The ramblings of a yorkshire tyke

The last couple of weeks have been very busy and it has unfortunately affected the amount of blog entries I have done but the good news I have plenty of new material..

So, what’s my excuse.. Well we have been counting down the internal builds of Visual COBOL and we are pretty much ready to ship which is a relief since we are going to launching it at the Microsoft’s Visual Studio launch parties in Las Vegas and TechEd in Bangalore April 12-14.

Personally for me I am quite excited because I will be going to Teched in Bangalore to help show off Visual COBOL.

If would like a look at some of the Visual Studio 2010 integration Micro Focus has is about to release, pop along to http://vs2010.microfocus.com/ and see for yourself. Better still, have a visit to teched

I will finish the silly little blog with a link to a demo of Visual COBOL. Just because I’m proud of it…

ref: http://www.microsoftteched.in/
and http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-gb/products/2010/default.mspx

I finally managed to get a cross compiler that works with the pogoplug, I first tried various custom build of the GNU C++ cross compiler on the Mac but none of them succeeded in creating binaries that were compatible with my little pink pogoplug.

Anyway, instead of boring you with various evening’s development woos… I will just tell you what I ended up doing which was to use VirtuaBox with ubuntu x86 and use this tar file (eg: bunzip2 it, tar xvf into $HOME)

Then to compile it I first had to setup the makefile for rsync:

Then to build is was easy… I just did…

Next, I found a small USB thumb drive, formatted in ext3 using ubuntu, placed it into the pogoplug, logged into it, remount’ed the drives using:

You may need to change the mnt point, use mount to find it..

Now you will be able to use rsync via ssh and use –rsync-path to point to rsync on your ext3 drive.

I required, I make the rsync exe + md5 sum available… just shout!

I am now officially tickle pink with excitement…

Here is what my Apple Software update said:

Digital Raw Compatibility Update:

This update extends RAW image compatibility for Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’09 for the following cameras:

Hasselblad H3DII-50
Leica M9
Leica X1
Olympus E-P1
Olympus E-P2
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1
Pentax K-7
Pentax K-x
Sony Alpha DSLR-A500
Sony Alpha DSLR-A550
Sony Alpha DSLR-A850

Thank you Apple!

Okay.. I got my pogoplug last week and I have been playing around with it and it is now time to change the root password… so guess what happened…

The good news, the file system is read-only, so it was pretty simple to work around, just use mount…

Well Done Amy! – The picture is from Boston.com see link below:

Amy Williams of Great Britain and Northern Ireland eyes the track ahead in the women’s skeleton run 2 on day 7 of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics on February 18, 2010. (Clive Mason/Getty Images)

re: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/vancouver_2010_part_1_of_2.html