The Open Document Format has been a standard for a while. It is amazing that Microsoft did not take part in that standard development effort. Well, no, it's not really amazing. It is well known that Microsoft likes to embrace, extend, and extinguish. It likes lock-in. It likes to be a monopoly. Acknowledging and working with ODF would not force people to buy and use Microsoft Office, which would be a definite profit problem. Continue reading "Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Open..." »
Thursday, August 30. 2007
Cisco Log Decoding
On the Cisco-voip mailing list, there was reference to a couple of sites that provide log decoders for Callmanger and IOS: Continue reading "Cisco Log Decoding" »
Wednesday, August 29. 2007
Lighting for Moliere's Sisterhood
The last I wrote regarding lighting effects for The Sisterhood was in an article back on Aug 11 where I discussed getting the equipment ready prior to design. Continue reading "Lighting for Moliere's Sisterhood" »
Sunday, August 26. 2007
HTC P4550 Kaiser TyTN II
It is said that this device is to be released sometime during September, any where from second week to Oct 1, depending upon who you read. Continue reading "HTC P4550 Kaiser TyTN II" »
Thursday, August 23. 2007
Open Source Network Empairment Emulator
I have a customer who wants to simluate file replication traffic over a Wan link. I came across NIST Net, which is a network emulation package that runs on Linux. A paper called NIST Net -- A Linux-based Network Emulation Tooldescribes the algorithms behind what it does. Continue reading "Open Source Network Empairment Emulator" »
Open Source Site of the Day -- Some Sites Referencing SNMP Sites
- Simple Web
- SLAC: Network Monitoring Tools
- Free Software Directory: not necessarily SNMP, but free all the same
Friday, August 17. 2007
Genetic Programming Tool: Open BEAGLE
On the Yahoo Tech Group, Genetic Programming, is a reference to a Genetic Programming tool based upon C++, called Open BEAGLE, which stands for "Beagle Engine is an Advanced Genetic Learning Environment.
It is hosted on SourceForge.
In addition, it has a Yahoo Group. Although it appears to be based upon a Linux platform, I see someone is maintaining the ability for running in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
Thursday, August 16. 2007
Asterisk Cisco CallManager Voicemail Integration
Tuesday, August 14. 2007
Recording Calls in a Cisco Environment
In one of today's Cisco listserves, there were a few suggestions for Call Recording software: Continue reading "Recording Calls in a Cisco Environment" »
LINQ: Language Integrated Query
In the upcoming release of Microsoft's .NET version 3.0, code named ORCA, they have a fewature called Language Integrated Query (LINQ). [Come to think of it, v3.0 is now out, I've been rooted in C++, I'll have to get back to C@ and check it out]. The language extension allows one to write queries for anything with an iterator. Writing inline SQL queries comes immediately to mind. I've also heard that there is something called PLINQ (Parallel LINQ).
Here are a couple of references regarding the subject:
On an unrelated programming note, erlang is said to be a language for developing interacting distributed applications. One interesting capability is Hot Code Replacement (replacing code and data without stopping the system).
C++ STL (Standard Template Library)
Here is a nifty shortcut to make C++ do what you can do in C#:
public static void ForEach(this IEnumerable ienum, Action func) { foreach (var v in ienum) func(v); }
Trading Site of the Day -- IVolatility.com: Implied Volatility Data
I would say, based upon the sites I've seen so far, at least from a volatility point of view, IVolatility.com is probably the best for information regarding volatility and its uses. As far as I can tell, they provide data only, no brokerage services. For trading purposes, ThinOrSwim can nicely supply that requirement. Continue reading "Trading Site of the Day -- IVolatility.com:..." »
Sunday, August 12. 2007
Trading Site of the Day -- Seeking Alpha: Stock Market Opinion & Analysis
Seeking Alpha is a site containing mostly, if not all, reader contributed articles. It is quite active, even on a Sunday. One get commentary and opinion on the market in general, as well as industries and companies in specific. Continue reading "Trading Site of the Day -- Seeking Alpha:..." »
Saturday, August 11. 2007
The Geek Side of Lighting
Saturday didn't start off so well. I was going to ride my pedal bike into town for the day. That was not to be. On getting on my bike, I find that it had flat. Rather than fixing the flat right then, I put it off till Sunday, and drove my car into town. This turned out to be fortuitous, as the theatre was having 'cleaning day', and I was able to pick up a few pieces of furniture to haul home. However on the way back in, I decided to take the 'scenic route' down to Flatts and back. It was such a nice day for a drive. My car didn't think so. It decided to konk out a little ways back from Flatts on Middle Road. I spent an hour or two sitting in the grass waiting for the tow truck to arrive. In waiting, I noticed that there weren't too many, if any, 20 year Toyota's still around. Most of the drivers had spiffy new cars. So being without transportation made it a bit difficult to make it to a party I supposed to go to. Continue reading "The Geek Side of Lighting" »
John H. Holland
Programs that learn, changing the course of calculation as the model accumulates experience, are rare after almost half a century of endeavor. We still have little theory to guide us and few implementations. . John H. Holland