Sunday, June 28 2009 @ 12:19 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Contiki 2.3 have been released. This version brings a new IPv6 routing layer, IPv6/6lowpan for the Tmote Sky platform, the Cooja TimeLine, a set of new shell commands, improvements to the LPP and X-MAC power-saving radio protocols, a new port to the MSB430 platform, and a Twitter client. Cool!
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Tuesday, June 16 2009 @ 22:50 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Inspired by the success with my Ultra 1, I brushed the dust off another old machine: the SunSPARCstation 2. Mine is actually labeled "Nokia Data" "Alfaskop S30". Anyway, after a bit off fiddling, I got it to boot (the logs shows that it was last booted in September 2002!). It turns out that it runs NetBSD:
root@sparc2# uname -a
NetBSD sparc2.kg4.no 1.5.2 NetBSD 1.5.2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Aug 22 04:33:09 CST 2001 toor@proxima:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC sparc
Tuesday, June 16 2009 @ 21:37 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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If your Sun SPARCstation 2 boots up and says "IDPROM data invalid" or some such, you can have problem operating it, because the IDPROM conations the ethernet address and Hostid. Luckily, the Sun NVRAM/Hostid faq have answers.
To fix the problem, you do like this:
Hit ``n'' to get the new openboot prompt
setenv diag-switch? false
f idprom@ 1 xor f mkp (this will invalidate the checkum in the idprom)
8 0 20 0e c1 62 0ec162 mkpl (hit enter)
Hit ctrl-D then ctrl-R, if you do NOT see a Sun Copyright notice, it worked, otherwise it failed.
That's it
Oh, if it doesn't work the first time, try again. And - if the battery on you SPARCstation 2 is dead you will have to do this every time the machine has been switched off.
Monday, June 15 2009 @ 00:32 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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The last time I installed anything on my Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3D, I had to do it with netbooting. I was more lucky this time - the machine now has a working cd-rom drive. The install was easy enoujgh; download the correct cd image, burn it, and boot the ultra 1 from the cd. Then follow the normal FreeBSD installation with sysinstall. The machine now runs FreeBSD 7.2-release:
root@ultra1# uname -a
FreeBSD ultra1.kg4.no 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Sat May 2 08:25:23 UTC 2009 root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC sparc64
Saturday, June 06 2009 @ 10:15 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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OpenSolaris 2009.06 is here. This new release comes packed with new features, changes, improvements, and fixes, and is the first release of OpenSolaris for SPARC, adding support for UltraSPARC T1, T2 (Sun4v), and UltraSPARC II, III and IV (Sun4u). Read what's new in Opensolaris 2009.06. Some very interesting news are:
Sunday, May 31 2009 @ 00:33 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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The XPL0 programming language is a computer programming language that is essentially a cross between Pascal and C. It was created in 1976 by Peter J. R. Boyle who wanted a high-level language for his microcomputer and wanted something more sophisticated than BASIC, which was the dominant language for personal computers at the time.
Saturday, May 16 2009 @ 14:14 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor) for Mac OS X, designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge! MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people. But sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is Bean's niche. Read what Wikipedia has about Bean.
(found via Make: magazine, the paper edition)
Monday, May 11 2009 @ 14:15 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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UNIX network analysis from IBMdeveloperWorks is a tutorial which examines techniques for monitoring the traffic and content of your UNIX network and how to read and diagnose problems on your network.
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