Re: First ManchLUG Meeting

2010-08-25 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I'm not advocating any particular approach; just trying to stir some discussion. One thing PySIG does that may help counter this is to have a block of time explicitly scheduled for general QA, newbies, and gotchas. As I recall, they do that at 6:30 and any formal presentation starts at 7 PM, and

Professional GCC support?

2010-08-25 Thread Tyson Sawyer
An excerpt from an email exchange where I work: A tool I just found out they spent $9k on (two floating licenses) called IAR says this about language support: _http://www.iar.com/website1/1.0.1.0/50/1/_ Language and standards The C programming language as

Re: Professional GCC support?

2010-08-25 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org writes: An excerpt from an email exchange where I work: A tool I just found out they spent $9k on (two floating licenses) called IAR says this about language support: _http://www.iar.com/website1/1.0.1.0/50/1/_ [...] Obviously there is also GCC for ARM

OT: Selling domain names

2010-08-25 Thread Larry Cook
I'm looking to sell some domain names. I've never done this before and would like advice from those who have experience at this. My two requirements are to get a fair price and to be sure to get paid. It appears there are multiple websites for selling and buying. I found a few that would

Re: OT: Selling domain names

2010-08-25 Thread Ray Cote
Hi Larry: No advice on where to sell, or for how much, but if you do end up selling them yourself, I recommend using a third-party escrow service for transferring the domain. I've used Escrow.com numerous times in the past and been very happy with their service/price. --ray - Original

Re: Professional GCC support?

2010-08-25 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org wrote: An excerpt from an email exchange where I work: A tool I just found out they spent $9k on (two floating licenses) called IAR says this about language support: Obviously there is also GCC for ARM processors. I was

Re: Professional GCC support?

2010-08-25 Thread Tyson Sawyer
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: Once upon a time, Cygnus Solutions provided support.  They got bought by Red Hat and I'd imagine Red Hat will sell support.  Cygnus also developed Cygwin and the embedded eCOS OS. It looks like Cygnus was what I am looking

Boot/console question.

2010-08-25 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I've noticed on the occasions when I've got graphics card issues that it's (usually) not just X where the problem occurs; instead, it (seems to be) when the fonts re-initialize during boot. (Of course, since the screen goes blank immediately thereafter, it's a bit hard to pin down. Trying to

Re: Boot/console question.

2010-08-25 Thread Michael ODonnell
I've sometimes been able to work past video-related problems during startup by mentioning nomodeset on the kernel command line. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Boot/console question.

2010-08-25 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: I've always managed to work past this, but I'm damn curious to know if it can be avoided entirely, e.g., if one of the vga=ask options might help out, or somesuch. The initscripts of modern distros all seem to reset the

Re: Professional GCC support?

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Bilow
For ARM, CodeSourcery: http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/platforms.html They use the GNU tool chain to target EABI (bare metal), uClinux, or GNU/Linux. -- Mike On 2010-08-25 10:58, Tyson Sawyer wrote: An excerpt from an email exchange where I work: A tool I just found out they spent

Re: Boot/console question.

2010-08-25 Thread Michael ODonnell
I've always managed to work past this, but I'm damn curious to know if it can be avoided entirely, e.g., if one of the vga=ask options might help out, or somesuch. The initscripts of modern distros all seem to reset the video mode and/or font during boot. I suspect it's something to do

Re: Professional GCC support?

2010-08-25 Thread Tyson Sawyer
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Mike Bilow mik...@colossus.bilow.com wrote: For ARM, CodeSourcery: http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/platforms.html They use the GNU tool chain to target EABI (bare metal), uClinux, or GNU/Linux. Hmmm If they can support AVR cores or I can get us to ditch

Re: First ManchLUG Meeting

2010-08-25 Thread Ted Roche
On 08/24/2010 10:09 PM, Chip Marshall wrote: Good evening, Just wanted to fire off a quick e-mail to thank everyone who came out tonight to the first (hopefully of many) ManchLUG meeting. I was pleasantly surprised by the turn out, and hope everyone had a good time. For next month, I'd

Re: Professional GCC support?

2010-08-25 Thread mikebw
CodeSourcery also has an open source lite version you can download for free from their web site. An ARM embedded system can run a full distribution of Linux, such as Debian, with sufficient hardware and power resources. -- Mike Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:27

Re: Professional GCC support?

2010-08-25 Thread Dan Jenkins
Tyson Sawyer writes: Obviously there is also GCC for ARM processors. I was told IAR was purchased because management wanted to make sure nothing was holding upname in his work with the SAM7x camera controller. I'm told we can get support from IAR when we pay that much, and this