[ from the things-to-do-instead-of-sleep dept. ]
I built SMX Minix, partly for my project work, partly as a big hint that I think cs.nott.ac.uk should be using it in teaching. Such a fantastic tool is freely available, why, it’s almost like using hundreds of Windows workstations when Debian is Free…
So I had to hack a little at mcc to get the compilation (or should that be “complication”?) to work. I set a -mv8 since otherwise nice issues with missing .mul and .div and so forth arise due to local oddities. The included libraries needed a little tweaking though it does all work now and is sitting in /stud/ug/jcm00u/local/smx/sunbin for those students interested. Perhaps I should package SMX Minix so it can be installed with pkgadd and pkgget…hmmm…there’s an idea in that.
Obligatory mention of how the NEW NTL DOWNLOAD RESTRICTIONS SUCK (1GB/day or 1/4 of the bandwidth we actually pay for). I would not chose NTL now if I were a new customer – as an existing customer I will be ending my contract in the summer anyway and now have no plans of becomming another one. Perhaps if they realised nobody likes this RESTRICTIVE BULLSHIT then they might change their minds. Certainly we will not be upgrading to 1MBit/s I feel – what would be the point, NTL?
Jon.