Quick Update: Linux or CE6

 

As promised, I’ve got a quick update about the system. I got my board out and flashed a build of Windows CE 6.0 that I had lying around. I’m currently evaluating how well CE6 would work for my idea. At this point of time I’m rather inclined towards throwing in a build of Linux like Qtopia or OpenEmbedded and avoid the whole .NETCF thing I had planned. One of the reasons for that is, I’m unable to get a good driver for my OV9650 based CMOS camera module, and I don't want to use the (slow) C# I/O to write a new one. I do already have a driver and DLL written in eVC++ for the module but that is giving me erratic results in CE6 (works great in CE5), so I reason: If I’m using C++, I’d rather use it with Linux than CE6.

So now the question, Qtopia (I think it’s being called QTextended now)or OpenEmbedded? The answer is also a question, which has better community support? Hmmm…

That’s all for now folks. As always, leave your comments, it makes my day.

The heights of geekiness

Geek noun \ˈgēk\: Geek  Used in a nice way it is someone who seems to know everything there is to know about computers.

If I were to define myself as a geek, I would say:

   1:    -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----

   2:    Version: 3.12

   3:    GED/J d-- s:++>: a-- C+++(++++) 

   4:    ULU++ P+ L++ E---- W+(-) N+++ 

   5:    o+ K+++ w---  O- M+ V-- PS++>

   6:    $ PE++>$ Y++ PGP++ t- 5+++ 

   7:    X++ R+++>$ tv+ b+ DI+++ D+++

   8:    G+++++ e++ h r-- y++**

   9:    ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

(don't understand the above? refer to The Geek Code v3.12, Yup, we have one)

Even as a geek, there comes a point, where you need to draw the line. One such point came today. I found myself facing a dilemma, unable to decide, "How to get bored today". After much deliberation I found that I simply could not decide between five things to do. Under these circumstances I decided a coin toss would be ideal. This of course brought up another question how best to decide between 5 choices using a coin. At that time a brilliant geeky idea came to me, and I decided to whip together a "Random Choice Maker"

Took me 20 minutes to whip together this simple utility, I wrote a simple RNG function it went like:

   1: class myRandomizerClass

   2: {

   3:     public int generateRandomValue(int uValue)

   4:     {

   5:         int millisecondsNow = DateTime.Now.Millisecond, breakIndex = 1000/uValue;

   6:         return millisecondsNow/breakIndex;

   7:     }

   8: }

It uses a simple uValue for checking quantile density.

So, that's it. Once again I ended up prooving that "Once a geek, always a Geek"

Cheerio.