and leave pretty much nothing behind when you leave.
/tmp crap absolutely _nothing_.
.... :)
In comparison I think the set of choices available today simply is mind blowing!! Do you want to boot from the net, floppy + big disk, just a disk, USB, firewire + variants, and in the last 6 months or so
I love the set of choices - but what i really like is the ability to very niftily setup a realistic work env in a flash
I somehow seem to gravitate towards the ability to walk-in to a place talk to the guys, setup shop in 30 mins, work for a steady period and then just leave - leaving _nothing_ behind you! No boot partitions, no email files, no
Almost seems spooky - when you think back to the era of either Windows with mystery files/registry crap + who knows what else, or the "big iron" Unix boxes which took hours and hours to setup/configure and get productive on!
Now with a Knoppix plus "job/role specific software" - I'm in virtual heaven! This could really be a big deal for an IT shop or a contractor or a "coders on demand" outfit.
But maybe I'm making too much out of this
Thanks,
RSK.
Hello /.ers,
Is Vigyaan the start of a new trend in building "customized distros + bundled apps" by _vertical_. Not to sound like Mr.Marketeer - but by vertical i mean a narrow segment of users who care about say a handful of _must_have_apps_, along with the general utility/productivity apps.
I can imagine that having a specialized distro for the EDA/PCB/ design guys - that had say gEDA, pcb and few other "must_have_apps". This would be a total godsend for say someone who does pcb work for a living and can get right to the meat of his/her work and not have to worry about this that and the other. Specially with gEDA being somewhat of a monster to setup - since it has diff "sub-project" modules which all need to sync up to have something usable.
Anyway, EDA is vertical that I can think of - there must surely be MANY others - say something for the finance dudes/dudettes, or more such fields/areas.
Thanks,
RSK.
Hello All, I've upgraded a few things every so often - usually because of some security alert/bug etc. Recently I went to upgrade my Koss dvd player (the cheap stuff) KS3112. The Koss website posts a link http://www.sonigem.com/uploaded_files/software_arc hive/KS3112-2.zip
with instruction in a PDF within in the .zip file. The problem is that there no mention of WHY we need this upgrade, or what the problems are etc.
Does Koss really expect me to "upgrade" without telling me what the problem is ?? What if they "disable" some features ?!?
Am I just being paranoid ??
Well thats a good point - assembly is not that great for a complex data structure ..... but on the other hand a commercial db kernel like say Orcl - has a good deal of assembly code that deals with the most elementary stuff like say a spin-lock, or a latch etc - and also for some of the routines used to insert/update/mod a b-tree (and it's cousins). So essentially it's used to tweak a VERY heavily used codepath, thus shaving off a decent percentage of time.
Of course it'd be CRAZY to implement the whole B* in asm - might as well jump off a cliff!
Well sort of - an assembly programmer has to provide information to the assembler + linker to generate the actual code that will cooperate with the operating system - i.e. the OS determines to a large extent where the stack shoudl start, whats the default heap size/location, what order things are located in memory etc. This is no more than just "target'ing" your code for a specific OS - most embedded tools/guys do this each time they switch processors/micro-controllers.
I like the spirit - but selling for $$ is pretty damn hard. The average "small business" is also hard pressed for $$ - so they nickel and dime you to death. So you land up giving them software + consulting + "fixing their chaotic processes" all for a pittance. I do like the spirit of the idea - but have been burned by 2 kind'a-bad experiences.
Dude .... they can make your life SUCK ... and you'll make your life super-SUCK trying to mke their lives suck (and exactly who's life anyway the FBI's - it's an instituition dude and this is thier JOB!!). Just get smart and cut the freebies.
--
I intend to live my life .... hopefully in peace
Size might be a factor - and perhaps eventually cost