What you are about to read occured in the past - I believe it was 1999/2000. Flashbacks are normal for new-years.
It looks like the homeloan/bond money is going to take some time longer than expected to come through. Not really a problem, because I am hitting the highs again. I just got my Ancestry visa application all together and submitted, so now I can get on with more of my life, still have to sell the 2 cars, and find homes for the 2 dogs,
Home alone, and working
Been home-alone for a bit this week, means I got some work done on the contract, it is hard going, an unfamiliar environment like linux does slow you a little, but it is so cool when you realize what you were doing wrong, and discover a shortcut to do what you wanted to in a much simpler way. What I find so kinky is that it (linux SUSE) really does use less RAM. It is a great developer platform to work on, because most things work faster (except the help-system, which works on-line actually) because I have limited conenctivity it does hurt. Once in the UK I hope to corry on linux-ing and get totally broadband. I am still contemplating mail-bombing my buddies back in RSA the day I get fully connected. But that is all in the future, so much to get done before that time.
Oh, plug! I am building a TCP/IP gateway for Radio Transmission Services http://www.rtse.co.za/, the project is basically a small linux-box (about 7 inches across) with only one purpose, run a lightweight SUSE kernel and some realtime patches to do very precise modem-control in order to communicate back out to a very long customized RS485 network, and expose all the data via a modbus TCP/IP (open-mbus) over LAN.
I rarely dof my salesmans hat, but now I will pause to return myself to normal me.
signing off, Z
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Hi Conrad,
A lot has happened since - I still remember installing Linux on your then brand new laptop, getting the real time kernel modules running, and struggling to get the debugger to do what we wanted it to. Who could have guessed what those initial forays into Linux would lead to. I've tried to keep up via your blogs, but haven't kept track lately.
I've since left RTS and joined Adroit, but still get to work with the Modbus Ethernet gateway you helped design all those years ago.
Happy hacking and all the best.
Hi Conrad,
A lot has happened since - I still remember installing Linux on your then brand new laptop, getting the real time kernel modules running, and struggling to get the debugger to do what we wanted it to. Who could have guessed what those initial forays into Linux would lead to. I've tried to keep up via your blogs, but haven't kept track lately.
I've since left RTS and joined Adroit, but still get to work with the Modbus Ethernet gateway you helped design all those years ago.
Happy hacking and all the best.
I am actually right now trying to get into the que to buy a raspberry pi . I have not really used the open-sourced os much, just on and off since. So I hope to learn how to get back into using gcc and all on the raspberry Pi .
Sent off for our British passports a week ago, should get here soon. All ready in good time to come over to SA for a holiday in August. Pity it will probably be quite cold around then, was hopeing to soak up some sun.
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