As a member of the Areabot association, I participated to the 2006 French robotics competition last week. We had to develop specific software for our robot, driven by two Shix boards containing each one a SH7750R processor at 240MHz running Linux and a Stratix EP1S25 FPGA.
We decided to use Mercurial from the beginning for our [...]
For the 2006 French robotics cup, I wrote two utility packages for GNAT, the GNU Ada compiler:
areadline: access the readline library from Ada;
aforth: embeddable Forth interpreter written in Ada (uses the areadline library).
I haven’t put a license file in them yet, but you can get them under the GNU General Public License version 2.
As a low-level software guy, I often have to work with electrical engineers to build custom hardware and software systems. I am constantly amazed by the tricks necessary to make the hardware part work and the experience needed to build reliable electrical components. I decided to apply the same techniques to my software.
First of all, [...]
Comme je l’avais expliqué dans Asterisk - build your own PBX, la prise téléphonique de ma Freebox était connectée à mon PC par une interface analogique de type FXO. Sur le PC, qui tourne sous GNU/Linux, l’autocommutateur libre Asterisk gère mes communications et mes services. Tout fonctionnait correctement, même si la reconnaissance du raccroché du [...]
« Connecter son réseau d’entreprise à l’Internet », un livre publié par deux amis et moi-même en 1997, est maintenant disponible en ligne sous une licence libre Creative Commons. Une bonne partie du contenu est évidemment obsolète, mais d’autres sections peuvent être réutilisées.
A bet. A stupid bet. I lost it.
As a consequence, I have to endure one of the most difficult and unpleasant challenge that I can think of. I have to top-post for one whole month. Effective yesterday evening.
I will try to answer my email and usenet posts without any context whenever possible. Please bear with [...]
Before leaving for my vacation,here are two small Python libraries I wrote that may help you if you want to participate to Project Euler:
primes.py: fast prime number generation and integer factorization
pell.py: find solutions pairs to Pell diophantine equation x2-Dy2=1
This may come as a surprise, but I will today write about a programming language for which no Free Software implementation exists, the J programming language. J does not stand for the J dirty word (Java), but is the full name of the language.
I first heard about J while solving some problems on the Project [...]
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