Comments for So I decided to take my work back underground http://gaiustech.wordpress.com To stop it falling into the wrong hands Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Learning the Wrong Lessons by MongoDB Days | So I decided to take my work back underground http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/learning-the-wrong-lessons/#comment-368 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:27:57 +0000 http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/?p=1833#comment-368 [...] speaker claimed that it was far better for each application to have its own database, and expose all its data through web services. Sounds good, except you now need another technology, [...]

]]> Comment on Raspberry Pi: Who is it really for? by Mischief http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/raspberry-pi/#comment-366 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:14:19 +0000 http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/?p=2093#comment-366 I can’t agree with you more. After ordering one and switching it on it crossed my mind: what does this do that a Windows laptop doesn’t. I’m having trouble getting my son’s primary school interested in it, which is a shame as I was preparing to donate it to them and help to get them started. For hackers like us it’s wonderful and it’ll probably make a good BeagleBone replacement. Without lots of I/O (like, enough to make and program a robot or some christmas lights or something) there’s still no compelling reason for schools to use one.

]]> Comment on Happy New Year by Quick histograms | So I decided to take my work back underground http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/happy-new-year-2/#comment-343 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:45:11 +0000 http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/?p=2078#comment-343 [...] right now, the best of them IMHO. I might write a post comparing it with the Atari STE, and the BBC with the C64, in the cold light of day as an experienced adult. I have a fine collection of classic [...]

]]> Comment on OCaml as a SQL*Plus replacement? by Quick histograms | So I decided to take my work back underground http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/ocaml-as-a-sqlplus-replacement/#comment-342 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:35:54 +0000 http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/?p=750#comment-342 [...] Just to get warmed up, inspired by spark I have added a quick histogram function, similar to quick query for interactive use. This requires a query of the form of a label and a number, for example a [...]

]]> Comment on OCI*ML: Minor updates by OCaml 4 beta | So I decided to take my work back underground http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/ociml-minor-updates/#comment-341 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:17:14 +0000 http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/?p=918#comment-341 [...] impact of these was that the toplevel prompt wasn’t working in the shell, and one non-fatal warning when compiling, so nothing that would [...]

]]> Comment on Raspberry Pi: Who is it really for? by Gaius http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/raspberry-pi/#comment-337 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:44:28 +0000 http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/?p=2093#comment-337 There is something similar in the BBC world too: http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/armcopro.htm

If you are interested in Pi, also check out FIGnition, which to my mind is far truer to the original vision of a powerful yet simple device as those old 8-bit micros: https://sites.google.com/site/libby8dev/fignition

]]> Comment on Raspberry Pi: Who is it really for? by Peter http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/raspberry-pi/#comment-336 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:27:18 +0000 http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/?p=2093#comment-336 I totally forgot the projects by Chuck Moore involving MISC – Minimal Instruction Set Computer: MuP21 and F21 (links are on the page mentioned below). A cheap CPU with video-out. Running Forth. It really got me excited when I started using (or getting used to) Forth.

More stuff like that: http://www.ultratechnology.com/chips.htm

]]> Comment on Raspberry Pi: Who is it really for? by Peter http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/raspberry-pi/#comment-335 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:20:56 +0000 http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/?p=2093#comment-335 Amazing! Your thought experiment is something that was already realised for the Commodore 64, for which the SuperCPU is available with max 16MB RAM (used for program and as ram drive), and a WDC 65816 at 20 MHz.
I never tried it, because it was to expensive for me back when it came out, which was somewhere late 1995, early 1996 (it was discussed in http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/chacking/c=hacking12.txt in March 1996). According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64_peripherals), there are still peripherals being developed for the C64, so why not for the BBC.

BTW, I lately found out about Arduino, and now about Raspberry Pi. Stuff like this gets me excited, even if I would only think about playing with it, together with my kids.

]]> Comment on Is Virtualization Worth It? by Raspberry Pi | So I decided to take my work back underground http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/is-virtualization-worth-it/#comment-334 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:05:31 +0000 http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/?p=1316#comment-334 [...] and less accessible. How is this possible? Abstraction. Moving further from the machine, or placing more and more layers between the programmer or user and the machine (once those terms were nearly synonymous). It is [...]

]]> Comment on Announcing: OCI*ML by Gaius http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/announcing-ociml/#comment-333 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:02:19 +0000 http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/?p=713#comment-333 Hi Mike,

You can grab the code from GitHub and build it with Make as per the README – I am very interested to hear any feedback. I have been using it for “real work” myself and it is stable with the features that I require day-to-day, the next feature I add will probably be BLOB/CLOB support.

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