| 10 from IBM: Unix tasks, Time Base, LAMP, NFS, ActionScript 3.0...
IBM has published the following new technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its DeveloperWorks and AlphaWorks websites. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics, primarily related to Linux and open source system development. Some require free registration.
Learn how UNIX multitasks -- On UNIX systems, each system and end-user task is contained within a process. Learn how to control processes and use a number of commands to peer into your system.
Measure Time in Linux with Time Base -- Use the PA technology's Time Base register to measure time at the nanosecond level in Linux on PowerPC and Cell BE microprocessors. Applications where this is useful include timestamping transactions (typically encrypted or digitally signed single-use messages), profiling code, and implementing small, precise software delays.
Radaza yields; Ouano resists
TWO Metro Cebu mayors decided yesterday to fight an ombudsman order preventively suspending them, without pay, for six months while they answer charges provoked by the purchase of expensive street lamps.
But while it was almost business as usual in Lapu-Lapu City, an irate crowd effectively blocked the way to the mayors office in Mandaue, displaying placards that attacked the vigilante justice dispensed by the anti-graft office.
Pinoy Votes: Sun.Star Election 2007
Lapu-Lapus Mayor Arturo Radaza received the suspension order and temporarily handed over control of City Hallwith a kiss on the cheek for good measureto Vice Mayor Norma Patalinjug, his challenger in the May 14 elections. They even posed for pictures.
Mandaue City Mayor Thadeo Ouano made no public appearance, even as his supporters blocked the stairs to his second-floor office, and the driveway was barred by a government-owned dump truck and a backhoe.
Making new friends in high places
"Perhaps you ought to. The bald patch on top is spreading. I get a good view of it from up here. We CCTV cameras are rather de haut en bas, you might say. Sorry to mention it. I was just trying to make conversation." "You're supposed to be berating vandals and ticking off people who drop litter, not making personal remarks," I said, walking away, irritated. For the next week or so, the CCTV camera was silent as I passed, although I thought I heard it tut-tutting a couple of times. Then one day it spoke again. "Never brown in town. Your shoes. Brown. Haven't you heard that dictum? Never mind." The camera sighed. "How's life up your lamp post?" I asked. "Oh terrific. I'm stuck here day after day, watching youths hurl doner kebabs and kick Sprite cans. The only conversation I get is at 5am when the dustmen's lorry arrives and says 'Stand back, vehicle reversing' over and over again.
West Plano yard sale report: the neighborhood sale
This week was a continuation of my search for end tables. But I also decided to try and find lamps for the living room. I have a pair of nice little lamps but, when I turn them on, the shade gets really hot. It looks like it's made of copper but it's really made of shell; I got them at a yard sale. Rather than look online, I decided this week to just start driving. If you drive along Spring Creek or Park or Legacy, you'll eventually see signs. The first sign I saw went into Mission Ridge Road, where I saw two or three right near each other. I said, "Oh, is this a neighborhood thing?" It turned out to be a sale with 26 houses spread out over 15 roads in this one neighborhood. They were giving out a map, with each participating house outlined, and below each house, a list of what they were selling.
19 govt execs face raps for ‘overpriced’ lamps
CEBU CITY: Antigraft investigators filed criminal and administrative complaints against 19 government officials, including two city mayors in Metro Cebu, who were allegedly responsible for the overpriced lampposts and streetlights amounting to P365.8 million bought for the 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Summit. Acting Deputy Ombudsman for the Visayas Virginia Santiago said this was the result of a three-week inquiry into the complaint on the overpriced decorative lampposts and streetlights filed by businessman Crisologo Saavedra. Named in the complaint were Mayor Thadeo Ouano of Mandaue City, Mayor Arturo Radaza of Lapu-Lapu City, Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) 7 director Roberto Lala, assistant directors Gloria Dindin, Marlina Alvizo and Pureza Fernandez and section chief Crescencio Bagolor.
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