Re: On portable C programming

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/08/2009 08:20 AM, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2009 00:06, Ben Scott wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:31 PM, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: So what's the recommended way to do this? I dunno that there really is any really good way. Once created,

Re: On portable C programming

2009-01-09 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Friday 09 January 2009 07:47, Jerry Feldman wrote: There are actually systems that do this such as ASN 1 == *X.680. Essentially, the way it works is that everything transmitted is in TLD (type, length data) format. An integer, for instance would have a type code (one for 16-bit, 1 for

Re: On portable C programming (was: libraw1394 struct layouts...)

2009-01-09 Thread VirginSnow
From: Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:33:33 -0500 My outline over-complicated the solution - no pointer array is needed. If the addresses of the structs are be obtained from the kernel while it is running, the data can be sent to or taken from them to an

Re: On portable C programming (was: libraw1394 struct layouts...)

2009-01-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:35 AM, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: I have to admit I don't understand how this is supposed to work. You haven't posted any URLs or project names for me to Google. :) Or even source code snippets. Posting code to this list is allowed, if that's what Jim Kuzdrall

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 15 Jan, Dinner at Martha's

2009-01-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:38 AM, kenta ke...@guster.net wrote: Actually, it would be worthwhile to have a discussion at the coming meeting about this assuming that people show up. Seconded. Jim, perhaps sending an addendum announcement stating that meeting coordination and other

Inspiron Mini 9?

2009-01-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
Does anyone have one of these wee beasts? I'm headed to Hawaii for a week in February and want to take something that's even smaller and lighter than my Thinkpad X61 (which is already pretty small). I'd like to hear your thoughts. I want to use it to: - charge various USB devices (i.e.

Re: Inspiron Mini 9?

2009-01-09 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 22:21 -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: Does anyone have one of these wee beasts? I'm headed to Hawaii for a week in February and want to take something that's even smaller and lighter than my Thinkpad X61 (which is already pretty small). I'd like to hear your thoughts.

RE: Inspiron Mini 9?

2009-01-09 Thread Pam McLeod
We have two of these Dell Mini 9's (XP and Ubuntu) at school and are about to purchase ~65 of the Linux version for a grant-funded netbook project for our 4th grade. I have compared these to the Acer Aspire One and the ASUS EEE 901. The Lenovo S10 wasn't out yet when I did my demos The