First thing I have to remind myself is warming up the pot with oil needs only a small amount of heat, oil gets hot really fast. Something to keep me from burning myself.
Ingredients for curry is stir-fried onions, carrots, potatoes, and a choice of meat, and other favourite veggies.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Monday, August 08, 2005
Diving schools in Ottawa
Kanata diving supply offers cheaper courses and is quite obviously, located in Kanata.
Burton's dive service is the other alternative located in Vanier/downtown Ottawa.
Burton's dive service is the other alternative located in Vanier/downtown Ottawa.
Sunday, July 31, 2005
DRTX initiative
Common objective for real time executive.
With the sophistication of microcontroller and the advance of modern communication stack and bus technology the environment a microcontroller is used now is ever more complex. The increasingly complex environment is fuelling the need for a context switching executive to handle background tasks.
In most embedded control environment, time-critical functions are likely to be shifted to hardware or interrupt driven routines, leaving the executive to do non-realtime tasks, nonetheless the response time is still the emphasis, the trade-off between response time and throughput is carefully considered.
The consideration of plugging in a real time executive to existing loop based task handling is taken into account.
Resource monitoring and instrumentation of the RTX is a key component of the design. Intregrating these functionalities to existing open source tool will be preferred over non-standard tools.
The inclusion of a standard IP stack, USB bus will form part of the DRTX framework.
With the sophistication of microcontroller and the advance of modern communication stack and bus technology the environment a microcontroller is used now is ever more complex. The increasingly complex environment is fuelling the need for a context switching executive to handle background tasks.
In most embedded control environment, time-critical functions are likely to be shifted to hardware or interrupt driven routines, leaving the executive to do non-realtime tasks, nonetheless the response time is still the emphasis, the trade-off between response time and throughput is carefully considered.
The consideration of plugging in a real time executive to existing loop based task handling is taken into account.
Resource monitoring and instrumentation of the RTX is a key component of the design. Intregrating these functionalities to existing open source tool will be preferred over non-standard tools.
The inclusion of a standard IP stack, USB bus will form part of the DRTX framework.
Friday, July 22, 2005
OLS 2005 - day 3
A late start for today since the topics aren't truely relevant to NMX.
But Ian Pratt's talk on Xen is the most spectacular our of them all.
Bumped into Marcelo today and introduce myself to him. He was chatting with Andrew Morton at the time.
But Ian Pratt's talk on Xen is the most spectacular our of them all.
Bumped into Marcelo today and introduce myself to him. He was chatting with Andrew Morton at the time.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
OLS 2005 - day 2
Today is an extremely productive day. I got to meet pretty much all the ppc embedded people. They are a great bunch. However I missed the CE forum's embedded BOF, it happened at the same time as the ppc BOF, but it was well worth the time.
Matt Porter's talk on RapidIO is excellent as well.
Rusty Russell's talk on nfsim is cool, he is truely another great figure.
Greg K-H is also an amazing driver person.
Murphy's embedded system seems to be a good idea. Should check out his paper when I have the time.
Profiling Java and pretty much anything else in Linux is done using OProfile now.
Matt Porter's talk on RapidIO is excellent as well.
Rusty Russell's talk on nfsim is cool, he is truely another great figure.
Greg K-H is also an amazing driver person.
Murphy's embedded system seems to be a good idea. Should check out his paper when I have the time.
Profiling Java and pretty much anything else in Linux is done using OProfile now.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
OLS 2005 - day 1
The spotlight of the first day is J. Corbet's Road map for the 2.6 kernel. It has interesting git talk and new features for the kernel. Very Informative.
The CELinux forum is holding an embedded BOF tomorrow sounds very interesting. Will also be meeting up with the ppc group tomorrow. XIP, and Power management will be excellent topics to be explored tomorrow.
Timesys is not doing particularly well as the real-time module is not making any sales and the notable exit of Jason M.
The bluetooth stack is a humongous beast to be honest. Intel's ACPI spec is another beast. Those two topics really make me feel like a small tiny potato.
Noted from today's display booth is that CELinux fixed the ARM compiler in thumb mode among other things. C++ is nowhere in sight for embedded computing.
The CELinux forum is holding an embedded BOF tomorrow sounds very interesting. Will also be meeting up with the ppc group tomorrow. XIP, and Power management will be excellent topics to be explored tomorrow.
Timesys is not doing particularly well as the real-time module is not making any sales and the notable exit of Jason M.
The bluetooth stack is a humongous beast to be honest. Intel's ACPI spec is another beast. Those two topics really make me feel like a small tiny potato.
Noted from today's display booth is that CELinux fixed the ARM compiler in thumb mode among other things. C++ is nowhere in sight for embedded computing.
Monday, June 13, 2005
Windows XP chinese file/directory names support
This one has me looking at the problem for hours. Waste of life to be honest. I truly believe why so many people curse Microsoft, until someone convince me otherwise.
As of today this is my conclusion...
As of today this is my conclusion...
- Asian fonts support is needed to view chinese characters in MSN Messenger and ICQ.
- NJStar viewer does not properly display chinese characters unless the Asian fonts support is unchecked.
- What's wierd is unchecking Asian fonts support does not make reading chinese chars in MSN Messenger go away. I found no documentation on the web that explains this behaviour, which to me seems very user unfriendly.
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Brian's web portal
Brian's web portal. His nifty picture collection augmented with great story telling.
Bruce Eckel's electronic books
Bruce is still the man for computer language tutorials. His collection now covers C++, Java and Python. This link will get you to his books page.
Embedded Linux
Craig Hollabaugh's Embedded Linux has evolved to a website
full of useful links and a EWiki. Haven't have time to check things out on the web site. In any case the link for downloading programs written in the book is still available. Will check it out when I have time.
Embedded Linux: Hardware, Software, and Interfacing
Craig Hollabaugh, Ph.D.
ISBN 0-672-32226-9
full of useful links and a EWiki. Haven't have time to check things out on the web site. In any case the link for downloading programs written in the book is still available. Will check it out when I have time.
Embedded Linux: Hardware, Software, and Interfacing
Craig Hollabaugh, Ph.D.
ISBN 0-672-32226-9
Thursday, June 02, 2005
More on Ottawa for OLS
Places for beer
Museums
- Heart & Crown
- D'Arcy Mcgee
- Alexander's Lower Deck
- Earl of Sussex
- Mother McGintey's
Museums
Monday, May 16, 2005
Ext2/3 access solutions for Windows
This is an up-to-date perspective on ext2/3 access solutions. Of course, there will inevitably other development that will pop up as I am writing, since this is still very much a very active topic.
Explore2fs. This is more popular with it's more user friendly documentation and FAQs.
LTOOLS. Very good documentation on Windows raw disk access issues.
More updates to come...
Explore2fs. This is more popular with it's more user friendly documentation and FAQs.
LTOOLS. Very good documentation on Windows raw disk access issues.
More updates to come...
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
TCPSAT announcement
TCPSAT announcement. This is what remains of the TCPSAT group. It is no longer active.
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Friday, December 03, 2004
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