That's nothing! In college, my compiler writing course was changed (to help "discourage ``re-use'' of previous years students' code") to writing a C compiler which used *PostScript* as its target language instead of XYZ machine code for PDQ processor.
We took the output of our compiler and "ran" it with ghostscript. It was actually quite fun. One of the harder parts was writing a suitable "libc" to "link" in for basic stdio.
NMT != NMSU (was: big schools ...the better prank
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Stealth Force Beta
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This story is about people from New Mexico Tech, not New Mexico State!
Get it right, bonehead!
I knew everybody in Stealth Force Beta and they were great people and truly helped the campus out with their pranks. I miss their company and reading these on spril.com brings back quite fond memories!
"harder to design and veriry"...
Boy,.... now THAT was the understatement of the century.....
Two problems:
The tools we have now to design and verify synchronous designs suck. Big companies such as Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor, etc. can't figure out how to do this right, what makes you think they can figure out the much tougher problem of async designs?
Great, build the tools "in-house"... yeah like my management is going to fund a team of EE's for the years it would take to make our own tools. Whatever....
We're stuck with synchronous design for a LONG time (at least in mainstream processor / ASIC).
This is an awesome "snack" to prepare you for "all-nighters" (something I haven't done since compiler class, but hey...).
Coming from the southwest, I always use very, very hot green chile--none of that "Rosarita" crap. Suit to your tastes.
Ingredients:
1) Nice amount of frozen french fries. Shoestring fries will work but larger "steak" fries work better.
2) Green chile "gravy" or sauce.
3) Lots of cheddar cheese!
Instructions:
Put the fries into the fryer to have it do its thing. As they are cooking you can either use canned Green Chile Enchilada sauce and doctor that up with more hot green chile or make it from scratch.
To make the sauce from scratch start with a small amount of water and get that boiling. Add some chicken stock or a chicken boullion cube and continue to boil. Add salt and about "40 cloves" (from Emeril... actually just a tbsp) of garlic along with your green chile. Boil this down until the "sauce" is starting to congeal while hot. If you need to you can add a SMALL amount of corn starch (you might need to pre-dissolve this into water before adding it or you'll get lumps... just like turkey gravy:). Let this cool a bit.
Once the fries are done, salt them immediately and put on plate. Drench all fries with the green chile sauce and cover with oodles of cheese. I like microwaving the plate for about 45 just to make sure the cheese melts all the way.
I had my wife using gnumeric long ago but when
it couldn't read in one of her more complicated
excel spread sheets worth a crap, she just dual
booted like she'd done previously. I haven't
touched gnumeric since. How has this improved?
By "complicated" I mean LOTS of borders, patterns,
formulas, graphs, etc.--not just two lists of
numbers....
To my (tin) ears, Bladeenc does a very good job at 160kbps.
I tinkered around with Vorbis, but "ogg123" (clone
of mpg123) locked my FreeBSD system up solid when
I tried to play a tune--so I scrapped it. Maybe
it's in better shape now.
I'll happily use Ogg. I just hope the folks at
Rio give us Firmware upgrades for the RioVolt
(that I just bought and love) to support MP3Pro
and Ogg Vorbis. I can dream, right?
Why has IBM completely ignored the potential to be
the "leader" in the one "killer-app" space that
Linux continues to struggle with? There's
GNOME Office, StarOffice, KOffice, etc. etc. etc.
All of these have their merits, but NONE of them
are as full featured and mature as the Lotus
Smart Suite (let's not start a flame war). Since
IBM has ported other Lotus tools to Linux, why
have they COMPLETED ignored the Office space?
Here are some questions for the Bob Bruce interview:
I know that plans about whose code goes to where are still currently "fuzzy" but will there be a concerted effort to create a "FAQ" page or other type of public information forum where plans can be unveiled and discussed as they happen (I mean something other than the freebsd-* mailing lists)?
Was BSDi in contact with Intel Corp. to do a port to Itanium (disclaimer: I work for Intel but in a completely separate division from MPG so I know about as much as the next guy on the street about Itanium)? If so will this port continue and be merged into FreeBSD? Will there be paid employees of BSDi that will help make this happen (or money shoved in the face of FreeBSD kernel hackers)? If BSDi was not in contact, will there now be a move to engage with a port to Itanium?
What are the "NDA-ish" items that will still remain closed-source? drivers for exotic hardware? Performance SMP code? What? Will these be options that are available "free" to non-profit organizations (like the use of softupdates), or will they be modules that must be purchased from the new corporation regardless of who you are?
I look forward to the good things that will come from this merger!
Well, hopefully this comment will be moderated up beyond the garbage that exists now.
For anybody starting out with FreeBSD, you should regularly visit the FreeBSD Diary site to look for information on how to accomplish something. Many many subjects are covered and most of them in sufficient detail to get you going.
Jordan mentioned that if testing goes OK, the images will be sent off for high volume replication tomorrow. Probably a few weeks until cdrom.com ships them then.
Yes, please do support cdrom.com. They do a wonderful job supporting FreeBSD! I've been CVSuping to -STABLE for months now but will continue my CD subscription for that purpose alone.
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"You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
That's nothing! In college, my compiler writing course was changed (to help "discourage ``re-use'' of previous years students' code") to writing a C compiler which used *PostScript* as its target language instead of XYZ machine code for PDQ processor.
We took the output of our compiler and "ran" it with ghostscript. It was actually quite fun. One of the harder parts was writing a suitable "libc" to "link" in for basic stdio.
Get it right, bonehead!
I knew everybody in Stealth Force Beta and they were great people and truly helped the campus out with their pranks. I miss their company and reading these on spril.com brings back quite fond memories!
- The tools we have now to design and verify synchronous designs suck. Big companies such as Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor, etc. can't figure out how to do this right, what makes you think they can figure out the much tougher problem of async designs?
- Great, build the tools "in-house"
... yeah like my management is going to fund a team of EE's for the years it would take to make our own tools. Whatever ....
We're stuck with synchronous design for a LONG time (at least in mainstream processor / ASIC).This is an awesome "snack" to prepare you for "all-nighters" (something I haven't done since compiler class, but hey ...).
... actually just a tbsp) of garlic along with your green chile. Boil this down until the "sauce" is starting to congeal while hot. If you need to you can add a SMALL amount of corn starch (you might need to pre-dissolve this into water before adding it or you'll get lumps ... just like turkey gravy :). Let this cool a bit.
:)
Coming from the southwest, I always use very, very hot green chile--none of that "Rosarita" crap. Suit to your tastes.
Ingredients:
1) Nice amount of frozen french fries. Shoestring fries will work but larger "steak" fries work better.
2) Green chile "gravy" or sauce.
3) Lots of cheddar cheese!
Instructions:
Put the fries into the fryer to have it do its thing. As they are cooking you can either use canned Green Chile Enchilada sauce and doctor that up with more hot green chile or make it from scratch.
To make the sauce from scratch start with a small amount of water and get that boiling. Add some chicken stock or a chicken boullion cube and continue to boil. Add salt and about "40 cloves" (from Emeril
Once the fries are done, salt them immediately and put on plate. Drench all fries with the green chile sauce and cover with oodles of cheese. I like microwaving the plate for about 45 just to make sure the cheese melts all the way.
Serves 1
I had my wife using gnumeric long ago but when
it couldn't read in one of her more complicated
excel spread sheets worth a crap, she just dual
booted like she'd done previously. I haven't
touched gnumeric since. How has this improved?
By "complicated" I mean LOTS of borders, patterns,
formulas, graphs, etc.--not just two lists of
numbers....
Peace.
...is for somebody to buy my RV ... I need the
cash for gEEk toys!!!!
To my (tin) ears, Bladeenc does a very good job at 160kbps.
I tinkered around with Vorbis, but "ogg123" (clone
of mpg123) locked my FreeBSD system up solid when
I tried to play a tune--so I scrapped it. Maybe
it's in better shape now.
I'll happily use Ogg. I just hope the folks at
Rio give us Firmware upgrades for the RioVolt
(that I just bought and love) to support MP3Pro
and Ogg Vorbis. I can dream, right?
Why has IBM completely ignored the potential to be
the "leader" in the one "killer-app" space that
Linux continues to struggle with? There's
GNOME Office, StarOffice, KOffice, etc. etc. etc.
All of these have their merits, but NONE of them
are as full featured and mature as the Lotus
Smart Suite (let's not start a flame war). Since
IBM has ported other Lotus tools to Linux, why
have they COMPLETED ignored the Office space?
actually it sounds like a verification NIGHTMARE.
ASICs are hard enough to validate today with the
few async pieces we have to put into them.
Asych logic may look nice but unless we get some
major breakthroughs in verification tools, don't
look for it anywhere near the future.
FreeBSD.
I look forward to the good things that will come from this merger!
Well, hopefully this comment will be moderated up beyond the
garbage that exists now.
For anybody starting out with FreeBSD, you should regularly visit
the FreeBSD Diary site to look for information on how to accomplish
something. Many many subjects are covered and most of them in
sufficient detail to get you going.
Jordan mentioned that if testing goes OK, the
images will be sent off for high volume
replication tomorrow. Probably a few weeks until
cdrom.com ships them then.
Yes, please do support cdrom.com. They do a wonderful job supporting
FreeBSD! I've been CVSuping to -STABLE for months now but will continue my CD
subscription for that purpose alone.
Great work all FreeBSD developers!