Random mumblings of ARM developer
After using BitKeeper (when it has free license), Subversion and monotone each time when I have to work with CVS repository I feel sick. Simple operations takes time — comparing changes need contact with remote repository which sucks especially with SourceForge CVS service (avoid if you can).
But sometimes there is no other choice ;(
Today I decided to try KOffice 1.4.1 on my desktop as I wanted spreadsheet which can open MS Excel or atleast OASIS OpenDocument files and wont be called “OpenOffice.org Calc”.
After few hours of compile I started KSpread, loaded OpenDocument saved by OOCalc2 and I got so many error messages in terminal that I decided to skip another release of KOffice.
Who knows — maybe KOffice 2.0 will be finally working…
Few minutes ago my favorite stylus fall from table and lost a tip… So I have broken stylii for my c760 ;(
I was using that stylus since bought collie in February 2004 — when I got c760 I swapped stylii between both Zauruses — tomorrow (or rather today) I will check does Tungsten|E one will match slot in c760.
Yesterday I did some tests how Zaurus C760 (ARM PXA255 at 400MHz) works with cpufreq enabled kernel (2.6.13-mm1). I have few frequences (100, 200, 300, 400MHz) and modes available:
OPIE sysinfo benchmarks results:
| Test name | 100MHz | 200MHz | 300MHz | 400MHz | 400MHz 2.4 kernel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integer arithmetics (dhrys) | 115814 | 231669 | 348554 | 466092 | 450248 |
| Floating point unit (seconds) | 15.50 | 6.42 | 3.72 | 2.77 | 3.11 |
| Text rendering (chars/s) | 152 | 354 | 354 | 633 | 456 |
| Gfx rendering (gops/s) | 311.17 | 753.58 | 860.25 | 1270.08 | 1441.00 |
| RAM performance (MB/s) | 8.09, 4.68 | 22.22, 15.14 | 31.00, 18.13 | 48.83, 26.48 | 25.78, 16.17 |
| CF card performance (MB/s, kb/s) | 16.77, 63.56 | 25.53, 70.73 | 30.76, 72.27 | 48.52, 77.46 | not tested |
Notes:
Results are weird.. RAM performance under 2.4 kernel can be 26 MB/s in one test, 44 MB/s in other, 33 MB/s in another one. Gfx performance also jumps — 1440 in one attempt, 917 in another…
I cannot test CF card under 2.4 as I do not have pcmcia-cs installed (using pcmciautils under 2.6 kernel).
Today I noticed that blog stopped working;(
I have to add some magic into .htaccess to switch some PHP flags — one of them will be magic_quotes_gpc which suxx.
UPDATE: I have to find why plugins stopped working…
UPDATE II:It was magic_quotes_runtime option.
Today I noticed that 4 years ago I started work at Polnet SA in Wrocław, Poland as PHP programmer. It was times of PHP 4.0.4 when register_globals was normal thing, when using short_tags (< ? ?>) was something which does not bothered me (today it conflict with XML).
Now portal for which I wrote most of code exist in other form, many sections was removed, not all work — time passed, company died.
It was 20 years ago when Commodore Amiga (the initial name of the Amiga 1000) was unveiled officially at the Lincoln Centre in New York.
I had Amiga 600 (with HDD and 2MB RAM) then switched to A1200 which got many upgrades like faster CPU (68030/50 and then 68040/40), additional IDE controler and more RAM (64MB FastRAM was very big amount of RAM :)
Now I don’t have Amiga machine but does not feel that I need one — that time passed away few years ago.