Comment Taxes (Score 1) 651
More than housing.
Comment Didn't they stored passwords crypted?! (Score 1) 123
As the Unix does since
Seriously, WTF?!
- Hubert
Comment In 1996 this was done ... (Score 4, Informative) 254
... by the Harvest Project, which installed several local data collectors, and which then added a search engine over all those collectors. The cache system added in between is still known today: Squid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_project
- Hubert
Comment HMI in automotive is not new (Score 5, Informative) 215
I don't know for Ford, but German automotive manufacturers have dealt with human/machine interfacing for a very long time,
and in the process have not focussed on software/screen only, but also added many more interfacing methods like buttons, dials, cameras facing into the car and outside.
Names that come to mind are car manufacturers (Audi, BMW, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz) and their suppliers (Continental, Hella, Vector Informatik).
The whole topic has been covered not by computer science or engineers, but very much by information science.
So maybe you want to have a look there if you are into this topic.
Keywords: driver assistance, hmi, navigation systems
- Hubert
Comment mmm, R (Score 1) 64
nuff said! - try it!
Comment Terminals with graphics capabilities... (Score 1) 203
... were just the next logical step beyond simple ASCII terminals,
and before a decent graphics protocol (X, etc.).
For some background/data on how those things fit together, see here:
http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/ttys.html
Enjoy!
- Hubert
Comment lame (Score 1) 405
just that.
There was enough time to fix this an several other updates were pushed out since this happened last,
so i'm not impressed by the job Apple does here.
- Hubert
Comment mmm, R! (Score 1) 91
R is a very impressive, mature program that does a hell of a job.
I best liked connecting R data sets to a PostgreSQL database
for my PhD thesis, and then doing statistical data on SQL selections
without bothing about the SQL bits any more.
Also, I see lots of universities in Germany step up and teach R, which I think is good.
- Hubert
Comment Agorum, anyone? (Score 1) 152
I've wondered about what document management system to use in an ISO context the other day, and was recommended Agorum (www.agorum.com).
Does anyone have experiences with that? Good / no good?
- Hubert
Comment Congratulations, but ... (Score 0) 37
... what exactly is it? I've missed some striking reason to dig deeper on the webpage. Some showcase with examples, screenshots etc. may be in order to get people look into it. Also, an answer to the question how it relates to Nagios may be nice.
Keep up the good work!
- Hubert
Comment it's too small (Score 1) 343
own: 1
wear: 0
largest size was/is L and that's too small.
Comment Re:ALIX (Score 1) 697
I use an Alix board too, and it works fine with NetBSD 5.0/i386.
I don't know the power consumption, but this may be available somewhere on the website: www.pcengines.ch.
- Hubert
Comment No Windows-keys on this 20yr old Olivetti Keyboard (Score 1) 939
I'm using an ~20 years old Olivetti Keyboard.
It's pretty heavy with excellent feeling.
It's connector was soldered into a PS/2 connector,
which is nowadays connected to a usb-converter,
going straight into my Mac Mini (running Mac OS X).
All this predates "Windows-Keys" and the like by
a bunch of years. The missing Apple command-key
is mapped to caps-lock.
- Hubert
Submission + - Ten years of pkgsrc - Interviews (netbsd.org)
hubertf writes: "10 years ago — on October 3rd 1997 — the pkgsrc software management system was created by Alistair Crooks and Hubert Feyrer. pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection, was intended primarily as a packaging system for NetBSD. Derived from the FreeBSD Ports system, pkgsrc became a success story. Today, pkgsrc is a cross-platform framework, running on the BSDs, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, many Unix derivatives, and even on QNX and Windows.
Mark Weinem has made inverviews with lots of developers of pkgsrc and related projects, among them the original pkgsrc creators, but also users and developers of pkgsrc and related projects, like the FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports collection as well as MacPorts.
Overall, this article is a fine lesson in history of source based packaging system that also goes much beyond pkgsrc itself."
Mark Weinem has made inverviews with lots of developers of pkgsrc and related projects, among them the original pkgsrc creators, but also users and developers of pkgsrc and related projects, like the FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports collection as well as MacPorts.
Overall, this article is a fine lesson in history of source based packaging system that also goes much beyond pkgsrc itself."
Submission + - Neo1973 (=OpenMoko) phone booting NetBSD/(evb)arm (feyrer.de)
hubertf writes: "OpenMoko is a project that runs Open Source software on Open hardware. So far, only Linux is available, but this is changing now:
Noud de Brouwer has
posted
about his success running NetBSD on qemu-neo1973,
which emulates the hardware that the
OpenMoko project
uses.
The post includes links to a package for 'mkimage', which, according to the packages' DESCR file, ``adds a header to a kernel image with information and checksums for the u-boot bootloader used in embedded systems'', instructions on how to derivea NEO1973/OpenMoko port for NetBSD from the existing evbarm/SMDK2410 port, and discussion about running OpenMoko under Qemu."
The post includes links to a package for 'mkimage', which, according to the packages' DESCR file, ``adds a header to a kernel image with information and checksums for the u-boot bootloader used in embedded systems'', instructions on how to derivea NEO1973/OpenMoko port for NetBSD from the existing evbarm/SMDK2410 port, and discussion about running OpenMoko under Qemu."
