While Fedora 9 isn't an official PS3 distro it is one of the official Cell distro's. While I don't know of anything right now that has been updated for Cell I'm sure it has a newer kernel which has bug fixes and newer things for Cell. You can read more about Cell here
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/index.html?S_TACT=105AGX16&S_CMP=LP
I just bought a T61p a few months ago and wanted to get SUSE as a GNU/Linux user and developer. My problem was I wanted high end hardware and they only offered SUSE on the lower end models. I wanted a 15" screen they only offered SUSE on the 14" I wanted a NVIDIA graphics card for CUDA development and they don't sell SUSE with anything other then Intel. There problem was they limited you to one model and thats it. You could change the CPU or memory around but thats it. I ended up going with Vista Basic and never even booting into it Gentoo is on it now.
Here is what I sent to them in case someone doesn't feel like writing anything and just wants to send them something.
I was VERY disappointed to see that the DNC choice SilverLight as their way to stream the convention over the Internet. SilverLight is a Microsoft product that currently works mainly on Windows and sorta on Mac(none of my Mac friends could watch either). If the Democrats want to be the party of change don't use what ever technology you are told to use by your big supporters(Microsoft I guess), you should use technologies that are open and free(as in freedom and as in beer). A good choice would have been OGG(http://www.vorbis.com/) or MP4 both of which would have let users on any platform freely view without restricting how what people could do with the content. They would be able to download and show their friends their favorite parts. Those would even be free to you since their royalty free.
Please use a free platform in the future so all people can freely watch and enjoy all Democratic news.
Sincerely,
name
I just got hired by HP and I am awaiting for my contract to arrive in the mail. Its taking awhile so I hope its because it will be coming in a huge box like this.
I was able to get the proprietary C compiler to run under wine with make files. The school computer I had was way to locked down for development so I got it working under both Ubuntu(4 or 5) and Gentoo along with make files. Theres a number of posts here on how to do it. I also found a GPL compiler but didn't have the time to play around with it. I agree it was very locked down and I hated using it. I would have been very happy running embedded Linux on some low powered chip that had much more/better documentation available. They really control the base code they give you as well. I wanted to release my additions to the first code back into community and released it on a sourceforge page. While I admit I should have asked the NASA engineer(I was going to but I honestly forgot) the way he reacted to it was very surprising. I didn't respond to any posts on chiefdelphi because I was busy but appearntly he wanted me to take the code down. I ended up getting call from someone telling me that if I didn't take the code down within 12 hours my entire team would be banned from first. I took it down and asked why and was told that he didn't want anyone to confuse his code with mine thus forcing any team that wanted to use the base code(which is pretty much mandatory) to keep it closed source.
The time I was in FIRST everything was done in C but I know last year they added EasyC. I was told my old team ended up creating a C base and EasyC base and because they split there efforts so much neither code base worked that well. They have thus shifted all there efforts to EasyC(a decision the programming team as well as the mentors were against but the team coach thought it was better). They have told me its much harder and buggier then coding in C but then again they only have one or two programmers and the main focus is on marketing and building the robot not programming it.
The complaint you have about mentors building and programming the entire robot has been a complaint that has always been there. Luckily my team did let the students build and program and the three mentors we had were only mentors but I've seen some robots build in a corporate lab by engineers and not the team.
Its really sad I think the idea of FIRST is great but the way things are turning out is horrible. Proprietary software chosen by which company donates, programming will soon be no longer needed at all, and mentors build many teams robots with no repercussions.
I was the chief programmer on my team when I was in high school and every year I saw that programming became less and less important to the event and it was more engineering and marketing based. Its really disappointing and this year sounds like they just build a robot and drive it around, autonomous is becoming less and less important and its no longer 100% autonomous this year.
Honestly I was just playing Oblivion on wine 0.9.45 with all the settings all the way up and it ran fine. I when people complain that Windows games don't run well or at all in WINE when they never even try it.
I'm running Gentoo but I setup NTP and use pool.ntp.org and was curious about your post so I went to the site. Both my desktop and laptop are right on time.gov(to the second didn't test millisecond or anything) So maybe ubuntu uses a different time server but pool.ntp.org work 100%.
Thats complete bull shit. If Adobe opened up the Flash Player Adobe would be making the same if not more profit. Opening up the Flash Player and swf format will bring Flash to many new devices out of the box that currently have no Flash support(phones, PDAs, gaming consoles, etc) By doing this they are expanding the Adobe market. This would bring swf into the same world jpg is in. But now the world needs a industry standard tool to create swf files, so what are they going to use? O ya Adobe Flash Creator which is the only thing that makes Adobe money now anyway. A few open source/competitor products might come up just as they do to Photoshop but everyone will still want Adobe's Flash. Honestly its a win win situation for everything its just that corporate morons can't seem to understand how anything open and free could ever make them money and think that all they do is lose it.
What Dell and HP really need to do is install Linux on all, or at least most models of their computers. They currently only install Linux on a cheaper model that many power users(which is the majority of the Linux user base right now) don't want. We want the high end stuff. As long as the system has drivers for everything(free as in freedom or free as in beer), and most systems do, you should be able to select Linux just like you can select what ever version of Windows you want.
In college my calc professor wrote everything on his tablet and projected it on a large screen. Not only did it make it much easier to read then chalk but he saved the notes as a PDF and uploaded it to his website a few hours after class. I always took notes but sometimes I would miss something or miswrite something so looking at his notes helped a lot.
The problem with just using a PS3 is that its performance is in the SPE's not the PPU. To access to SPE's you have to use Cell API which is a bit complex and would require you to port your code. I'm currently doing it so I know;)
At my university the CS department, which I am an admin at, just switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu. On my desktop and laptop I run Gentoo. For the last four years or so I've ran Fedora on my grandparents computer and it gives me no trouble. I run Fedora while doing research because its very secure, easy to manage, and is the only officially supported distro by IBM for the Cell Processor.
If you neeed a server and want something really secure you should be pushing Redhat, CentOS(free version of Redhat), or Fedora. All very secure with SELinux enabled by default, and very mature.
I'm currently doing medical research and its all on Fedora.
In this case it would be best to use Thin clients. It would cut down the cost of having a powerful CPU and there would be no need for a hard disk. Power would also be conserved(which is important considering you are on battery on a plane). To top it all of no matter how much someone screws with their machine on a reboot everything is restored.
Basically if consumer A is trying to access files from the BBC make the connection really slow until the BBC pays up. Its why Internet Neutrality is needed.
My girl friend is building a new machine(Intel Q6600, evga T1, XFX 8800 GTS 640, OCZ 2gig) next week and then putting Gentoo stage 1(we know its unsupported, that makes it more fun) on it. Shes going to do this while I play with her Wii. I guess I should post a story on it?
According to wikipedia it was cracked but never released due to the DMCA. But even if it was cracked its kind of worthless when you want to build a PVR or play HD games(PS3) on an HD monitor which doesn't support HDCP. I'm against DRM because of the limits it puts on users but I really think HDCP is over used. I can at least understand why its used with HD movies but for Windows and the PS3 to use it seems insane to me.
When I looked it up the CableCard format is actually open(http://www.opencable.com/) and is actually in a standard PCMCIA format. What I was trying to create is a legal way(in the US) to build a myth box and have HDTV.
Last I looked Cable HDTV DRM still hasn't been cracked which sucks if you want to use a myth box. You can only get an HDMI with HDCP signal out which I also don't think has been cracked. I really hope they do crack it so I can watch the HDTV that I pay for on my computer whenever I want.
As a side note I once talked to my friend(who works for comcast) about driving a GNU/Linux driver for the CableCard. He told me it would be hard and was 100% sure we would be taken to court. The CableCard apparently looks to make sure the hardware using it is certified. Cracking that shouldn't be to hard but apparently the deal that at least comcast has with the content providers is that if there DRM is cracked they have 30days to fix it otherwise they have to recall all devices with the DRM capability and destroy them. Then they can issue new ones with newer DRM, otherwise they risk losing that content.
First off the Cell was created as a collaboration project between IBM, Sony, and Toshiba so Sony isn't the one that should be used. Second the Cell does not use shared memory at all. The Cell on the PS3 is split into 10 cores, two PPC cores(called the PPU) have 256MB of memory in the same way a multicore Intel or AMD system shares the total amount of between all of there cores. The Cell cores(called the SPE) each have there own 256kb memory to them selves. The reason the Cell processor is just a pain in the ass to code for is because of transferring memory to and from the SPE. This is just another SCO grabbing for money because they know there going out of business.
If the ATM made a mistake and didn't give you the correct amount of money the banks response would be it makes mistakes sometimes and since you can't prove that it didn't give you the correct amount(because the bank won't let you look at the ATM logs and security tape) you have to deal with it.
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While Fedora 9 isn't an official PS3 distro it is one of the official Cell distro's. While I don't know of anything right now that has been updated for Cell I'm sure it has a newer kernel which has bug fixes and newer things for Cell. You can read more about Cell here http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/index.html?S_TACT=105AGX16&S_CMP=LP
Vanilla I've only used suspend to RAM. It worked on the first try.
Works great for me.
I just bought a T61p a few months ago and wanted to get SUSE as a GNU/Linux user and developer. My problem was I wanted high end hardware and they only offered SUSE on the lower end models. I wanted a 15" screen they only offered SUSE on the 14" I wanted a NVIDIA graphics card for CUDA development and they don't sell SUSE with anything other then Intel. There problem was they limited you to one model and thats it. You could change the CPU or memory around but thats it. I ended up going with Vista Basic and never even booting into it Gentoo is on it now.
Here is what I sent to them in case someone doesn't feel like writing anything and just wants to send them something.
I was VERY disappointed to see that the DNC choice SilverLight as their way to stream the convention over the Internet. SilverLight is a Microsoft product that currently works mainly on Windows and sorta on Mac(none of my Mac friends could watch either). If the Democrats want to be the party of change don't use what ever technology you are told to use by your big supporters(Microsoft I guess), you should use technologies that are open and free(as in freedom and as in beer). A good choice would have been OGG(http://www.vorbis.com/) or MP4 both of which would have let users on any platform freely view without restricting how what people could do with the content. They would be able to download and show their friends their favorite parts. Those would even be free to you since their royalty free. Please use a free platform in the future so all people can freely watch and enjoy all Democratic news. Sincerely, name
I just got hired by HP and I am awaiting for my contract to arrive in the mail. Its taking awhile so I hope its because it will be coming in a huge box like this.
I was able to get the proprietary C compiler to run under wine with make files. The school computer I had was way to locked down for development so I got it working under both Ubuntu(4 or 5) and Gentoo along with make files. Theres a number of posts here on how to do it. I also found a GPL compiler but didn't have the time to play around with it. I agree it was very locked down and I hated using it. I would have been very happy running embedded Linux on some low powered chip that had much more/better documentation available. They really control the base code they give you as well. I wanted to release my additions to the first code back into community and released it on a sourceforge page. While I admit I should have asked the NASA engineer(I was going to but I honestly forgot) the way he reacted to it was very surprising. I didn't respond to any posts on chiefdelphi because I was busy but appearntly he wanted me to take the code down. I ended up getting call from someone telling me that if I didn't take the code down within 12 hours my entire team would be banned from first. I took it down and asked why and was told that he didn't want anyone to confuse his code with mine thus forcing any team that wanted to use the base code(which is pretty much mandatory) to keep it closed source. The time I was in FIRST everything was done in C but I know last year they added EasyC. I was told my old team ended up creating a C base and EasyC base and because they split there efforts so much neither code base worked that well. They have thus shifted all there efforts to EasyC(a decision the programming team as well as the mentors were against but the team coach thought it was better). They have told me its much harder and buggier then coding in C but then again they only have one or two programmers and the main focus is on marketing and building the robot not programming it. The complaint you have about mentors building and programming the entire robot has been a complaint that has always been there. Luckily my team did let the students build and program and the three mentors we had were only mentors but I've seen some robots build in a corporate lab by engineers and not the team. Its really sad I think the idea of FIRST is great but the way things are turning out is horrible. Proprietary software chosen by which company donates, programming will soon be no longer needed at all, and mentors build many teams robots with no repercussions.
I was the chief programmer on my team when I was in high school and every year I saw that programming became less and less important to the event and it was more engineering and marketing based. Its really disappointing and this year sounds like they just build a robot and drive it around, autonomous is becoming less and less important and its no longer 100% autonomous this year.
Honestly I was just playing Oblivion on wine 0.9.45 with all the settings all the way up and it ran fine. I when people complain that Windows games don't run well or at all in WINE when they never even try it.
I'm running Gentoo but I setup NTP and use pool.ntp.org and was curious about your post so I went to the site. Both my desktop and laptop are right on time.gov(to the second didn't test millisecond or anything) So maybe ubuntu uses a different time server but pool.ntp.org work 100%.
Thats complete bull shit. If Adobe opened up the Flash Player Adobe would be making the same if not more profit. Opening up the Flash Player and swf format will bring Flash to many new devices out of the box that currently have no Flash support(phones, PDAs, gaming consoles, etc) By doing this they are expanding the Adobe market. This would bring swf into the same world jpg is in. But now the world needs a industry standard tool to create swf files, so what are they going to use? O ya Adobe Flash Creator which is the only thing that makes Adobe money now anyway. A few open source/competitor products might come up just as they do to Photoshop but everyone will still want Adobe's Flash. Honestly its a win win situation for everything its just that corporate morons can't seem to understand how anything open and free could ever make them money and think that all they do is lose it.
What Dell and HP really need to do is install Linux on all, or at least most models of their computers. They currently only install Linux on a cheaper model that many power users(which is the majority of the Linux user base right now) don't want. We want the high end stuff. As long as the system has drivers for everything(free as in freedom or free as in beer), and most systems do, you should be able to select Linux just like you can select what ever version of Windows you want.
In college my calc professor wrote everything on his tablet and projected it on a large screen. Not only did it make it much easier to read then chalk but he saved the notes as a PDF and uploaded it to his website a few hours after class. I always took notes but sometimes I would miss something or miswrite something so looking at his notes helped a lot.
The problem with just using a PS3 is that its performance is in the SPE's not the PPU. To access to SPE's you have to use Cell API which is a bit complex and would require you to port your code. I'm currently doing it so I know ;)
At my university the CS department, which I am an admin at, just switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu. On my desktop and laptop I run Gentoo. For the last four years or so I've ran Fedora on my grandparents computer and it gives me no trouble. I run Fedora while doing research because its very secure, easy to manage, and is the only officially supported distro by IBM for the Cell Processor.
If you neeed a server and want something really secure you should be pushing Redhat, CentOS(free version of Redhat), or Fedora. All very secure with SELinux enabled by default, and very mature. I'm currently doing medical research and its all on Fedora.
In this case it would be best to use Thin clients. It would cut down the cost of having a powerful CPU and there would be no need for a hard disk. Power would also be conserved(which is important considering you are on battery on a plane). To top it all of no matter how much someone screws with their machine on a reboot everything is restored.
Basically if consumer A is trying to access files from the BBC make the connection really slow until the BBC pays up. Its why Internet Neutrality is needed.
For the longest time I thought that all ATI drivers sucked equally on all platforms. But I guess they suck even more on Windows then they do on Linux.
My girl friend is building a new machine(Intel Q6600, evga T1, XFX 8800 GTS 640, OCZ 2gig) next week and then putting Gentoo stage 1(we know its unsupported, that makes it more fun) on it. Shes going to do this while I play with her Wii. I guess I should post a story on it?
According to wikipedia it was cracked but never released due to the DMCA. But even if it was cracked its kind of worthless when you want to build a PVR or play HD games(PS3) on an HD monitor which doesn't support HDCP. I'm against DRM because of the limits it puts on users but I really think HDCP is over used. I can at least understand why its used with HD movies but for Windows and the PS3 to use it seems insane to me.
When I looked it up the CableCard format is actually open(http://www.opencable.com/) and is actually in a standard PCMCIA format. What I was trying to create is a legal way(in the US) to build a myth box and have HDTV.
Last I looked Cable HDTV DRM still hasn't been cracked which sucks if you want to use a myth box. You can only get an HDMI with HDCP signal out which I also don't think has been cracked. I really hope they do crack it so I can watch the HDTV that I pay for on my computer whenever I want. As a side note I once talked to my friend(who works for comcast) about driving a GNU/Linux driver for the CableCard. He told me it would be hard and was 100% sure we would be taken to court. The CableCard apparently looks to make sure the hardware using it is certified. Cracking that shouldn't be to hard but apparently the deal that at least comcast has with the content providers is that if there DRM is cracked they have 30days to fix it otherwise they have to recall all devices with the DRM capability and destroy them. Then they can issue new ones with newer DRM, otherwise they risk losing that content.
First off the Cell was created as a collaboration project between IBM, Sony, and Toshiba so Sony isn't the one that should be used. Second the Cell does not use shared memory at all. The Cell on the PS3 is split into 10 cores, two PPC cores(called the PPU) have 256MB of memory in the same way a multicore Intel or AMD system shares the total amount of between all of there cores. The Cell cores(called the SPE) each have there own 256kb memory to them selves. The reason the Cell processor is just a pain in the ass to code for is because of transferring memory to and from the SPE. This is just another SCO grabbing for money because they know there going out of business.
If the ATM made a mistake and didn't give you the correct amount of money the banks response would be it makes mistakes sometimes and since you can't prove that it didn't give you the correct amount(because the bank won't let you look at the ATM logs and security tape) you have to deal with it.