Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Tyler Dauwalder wrote: > > Here's my proposed header changes for the Disk Device API > > incorporating a more general partitioning scheme: > > > > http://www.dauwalder.net/DiskDeviceAPI=5Fv2.0.zip > [...] > > I think that's pretty much it. I now await your comments. :-) > If you can abide to wait for mine till tomorrow; I don't think, I'll > find the time to thoroughly read through it and write up my findings > today > (at least not before the meeting, and quite definitely not thereafter > ;-). I probably won't have the time to do that until thursday. I hope you've done the right thing ;-)) > > p.s. How's the laptop hunt going, Ingo=3F :-) > I abandoned the idea to buy one with a desktop CPU. You get quite an > impressive configuration for relatively little money, but you can be > sure > that the fan is roaring all the time. I first thought, I could get > used to > it, but it's really quite annoying. Oh yes, I know - my laptop is also "overpacked" with a P-III 800 - the fan is always on, and gets pretty loud under heavy usage (actually even not so heavy usage) :/ But my next PC will be (almost) fanless, I'll really try :) > So it must be a mobile processor -- mobile P4 or Pentium-M (Athlon > CPUs > usually don't come with ATI graphics) --, which is considerably > dearer > (the latter one even more so). Also taking my other requirements into > account -- an ATI mobile Radeon and a >=3D15" display with >XGA > resolution > -- I've finally found only one machine > (http://www5.avitos.com/shop/info.asp=3Fproduct=5Fcode=3DNOT1180&; > product=5Fgroup=3D410&service=5Fgroup=3D&search=5Fstr=3D&sid=3D559993922&retpage=3D/ shop/folder.asp) > (even without Windows! :-) which I can afford with only one more > month > starving. ;-) I haven't seen it in any store yet and thus don't know Sounds nice! > ... > As an alternative, I'm considering buying a really good machine, with > no > compromises to be made, in installments. It seems that the Pentium-M > (code named Banias) is quite a good horse to bet on. Stippi had a > closer > look at a Sony machine, all components of which (save this > Centrino-bundled WLAN card) were supported properly. And as he said, > he > didn't manage to get the fan started, even after several minutes of a > `md5sum < /dev/zero'. Quite promising... Yeah, I would buy that one too, just gimme some money ;-) > To sum it up, I'm still waiting to get my money back, and am even > more > undecided than at the beginning. :-( I couldn't have imagined, that > this > would be that difficult. Maybe I'm just not decisive enough. But, you > know, it's quite a bunch of money, and I'll spend considerable time > working with that laptop for the next three or so years. Yes, indeed, it's an important decision, I would also think about that a lot, if I was going to replace my desktop machine. > Anyway, unless a final decision is made very soon, I think, I'll > start to > port the build system and the relevant parts of code to mwcc to be > able to > do some work on my PPC machine at least. Don't spend too much work on that; it's nothing wrong to let another compiler have a look over the code, but all those declspec stuff we don't need with ELF could give you a lot of headaches. But if you can do it on that code only... :-) Adios... Axel.