Es ist 8 vor halb 5. -- It's 4.22 p.m.
Sitting in front my desk, wonder what to do next. I am not going to miss the Man Utd match tonight. Is Ji Sung, Park going to start the match? Perhaps, my friend is asking this question now.
Just come back from my German class. The class is going to end this month. Start another new section in January year 2006. The "little" boy, sitting in front of me in the class, only finished taking his PMR exam. Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR), a term that I almost forgot. He borrowed my handphone to ask for a job as sales promoter this morning. So, why doesn't he spend his time doing more reading or preparing for his further study? I said to him "You don't need to rush yourself. You probably will work as a slave once you failed your exam!" Anyway, I think that he should be able to do well. At the same time, money for him should not be a problem. Why? FAMA will support him. FYI, FAMA stands for Father and Mother Association.
I attended a technical talk on WindRiver Workbench or IDE - Linux debugging on Wednesday morning. It seems that big company, such as WindRiver, also want to invest and break into Linux market. They have come out with a workbench which could support both the Linux and vxWorks (RTOS) at the same time. The major interesting point here is all the engineers can learn to use the same workbench and then can have multiple OSes support for doing their embedded system debugging. Hey, I am not a sales guy from WindRiver. Anyway, this is indeed a useful tool for those finding the difficulty using gdb for user mode debugging!
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Tornado is nice and all but the license is helluva expensive. I remember last time that the Uni rate they gave after 70% discount was still around 27k RM per seat per project. Which means that if you have 2 people working on 1 project, you will need to pay for 2 licenses or if you have 1 person working on 2 projects you'll also have to pay for 2 licenses.
I wonder if the tool is good enough in terms of increasing engineer productivity at the expense of such a high cost and tying yourself to a tool which forces you to pay so much for licensing excluding tech support.
WindRiver changes their marketing strategy this time. They offer Runtime Component License which is not tied to project, but based on annual subscription fee. Anyway, it's still very expensive. Do you have do any benchmarking on the performance of vxWorks RTOS before?
Sorry. No. I should have though. Missed the chance.
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