Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
Greetings Bruce, Still thinking about your problem... On Sunday 11 October 2009 17:01, Bruce Labitt wrote: I did do an experiment that had curious results. Instead of sending double precision binary data, I sent single precision or 'float'. I was expecting to halve my transmission time,

Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-13 Thread Ralph A. Mack
Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net mailto:bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote: What I'm trying to do: Optimizer for a radar power spectral density problem Problem: FFTs required in optimization loop take too long on current workstation for the optimizer to even be viable.

Re: Open Source Photography

2009-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ted Roche writes: I think I saw this written up in one of ACM's magazines, but those don't get a lot of traffic. NPR did a story on a group at Stanford doing computational photography - camera hardware with a Linux backend. Another interesting thing is CHDK:

Re: Open Source Photography

2009-10-13 Thread Ted Roche
On 10/13/2009 08:41 AM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Another interesting thing is CHDK: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK Regards, --kevin For folks just tuning in, the Canon Hack Development Kit is an add-on to the firmware for the Canon Powershot series of cameras that offers lots of

Re: Open Source Photography

2009-10-13 Thread Lori Nagel
I don't know what model you have, but there were a few models that apparently had some kind of chip in them, that gave out when it got a little humid or something. Cannon paid the postage for my camera to be shipped and mailed back to me so it was fixed. I looked it up on the internet one

Re: Open Source Photography

2009-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ted Roche writes: For folks just tuning in, the Canon Hack Development Kit is an add-on to the firmware for the Canon Powershot series of cameras that offers lots of extensions to the functionality. Sadly, my Powershot passed away a while ago, or I'd have fun testing this stuff. I have

Suggestions - embedded Linux

2009-10-13 Thread Drew Van Zandt
So, I've convinced my company to at least entertain the idea of using embedded Linux on one of our upcoming projects, but I'm in need of some research. I'm doing my own, of course, but I thought some of you might have suggestions. We would spin our own PCB with CPU etc., and I'm trying to figure

Re: Suggestions - embedded Linux

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Nolin
--- On Tue, 10/13/09, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com wrote: From: Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com Subject: Suggestions - embedded Linux To: GNHLUG gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 10:36 AM So, I've convinced my company to at least entertain

Re: Suggestions - embedded Linux

2009-10-13 Thread Alan Johnson
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.comwrote: So, I've convinced my company to at least entertain the idea of using embedded Linux on one of our upcoming projects, but I'm in need of some research. I'm doing my own, of course, but I thought some of you might

Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-13 Thread bruce . labitt
gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org wrote on 10/13/2009 08:13:12 AM: Greetings Bruce, Still thinking about your problem... Well, thank you for that! On Sunday 11 October 2009 17:01, Bruce Labitt wrote: I did do an experiment that had curious results. Instead of sending double

Re: Suggestions - embedded Linux

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Nolin
--- On Tue, 10/13/09, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com wrote: From: Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com Subject: Suggestions - embedded Linux To: GNHLUG gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 10:36 AM So, I've convinced my company to at least entertain

Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-13 Thread bruce . labitt
gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org wrote on 10/13/2009 08:44:49 AM: Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net mailto:bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote: What I'm trying to do: Optimizer for a radar power spectral density problem Problem: FFTs required in optimization loop

Re: Open Source Photography

2009-10-13 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_cl...@comcast.netwrote: Ted Roche writes: For folks just tuning in, the Canon Hack Development Kit is an add-on to the firmware for the Canon Powershot series of cameras that offers lots of extensions to the functionality. Sadly,

Re: Suggestions - embedded Linux

2009-10-13 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.comwrote: So, I've convinced my company to at least entertain the idea of using embedded Linux on one of our upcoming projects, but I'm in need of some research. I'm doing my own, of course, but I thought some of you might

Re: Open Source Photography

2009-10-13 Thread Ted Roche
On 10/13/2009 09:51 AM, Lori Nagel wrote: I don't know what model you have, but there were a few models that apparently had some kind of chip in them, that gave out when it got a little humid or something. Cannon paid the postage for my camera to be shipped and mailed back to me so it was

Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-13 Thread bruce . labitt
Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com wrote on 10/13/2009 02:04:36 PM: On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:54, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote: gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org wrote on 10/13/2009 08:13:12 AM: Greetings Bruce, Still thinking about your problem... Well, thank you for

sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
Let's try another sendmail question: I'm running sendmail 8.14.3 on fedora 10 and I need help understanding how to work with listening ports. I have two machines which I will call A and B. A has two NICs: eth0 is connected to the outside, and B is connected to eth1 on A. A is the sendmail server

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: The list manager running on A was configured to send to localhost:24 ... Why? :) I did this by setting: define(`confMAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE', `20')dnl which for me makes sense. (Am I wrong?) :-( Well, that means

Gnu-autotools

2009-10-13 Thread Lori Nagel
I was wondering where I could find some good tutorials on gnu-autotools and using them in free software projects -thanks. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Gnu-autotools

2009-10-13 Thread D. Bahi
Lori Nagel wrote: I was wondering where I could find some good tutorials on gnu-autotools and using them in free software projects -thanks. I would also like to see a condensed tutorial that would demystify this art for me... till then I've made use of these: the IDE Anjuta

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 10/13/09 17:34, quoth Ben Scott: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: The list manager running on A was configured to send to localhost:24 ... Why? :) I did this by setting: define(`confMAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE', `20')dnl which for me makes sense.

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: The way I understand it, sendmail made to switchover a while back to separate out the sendmail process from the MSP. I guess the question is: Why did they do this in the first place? Security. To avoid having to run

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  TCP/24 is assigned to LMTP, Local Mail Transfer Protocol. P.S.: I'm pretty sure that whatever you've got configured on TCP/24, it ain't LMTP. It appears to basically be a fairly typical Sendmail SMTP MTA, except modified