Re: DiskDevice API v2.0

On 2003-03-24 at 07:17:30 [-0800], Ingo Weinhold 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_v2.0.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 
> ;-).

Certainly, I can wait. No hurry. :-)

> > p.s. How's the laptop hunt going, Ingo? :-)
> 
> *sigh*
> 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.
> 
> 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 >=15" display with >XGA 
> resolution
> -- I've finally found only one machine
> (http://www5.avitos.com/shop/info.asp?product_code=NOT1180&product_group=410&service_group=&search_str=&sid=559993922&retpage=/shop/folder.asp)
> (even without Windows! :-) which I can afford with only one more month
> starving. ;-) 

Wow, that's quite a nice machine, though. :-)

> 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...

Wow, I hadn't heard of those. Sounds impressive.

> 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.

No, I know what you mean. Shopping is a real chore.

> 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.

Sounds good. :-)

-Tyler