Re: Introduction
On 20/02/18 06:57, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: Hi! My credentials are in electrical engineering and just before I retired (almost three year ago) I was reading through the Intel spec's on the latest chip sets ; as I needed to understand physical data flow bottlenecks. From early childhood I was not only interested in electronics, but in electronic computers. This stuff is something I do because I really like it, not because it was my profession. I have programmed in many languages. There are several I only wrote one program with just to explore the language. There are some examples below. Sometimes I am still amazed by the number of new languages being published. After I look them over though I laugh at the huge similarities to the ones the pre-existed them. My first experience as a student was with with Fortran and SPS on an old IBM 1620 I found “laying around”. After that I wrote a fair amount of machine code (hex) and some BAL for IBM 360. After I was working and microprocessors became available, there weren't any programmers around for them; so the electrical engineers who implemented the processors in hardware also wrote the software. A fact I was very happy about. I wrote hex code for the Motorola 6800 and later I did a little for the 68000. I also wrote a fair amount of code in Pascal on a VAX computer. Pascal was all they had on that machine and they didn't want to buy another license. Later when PCs became available in a form similar to those commonly in use today, I wrote useful code in Smalltalk, Lisp, Java. The first two were connected to an AI project I worked on. The Java was control code for a mechanism not for web pages. In the 1980s I was sent by one of the companies I worked for to take C classes. I took all classes, but then the project was canceled; so I never had a chance to use it. Things I learned in the C classes, like the ease with which memory leaks were created, lead be to have a strong aversion for it . I never pursued C after that. Since I abandon Windows, about F16 ago, and started using Fedora, I've been writing in Python. I've always held the opinion that code should be well organized and easy to follow. After I wrote my first thousand lines of python I went and got the style guide and found to my satisfaction that my code, with one exception was compliant. I've never taken classes in Python; so I won't present myself as being ready to start writing Python for Fedora. Though I just purchased a course from the Teaching Company that uses Python for all the code work. I haven't started it yet so I can say more about it. My tiny contributions to Fedora so far has been running the canned regression tests on Linux. I got a FAS account so I could submit the results, but since I haven't joined a group yet that was about all I could do. As I was think further about it it seemed like testing would be a good place to start. ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Hi, Am not officially connected with Fedora nor Red Hat. So this is pure my personal opinion! I think with your low level skills with Intel Chip sets, that you would be well place to review kernel code relating to such - if you can overcome your aversion to C. You might like to look at http://lkml.org - am not a kernel hacker, so can't advise further... The first three languages I got paid to use were FORTRAN IV, COBOL, and ICL 4/72 Assembler. Cheers, Gavin ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Fedora 27 updates-testing report
The following Fedora 27 Security updates need testing: Age URL 13 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-969328b17c jhead-3.00-7.fc27 6 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-5562b6e2c0 golang-1.9.4-1.fc27 5 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-b22d46eabb libvirt-3.7.0-4.fc27 5 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-9d6a122887 sblim-sfcb-1.4.9-9.fc27 5 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-da6f76b446 mupdf-1.12.0-5.fc27 4 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-8d544ee879 zziplib-0.13.68-1.fc27 4 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-b152c791cc mingw-OpenEXR-2.2.0-7.fc27 4 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ee417c4b28 suricata-4.0.4-1.fc27 3 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-b127e58641 patch-2.7.6-3.fc27 3 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-1ec1cd6db3 bro-2.5.3-1.fc27 1 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-433d2dc3c7 irssi-1.0.7-1.fc27 1 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-5aec14e125 exim-4.90.1-2.fc27 1 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-2331a462fb milkytracker-1.01.00-1.fc27 1 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c6cb18d057 seamonkey-2.49.2-2.fc27 The following Fedora 27 Critical Path updates have yet to be approved: Age URL 14 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-3082496e05 pungi-4.1.22-2.fc27 12 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c46fa8e392 perl-5.26.1-403.fc27 6 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-fdb6b936e4 nss-3.35.0-1.1.fc27 nss-softokn-3.35.0-1.0.fc27 nss-util-3.35.0-1.0.fc27 nspr-4.18.0-1.fc27 6 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-d73421f7e6 pcre2-10.31-1.fc27 6 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c9b5e3f68c libguestfs-1.38.0-1.fc27 5 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-b22d46eabb libvirt-3.7.0-4.fc27 5 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-b9f662dec5 iproute-4.15.0-1.fc27 4 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-a6b436d186 sssd-1.16.0-7.fc27 4 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-11fbc105f1 fwupd-1.0.5-1.fc27 4 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c6489812c9 qt5-qtbase-5.9.4-4.fc27 3 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-cd541fc70d glusterfs-3.12.6-2.fc27 3 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-20611f7cb1 breeze-icon-theme-5.43.0-1.fc27 extra-cmake-modules-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-attica-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-baloo-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-bluez-qt-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-frameworkintegration-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-kactivities-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-kactivities-stats-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-kapidox-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-karchive-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kauth-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kbookmarks-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-kcmutils-5.43.0-3.fc27 kf5-kcodecs-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kcompletion-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kconfig-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kconfigwidgets-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kcoreaddons-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kcrash-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kdbusaddons-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kdeclarative-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-kded-5.43.0-3.fc27 kf5-kdelibs4support-5.43.0-3.fc27 kf5-kdesignerplugin-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-kdesu-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kdewebkit-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-kdnssd-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kdoctools-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kemoticons-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kfilemetadata-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kglobalaccel-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kguiad dons-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-khtml-5.43.0-3.fc27 kf5-ki18n-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kiconthemes-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kidletime-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kimageformats-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kinit-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-kio-5.43.0-3.fc27 kf5-kirigami2-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kitemmodels-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kitemviews-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kjobwidgets-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kjs-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kjsembed-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kmediaplayer-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-knewstuff-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-knotifications-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-knotifyconfig-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-kpackage-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kparts-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-kpeople-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kplotting-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kpty-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kross-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-krunner-5.43.0-3.fc27 kf5-kservice-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-ktexteditor-5.43.0-3.fc27 kf5-ktextwidgets-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kunitconversion-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kwallet-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kwayland-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kwidgetsaddons-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kwindowsystem-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kxmlgui-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-kxmlrpcclient-5.43.0-2.fc27 kf5-modemmanager-qt-5.43.0- 1.fc27 kf5-networkmanager-qt-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-plasma-5.43.0-3.fc27 kf5-prison-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-purpose-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-solid-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-sonnet-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-syntax-highlighting-5.43.0-1.fc27 kf5-threadweaver-5.43.0-1.fc27 oxygen-icon-theme-5.43.0-1.fc27 qqc2-desktop-style-5.43.0-1.fc27 3 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-b127e58641 patch-2.7.6-3.fc27 1
Fedora 26 updates-testing report
The following Fedora 26 Security updates need testing: Age URL 207 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-ccb5c8d1e7 docker-distribution-2.6.2-1.git48294d9.fc26 100 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-3915878e18 ldns-1.7.0-4.fc26 45 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ccef1ced42 gimp-2.8.22-3.fc26 39 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-66b885ae3c keycloak-httpd-client-install-0.8-1.fc26 38 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-0db545e976 ruby-2.4.3-86.fc26 26 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-b166805347 transmission-2.92-12.fc26 26 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-4f8a78a5ef squid-4.0.23-1.fc26 19 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c7c6160e65 thunderbird-52.6.0-1.fc26 16 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ac2e276c76 tomcat-8.0.49-1.fc26 13 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-fff755ee8e jhead-3.00-7.fc26 6 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-6f08b79a09 golang-1.8.7-1.fc26 6 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c54ced412e gcab-1.1-1.fc26 6 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-b3de6c389e torbrowser-launcher-0.2.9-1.fc26 5 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-f97cb1c9b0 krb5-1.15.2-7.fc26 5 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-4367d984c1 sblim-sfcb-1.4.9-7.fc26 4 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-e23d2dae46 mingw-poppler-0.52.0-6.fc26 4 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-f5d2f4ec0d mingw-OpenEXR-2.2.0-6.fc26 4 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-5cdc56766f firefox-58.0.2-1.fc26 3 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-71fac70309 patch-2.7.6-3.fc26 3 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c1b8e0176c freetype-2.7.1-10.fc26 1 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-db5041e661 bro-2.5.3-1.fc26 1 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-cbc52e8812 irssi-1.0.7-1.fc26 1 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-25a7ba3cb6 exim-4.90.1-2.fc26 1 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-7d90e269a4 milkytracker-1.01.00-1.fc26 1 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-b2d76ba048 seamonkey-2.49.2-2.fc26 The following Fedora 26 Critical Path updates have yet to be approved: Age URL 19 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c7c6160e65 thunderbird-52.6.0-1.fc26 14 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-f0ad9c0f9c pungi-4.1.22-2.fc26 9 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-27cb0cd918 ibus-1.5.17-6.fc26 6 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-bc14e16004 nss-3.35.0-1.0.fc26 nss-softokn-3.35.0-1.0.fc26 nss-util-3.35.0-1.0.fc26 nspr-4.18.0-1.fc26 6 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-3e5558f0ff vim-8.0.1505-1.fc26 6 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c54ced412e gcab-1.1-1.fc26 6 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-9ef65cf422 perl-5.24.3-396.fc26 5 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-6fe397a796 lxpanel-0.9.3-4.D20180109git2ddf8dfc.fc26 5 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ddd1e5c30a iproute-4.14.1-5.fc26 5 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-f97cb1c9b0 krb5-1.15.2-7.fc26 4 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-85dd2a6ff9 curl-7.53.1-15.fc26 4 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-562467e141 sssd-1.16.0-6.fc26 4 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-5cdc56766f firefox-58.0.2-1.fc26 3 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c1b8e0176c freetype-2.7.1-10.fc26 3 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-5a2e230b9d net-snmp-5.7.3-26.fc26 3 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-9d8876b830 samba-4.6.13-0.fc26 3 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-b7b864a29e breeze-icon-theme-5.43.0-1.fc26 extra-cmake-modules-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-attica-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-baloo-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-bluez-qt-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-frameworkintegration-5.43.0-2.fc26 kf5-kactivities-5.43.0-2.fc26 kf5-kactivities-stats-5.43.0-2.fc26 kf5-kapidox-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-karchive-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-kauth-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-kbookmarks-5.43.0-2.fc26 kf5-kcmutils-5.43.0-3.fc26 kf5-kcodecs-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-kcompletion-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-kconfig-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-kconfigwidgets-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-kcoreaddons-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-kcrash-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-kdbusaddons-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-kdeclarative-5.43.0-2.fc26 kf5-kded-5.43.0-3.fc26 kf5-kdelibs4support-5.43.0-3.fc26 kf5-kdesignerplugin-5.43.0-2.fc26 kf5-kdesu-5.43.0-1.fc26 kf5-kdewebkit-5.43.0-2.fc26 kf5-kdnssd-5.43.0-1.fc26
Introduction
Hi! My credentials are in electrical engineering and just before I retired (almost three year ago) I was reading through the Intel spec's on the latest chip sets ; as I needed to understand physical data flow bottlenecks. From early childhood I was not only interested in electronics, but in electronic computers. This stuff is something I do because I really like it, not because it was my profession. I have programmed in many languages. There are several I only wrote one program with just to explore the language. There are some examples below. Sometimes I am still amazed by the number of new languages being published. After I look them over though I laugh at the huge similarities to the ones the pre-existed them. My first experience as a student was with with Fortran and SPS on an old IBM 1620 I found “laying around”. After that I wrote a fair amount of machine code (hex) and some BAL for IBM 360. After I was working and microprocessors became available, there weren't any programmers around for them; so the electrical engineers who implemented the processors in hardware also wrote the software. A fact I was very happy about. I wrote hex code for the Motorola 6800 and later I did a little for the 68000. I also wrote a fair amount of code in Pascal on a VAX computer. Pascal was all they had on that machine and they didn't want to buy another license. Later when PCs became available in a form similar to those commonly in use today, I wrote useful code in Smalltalk, Lisp, Java. The first two were connected to an AI project I worked on. The Java was control code for a mechanism not for web pages. In the 1980s I was sent by one of the companies I worked for to take C classes. I took all classes, but then the project was canceled; so I never had a chance to use it. Things I learned in the C classes, like the ease with which memory leaks were created, lead be to have a strong aversion for it . I never pursued C after that. Since I abandon Windows, about F16 ago, and started using Fedora, I've been writing in Python. I've always held the opinion that code should be well organized and easy to follow. After I wrote my first thousand lines of python I went and got the style guide and found to my satisfaction that my code, with one exception was compliant. I've never taken classes in Python; so I won't present myself as being ready to start writing Python for Fedora. Though I just purchased a course from the Teaching Company that uses Python for all the code work. I haven't started it yet so I can say more about it. My tiny contributions to Fedora so far has been running the canned regression tests on Linux. I got a FAS account so I could submit the results, but since I haven't joined a group yet that was about all I could do. As I was think further about it it seemed like testing would be a good place to start. ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Introduction
Hi! My credentials are in electrical engineering and just before I retired (almost three year ago) I was reading through the Intel spec's on the latest chip sets ; as I needed to understand physical data flow bottlenecks. From early childhood I was not only interested in electronics, but in electronic computers. This stuff is something I do because I really like it, not because it was my profession. I have programmed in many languages. There are several I only wrote one program with just to explore the language. There are some examples below. Sometimes I am still amazed by the number of new languages being published. After I look them over though I laugh at the huge similarities to the ones the pre-existed them. My first experience as a student was with with Fortran and SPS on an old IBM 1620 I found “laying around”. After that I wrote a fair amount of machine code (hex) and some BAL for IBM 360. After I was working and microprocessors became available, there weren't any programmers around for them; so the electrical engineers who implemented the processors in hardware also wrote the software. A fact I was very happy about. I wrote hex code for the Motorola 6800 and later I did a little for the 68000. I also wrote a fair amount of code in Pascal on a VAX computer. Pascal was all they had on that machine and they didn't want to buy another license. Later when PCs became available in a form similar to those commonly in use today, I wrote useful code in Smalltalk, Lisp, Java. The first two were connected to an AI project I worked on. The Java was control code for a mechanism not for web pages. In the 1980s I was sent by one of the companies I worked for to take C classes. I took all classes, but then the project was canceled; so I never had a chance to use it. Things I learned in the C classes, like the ease with which memory leaks were created, lead be to have a strong aversion for it . I never pursued C after that. Since I abandon Windows, about F16 ago, and started using Fedora, I've been writing in Python. I've always held the opinion that code should be well organized and easy to follow. After I wrote my first thousand lines of python I went and got the style guide and found to my satisfaction that my code, with one exception was compliant. I've never taken classes in Python; so I won't present myself as being ready to start writing Python for Fedora. Though I just purchased a course from the Teaching Company that uses Python for all the code work. I haven't started it yet so I can say more about it. My tiny contributions to Fedora so far has been running the canned regression tests on Linux. I got a FAS account so I could submit the results, but since I haven't joined a group yet that was about all I could do. As I was think further about it it seemed like testing would be a good place to start. ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
