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rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes: > The spam in Google groups has only gotten worse lately and there seems > to be no end in sight. This group is getting hard to find the real I'm using news.eternal-september.org as my nntp server and hardly see any spam. I also prefer gnus/emacs over any web interface. //Petter -- .sig removed by request.Article: 150201
> >>> On Dec 28, 9:03=A0am, "maxascent" wrote: > >> I dont see how it can be harder to understand unless you have no idea how >> an IO buffer works and if thats the case you shouldnt be doing FPGA design. > >What if I am using an Altera device? >Your scheme does not work at all. >Andy's works either way. > > -- Mike Treseler > To be honest I dont think you can create IP that is totally vender neutral as they all have different ways of doing things. I accept for a simple IO buffer you could infer rather that instantiate but some things would be much harder to infer. Jon --------------------------------------- Posted through http://www.FPGARelated.comArticle: 150202
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:02:02 +0100, Petter Gustad wrote: >rickman writes: >> The spam in Google groups has only gotten worse lately >> and there seems to be no end in sight. > >I'm using news.eternal-september.org as my nntp server >and hardly see any spam. Me too; I don't know how eternal-september does its filtering but it works pretty well. And it only very rarely hides valid messages. In the last month or two, though, even that filtering has been swamped by the volume of trash and I'm seeing occasional junk messages - maybe three per week. The rot is deeper than that, though. The three IC-related technology groups that I used to follow regularly are no longer of much interest to me, and I strongly suspect I'm not alone in that: c.l.verilog has essentially NO meaningful traffic now. It used to be one of my primary learning and discussion resources for Verilog, but now I have abandoned it. I think the same has happened to most of the regulars. c.l.vhdl still has homework-ish questions (probably fed from fpgarelated or somesuch?) but very little professional-level traffic. I still monitor it occasionally, but haven't contributed for weeks. By contrast, c.a.fpga still gets a decent (but, I think, decreasing) density of useful content. It's not very focused on my own core activity, but it seems still to be working reasonably well apart from the spam cesspool. So, what's going on? Do Verilog and VHDL practitioners no longer wish to share their experiences in a Net forum? That sounds unlikely; so where have they gone? Possibly to forum sites that have a stronger focus on application rather than language - Verification Guild or OVM World for verification people, for example. That might also explain why c.a.fpga continues to thrive while the language groups are moribund. The forums are spam-free, and although the web interface seems astonishingly clunky to me by comparison with the simplicity of a decent newsreader, it seems to be the way people want to go. The implied shift away from interest in the languages themselves is fascinating too. Does everyone think that the languages are a done deal, and no-one needs to talk about them any more? Are the published books and resources so good nowadays that no-one needs to check with a live human? Or has everyone gone to some place else that I'm insufficiently Net-savvy to know about? I shall look back on the end of 2010 with some sadness. I've been using various newsgroups for about fifteen years now, and they've given me much pleasure, information and insight. But that era is over; the Internet is now a very different place, and I'm much less at home there than I used to be. Relentless march of progress, or merely the tragedy of the commons? Someone else must judge... -- Jonathan BromleyArticle: 150203
On Dec 31, 9:53=A0am, Jonathan Bromley <s...@oxfordbromley.plus.com> wrote: > By contrast, c.a.fpga still gets a decent (but, I > think, decreasing) density of useful content. =A0It's > not very focused on my own core activity, but it > seems still to be working reasonably well apart > from the spam cesspool. <snip> > Or has everyone gone to some place else that > I'm insufficiently Net-savvy to know about? People still need support. CAF is a great resource (no other place like it online) if you are already an expert, but it can be intimidating and unwelcoming (and occasionally hostile) to new users. So, newcomers don't tend to stick around and the community here shrinks rather than grows. But I don't think that that is the main reason for the demise of the HDL/FPGA usenet forums. The younger crowed is more comfortable with newer types of community-based support, ones that prioritize finding answers quickly first, then reputation building, and then discussion. The Xilinx and Altera forums that were revamped a few years ago have these elements, and that's where many go for answers. Others go to sites like stackexchange.com, but there are few FPGA experts there. There are other community support sites out there, but there isn't a single obvious place to go to for support, particularly for anything that isn't very vendor specific, like "MAP failed with error 7563, what does that mean?" The "FPGA/HDL design" community is fragmented, and it's a shame -- we could have it so much better. I've tried to do something about it by proposing this: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/20632/programmable-logic-and-fp= ga-design see my previous CAF post here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.arch.fpga/browse_thread/thread/e45262= 99628848b7 Similarly, others have started this: http://www.overmapped.com One forum needs to reach critical mass so we could have a decent, effective, modern, online community. Usenet, vendor-specific, and platform-specific sites aren't good candidates for this in my opinion. cheers, saar.Article: 150204
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:53:15 +0000, Jonathan Bromley <spam@oxfordbromley.plus.com> wrote: >On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:02:02 +0100, Petter Gustad wrote: > >>rickman writes: >>> The spam in Google groups has only gotten worse lately >>> and there seems to be no end in sight. >> >>I'm using news.eternal-september.org as my nntp server >>and hardly see any spam. > >Me too; I don't know how eternal-september does its >filtering but it works pretty well. >The rot is deeper than that, though. The three >IC-related technology groups that I used to follow >regularly are no longer of much interest to me, >and I strongly suspect I'm not alone in that: Definitely agree with that... >So, what's going on? Do Verilog and VHDL >practitioners no longer wish to share their >experiences in a Net forum? That sounds unlikely; >so where have they gone? Possibly to forum sites >that have a stronger focus on application rather >than language - Verification Guild or OVM World >for verification people, for example. I think the vendor-specific forums (fora, dammit!) and other fragmented, closed solutions have won. Nobody has time to track everything - if you spend an hour a day on the Xilinx fora, and another on StackRelated or FPGAOverflow and another on Facebook, (I presume there are FPGA areas or groups or something on Facebook) there's not much time left for Usenet, let alone actual work... There may be some good stuff on some of these, but in a fragmented fashion that is much less useful than we used to find here. And much harder to find... I'm on comp.arch.fpga, comp.lang.vhdl, and comp.lang.ada - the latter is unfashionable enough to have been overlooked by most of the spammers and destructive interests, so still a really useful group. >I shall look back on the end of 2010 with some >sadness. I've been using various newsgroups for >about fifteen years now, and they've given me >much pleasure, information and insight. But that >era is over; the Internet is now a very different >place, and I'm much less at home there than >I used to be. Relentless march of progress, or >merely the tragedy of the commons? Someone else >must judge... Change is probably inevitable, and maybe it's getting time for Usenet to go the way of the morse amateur bands, and the telegraph. Sadly. - BrianArticle: 150205
"maxascent" <maxascent@n_o_s_p_a_m.n_o_s_p_a_m.yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:F6WdnekcJseCAYDQnZ2dnUVZ_qidnZ2d@giganews.com... > > >>>> On Dec 28, 9:03=A0am, "maxascent" wrote: >> >>> I dont see how it can be harder to understand unless you have no idea > how >>> an IO buffer works and if thats the case you shouldnt be doing FPGA > design. >> >>What if I am using an Altera device? >>Your scheme does not work at all. >>Andy's works either way. >> >> -- Mike Treseler >> > > To be honest I dont think you can create IP that is totally vender neutral > as they all have different ways of doing things. I accept for a simple IO > buffer you could infer rather that instantiate but some things would be > much harder to infer. > Kind of defeats the object of an HDL then. Code portability was always touted as *THE* reason to use HDL. Without that I fail to see any advantage at all over a hierarchical graphical structure with embedded code - even using a schematic with vendor provided megawizards. PhilArticle: 150206
> >"maxascent" <maxascent@n_o_s_p_a_m.n_o_s_p_a_m.yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message >news:F6WdnekcJseCAYDQnZ2dnUVZ_qidnZ2d@giganews.com... >> > >>>>> On Dec 28, 9:03=A0am, "maxascent" wrote: >>> >>>> I dont see how it can be harder to understand unless you have no idea >> how >>>> an IO buffer works and if thats the case you shouldnt be doing FPGA >> design. >>> >>>What if I am using an Altera device? >>>Your scheme does not work at all. >>>Andy's works either way. >>> >>> -- Mike Treseler >>> >> >> To be honest I dont think you can create IP that is totally vender neutral >> as they all have different ways of doing things. I accept for a simple IO >> buffer you could infer rather that instantiate but some things would be >> much harder to infer. >> > >Kind of defeats the object of an HDL then. Code portability was always >touted as *THE* reason to use HDL. Without that I fail to see any advantage >at all over a hierarchical graphical structure with embedded code - even >using a schematic with vendor provided megawizards. > >Phil > > > I guess the problem is that the fpga vendors over the years have started putting more complex hard IP into their devices which have to be instantiated. Personally I try and avoid using Coregen as much as possible as I dont think it gives the best implementation of things like FIFOs and memories, and don't even get me started on MIG. Jon --------------------------------------- Posted through http://www.FPGARelated.comArticle: 150207
On 12/31/2010 4:53 AM, Jonathan Bromley wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:02:02 +0100, Petter Gustad wrote: > >> rickman writes: >>> The spam in Google groups has only gotten worse lately >>> and there seems to be no end in sight. >> >> I'm using news.eternal-september.org as my nntp server >> and hardly see any spam. > > Me too; I don't know how eternal-september does its > filtering but it works pretty well. And it only > very rarely hides valid messages. I've also found eternal-september's filtering to be very good. But it can be slow - I've been using "news.individual.net" too, which seems to have similarly effective filtering but with better speed. It does have a small fee though (10 euro/year, currently ~13USD). <snip> > > The implied shift away from interest in the > languages themselves is fascinating too. Does > everyone think that the languages are a done deal, > and no-one needs to talk about them any more? Are > the published books and resources so good nowadays > that no-one needs to check with a live human? > Or has everyone gone to some place else that > I'm insufficiently Net-savvy to know about? If anyone does discover the Lost World of HDL expert discussions please do post here. As a newby in HDL I haven't been able to make useful contributions, but I've been reading this newsgroup for some time now and have learned a great deal. I really hope that this sort of resource doesn't get completely disappear from the net. And I would like to state that I really appreciate the fact that people with deep knowledge and experience will spend their time providing guidance to those of us who really need it. Jonathan - I've found your contributions to be especially valuable, as they are always informative and often provide a broader perspective that goes beyond the issue raised by the OP. Besides that they're invariably well written and often entertaining. > > I shall look back on the end of 2010 with some > sadness. I've been using various newsgroups for > about fifteen years now, and they've given me > much pleasure, information and insight. But that > era is over; the Internet is now a very different > place, and I'm much less at home there than > I used to be. Relentless march of progress, or > merely the tragedy of the commons? Someone else > must judge... I hate to think that newsgroups are dying, but just in case we're nearing the end let me thank the many experienced contributors to this group who have illuminated some of the subtleties of VHDL for me. Chris AbeleArticle: 150208
On 12/31/2010 1:02 AM, maxascent wrote:
>>
>>>> On Dec 28, 9:03=A0am, "maxascent" wrote:
>>
>>> I dont see how it can be harder to understand unless you have no idea
> how
>>> an IO buffer works and if thats the case you shouldnt be doing FPGA
> design.
>>
>> What if I am using an Altera device?
>> Your scheme does not work at all.
>> Andy's works either way.
>>
>> -- Mike Treseler
>>
>
> To be honest I dont think you can create IP that is totally vender neutral
> as they all have different ways of doing things.
Sure. The pin numbers will be different, but the io description
can be generic.
> I accept for a simple IO
> buffer you could infer rather that instantiate but some things would be
> much harder to infer.
Two things. PLLs and asynchronous block ram.
-- Mike Treseler
Article: 150209
On 12/31/2010 1:53 AM, Jonathan Bromley wrote:
> So, what's going on? Do Verilog and VHDL
> practitioners no longer wish to share their
> experiences in a Net forum? That sounds unlikely;
> so where have they gone?
Some are busy looking for work.
Logic synthesis may be going the way of the mechanical cash register.
Interesting in theory. http://192.220.96.166/
> The implied shift away from interest in the
> languages themselves is fascinating too. Does
> everyone think that the languages are a done deal,
> and no-one needs to talk about them any more? Are
> the published books and resources so good nowadays
> that no-one needs to check with a live human?
> Or has everyone gone to some place else that
> I'm insufficiently Net-savvy to know about?
Given the plunging cost of virtual servers,
other languages are waxing.
> I shall look back on the end of 2010 with some
> sadness. I've been using various newsgroups for
> about fifteen years now, and they've given me
> much pleasure, information and insight. But that
> era is over; the Internet is now a very different
> place, and I'm much less at home there than
> I used to be. Relentless march of progress, or
> merely the tragedy of the commons? Someone else
> must judge...
HDLs may be on the wane, but the internet is not the cause.
-- Mike Treseler
Article: 150210On Dec 31, 8:05=A0pm, Mike Treseler <mtrese...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/31/2010 1:53 AM, Jonathan Bromley wrote: > > > So, what's going on? =A0Do Verilog and VHDL > > practitioners no longer wish to share their > > experiences in a Net forum? =A0That sounds unlikely; > > so where have they gone? > > Some are busy looking for work. > Logic synthesis may be going the way of the mechanical cash register. > Interesting in theory.http://192.220.96.166/ > > > The implied shift away from interest in the > > languages themselves is fascinating too. =A0Does > > everyone think that the languages are a done deal, > > and no-one needs to talk about them any more? =A0Are > > the published books and resources so good nowadays > > that no-one needs to check with a live human? > > Or has everyone gone to some place else that > > I'm insufficiently Net-savvy to know about? > > Given the plunging cost of virtual servers, > other languages are waxing. > > > I shall look back on the end of 2010 with some > > sadness. =A0I've been using various newsgroups for > > about fifteen years now, and they've given me > > much pleasure, information and insight. =A0But that > > era is over; the Internet is now a very different > > place, and I'm much less at home there than > > I used to be. =A0Relentless march of progress, or > > merely the tragedy of the commons? =A0Someone else > > must judge... > > HDLs may be on the wane, but the internet is not the cause. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 -- Mike Treseler Odd post. Do you have a basis for saying logic synthesis is on the wane? What is replacing it? RickArticle: 150211
"Mike Treseler" <mtreseler@gmail.com> wrote in message news:8o7cufF6ttU1@mid.individual.net... > Logic synthesis may be going the way of the mechanical cash register. > Interesting in theory. Why do you say that?Article: 150212
Jonathan Bromley wrote:
> The implied shift away from interest in the
> languages themselves is fascinating too. Does
> everyone think that the languages are a done deal,
> and no-one needs to talk about them any more? Are
> the published books and resources so good nowadays
> that no-one needs to check with a live human?
> Or has everyone gone to some place else that
> I'm insufficiently Net-savvy to know about?
>
> I shall look back on the end of 2010 with some
> sadness. I've been using various newsgroups for
> about fifteen years now, and they've given me
> much pleasure, information and insight. But that
> era is over; the Internet is now a very different
> place, and I'm much less at home there than
> I used to be. Relentless march of progress, or
> merely the tragedy of the commons? Someone else
> must judge...
We were merely immigrants, and now the digital natives
have taken over the place, Jonathan :-)
http://www.tekphile.com/2010/12/where-is-vhdls-jquery/
I look forward to your blogs and tweets ;-)
Jan
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Article: 150213It seems this issue is coming up again and again, with each new ISE release. I am running Fedora 14, x86_64, and installed ISE 12.4. And of course the platform USB cables stopped working ... libusb is installed, and the drivers are installed .... but impact is giving me this: ....... AutoDetecting cable. Please wait. If you are using the Platform Cable USB, please refer to the USB Cable Installation Guide (UG344) to install the libusb package. Connecting to cable (Usb Port - USB21). Checking cable driver. Linux release = 2.6.36.2.RU1. WARNING:iMPACT - Module windrvr6 is not loaded. Please reinstall the cable drivers. See Answer Record 22648. Cable connection failed. Connecting to cable (Parallel Port - parport0). Linux release = 2.6.36.2.RU1. WARNING:iMPACT - Module windrvr6 is not loaded. Please reinstall the cable drivers. See Answer Record 22648. Linux release = 2.6.36.2.RU1. WARNING:iMPACT - Module parport_pc is not loaded. Please reinstall the cable drivers. See Answer Record 22648. Cable connection failed. Any ideas or suggestions ??? Thanks, rudiArticle: 150214
On 12/30/2010 08:57 PM, rickman wrote: > The spam in Google groups has only gotten worse lately and there seems > to be no end in sight. This group is getting hard to find the real > posts in and some of the other groups are just plain unusable with > five or ten spam messages to every real message. I complained about a recent spam article in comp.lang.vhdl. I actually got an e-mail reply from google. Google never used to reply. So it could be as simple as complaining to google. I will try complaining about spam and off topic posts as much as I can. If you can do the same the newsgroup may get a bit cleaner. I have learned a lot about FPGA's and design from this newsgroup so please please carry on. Andy > > Rather than to add spam filters as most newsgroup access providers do, > Google has invented an entirely new interface with an entirely new > look, with the ability to flag a post as spam (or otherwise > inappropriate) and it is hidden from your view. > > That would be great, except that the new interface sucks compared to > the old one. Maybe it is just that I'm used to the old one, but I > have tried the new one in one of the groups I access and I don't seem > to be liking it any more than when I first saw it. > > For a company that is so good at search engines, why can't they > understand anything about how newsgroups should work? > > RickArticle: 150215
On Jan 2, 5:16=A0am, Andy Botterill <a...@plymouth2.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On 12/30/2010 08:57 PM, rickman wrote: > > > The spam in Google groups has only gotten worse lately and there seems > > to be no end in sight. =A0This group is getting hard to find the real > > posts in and some of the other groups are just plain unusable with > > five or ten spam messages to every real message. > > I complained about a recent spam article in comp.lang.vhdl. I actually > got an e-mail reply from google. Google never used to reply. So it could > be as simple as complaining to google. > > I will try complaining about spam and off topic posts as much as I can. > If you can do the same the newsgroup may get a bit cleaner. > > I have learned a lot about FPGA's and design from this newsgroup so > please please carry on. Andy > > > > > Rather than to add spam filters as most newsgroup access providers do, > > Google has invented an entirely new interface with an entirely new > > look, with the ability to flag a post as spam (or otherwise > > inappropriate) and it is hidden from your view. > > > That would be great, except that the new interface sucks compared to > > the old one. =A0Maybe it is just that I'm used to the old one, but I > > have tried the new one in one of the groups I access and I don't seem > > to be liking it any more than when I first saw it. > > > For a company that is so good at search engines, why can't they > > understand anything about how newsgroups should work? > > > Rick Can you explain about your email to Google? To what address did you send an email? I've never found one. I've never found any way to actually contact anyone at Google. They seem to be the ultimate non- human entity in my book. In fact, I receieved a book for Christmas called "The Singularity is Near". Scanning the topics seems to indicate it is suggesting that machines are not only capable of becoming self aware, but that it is inevitable. Google has likely been taken over by the machines and will continue to evolve and eventually enslave all humans. I think it started with Google Groups and has spread to the Android phone (the name being a bit of cyborg humor no doubt). Next I expect they will start to entwine themselves into our essential services and product distribution so that they can cut us off from our ability to survive. What exactly did the reply from Google say? Did it include the words "assimilate", "resistance" and "futile" anywhere? RickArticle: 150217
On 01/02/2011 05:34 PM, rickman wrote: > On Jan 2, 5:16 am, Andy Botterill<a...@plymouth2.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> On 12/30/2010 08:57 PM, rickman wrote: >> >>> The spam in Google groups has only gotten worse lately and there seems >>> to be no end in sight. This group is getting hard to find the real >>> posts in and some of the other groups are just plain unusable with >>> five or ten spam messages to every real message. >> >> I complained about a recent spam article in comp.lang.vhdl. I actually >> got an e-mail reply from google. Google never used to reply. So it could >> be as simple as complaining to google. >> >> I will try complaining about spam and off topic posts as much as I can. >> If you can do the same the newsgroup may get a bit cleaner. >> >> I have learned a lot about FPGA's and design from this newsgroup so >> please please carry on. Andy >> >> >> >> >>> Rick > > Can you explain about your email to Google? To what address did you > send an email? I've never found one. I've never found any way toArticle: 150218
On Jan 2, 1:33=A0pm, Andy Botterill <a...@plymouth2.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On 01/02/2011 05:34 PM, rickman wrote: > > > > > On Jan 2, 5:16 am, Andy Botterill<a...@plymouth2.demon.co.uk> =A0wrote: > >> On 12/30/2010 08:57 PM, rickman wrote: > > >>> The spam in Google groups has only gotten worse lately and there seem= s > >>> to be no end in sight. =A0This group is getting hard to find the real > >>> posts in and some of the other groups are just plain unusable with > >>> five or ten spam messages to every real message. > > >> I complained about a recent spam article in comp.lang.vhdl. I actually > >> got an e-mail reply from google. Google never used to reply. So it cou= ld > >> be as simple as complaining to google. > > >> I will try complaining about spam and off topic posts as much as I can= . > >> If you can do the same the newsgroup may get a bit cleaner. > > >> I have learned a lot about FPGA's and design from this newsgroup so > >> please please carry on. Andy > > >>> Rick > > > Can you explain about your email to Google? =A0To what address did you > > send an email? =A0I've never found one. =A0I've never found any way to > > Path: > gradwell.net!newsh.newsreader.com!newsh.newsreader.com!news-out.readnews.= com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!o23g2000prh.googlegroups.c= om!not-for-mail > From: SAHITHI <k.sahithi2...@gmail.com> > Newsgroups: comp.lang.vhdl > Subject: BETS HOT PHOTOS & VIDEOS > Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 07:55:44 -0800 (PST) > Organization:http://groups.google.com > Lines: 20 > Message-ID: > <f80fecda-4deb-4082-a9f4-36108c01f...@o23g2000prh.googlegroups.com> > NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.199.248.142 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DISO-8859-1 > X-Trace: posting.google.com 1293983744 1063 127.0.0.1 (2 Jan 2011 > 15:55:44 GMT) > X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > That is the place to complain to. > > NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 15:55:44 +0000 (UTC) > Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com > Injection-Info: o23g2000prh.googlegroups.com; > posting-host=3D117.199.248.142; > posting-account=3DIYIO_woAAACZLdlNOANhRD1tMvrUegMl > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > This give the injection point. > > User-Agent: G2/1.0 > X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; > rv:1.9.2.13) > =A0 Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) > Xref: gradwell.net comp.lang.vhdl:63583 > > > actually contact anyone at Google. =A0They seem to be the ultimate non- > > human entity in my book. =A0In fact, I receieved a book for Christmas > > called "The Singularity is Near". =A0Scanning the topics seems to > > indicate it is suggesting that machines are not only capable of > > becoming self aware, but that it is inevitable. =A0Google has likely > > been taken over by the machines and will continue to evolve and > > eventually enslave all humans. =A0I think it started with Google Groups > > and has spread to the Android phone (the name being a bit of cyborg > > humor no doubt). =A0Next I expect they will start to entwine themselves > > into our essential services and product distribution so that they can > > cut us off from our ability to survive. > > > What exactly did the reply from Google say? =A0Did it include the words > > "assimilate", "resistance" and "futile" anywhere? > > I have historically complained and got no response. Today I actually got > a reply. It was more an automated e-mail. > > There was an earlier article which implied that if google got more than > a certain number of complaints from different IP addresses they would > take action. > > If a few more people from this newsgroup took action we may be able to > get google to do something. I think what you may have seen about Google responding to complaints is when someone mentioned that using the "Report Spam" control would delete the offending post once some minimum number of reports were made from some minimum number of IP addresses. I have been using the Report Spam control and on occasion I manage to make the Nth report that causes the post to go away. But the spammers are overwhelming in some groups where I have given up. This group is getting more spam every week and I am getting tired of all the stupid clicking required to report it. Google does a great job of filtering spam from email in Gmail. I can't think of a reason why they can't use the same techniques to filter spam from here. In fact, it has been reported that most of the spam showing up in newsgroups *comes* from Google Group posters. Certainly Google could put some controls in place to prevent that. As I originally said, I give up. I don't see how reporting spam here is worth the effort. RickArticle: 150219
On 12/31/2010 6:27 PM, Pete Fraser wrote:
> "Mike Treseler"<mtreseler@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:8o7cufF6ttU1@mid.individual.net...
>
>> Logic synthesis may be going the way of the mechanical cash register.
>> Interesting in theory.
>
> Why do you say that?
>
>
Because many tasks that were once performed by
FPGAs, Asics and custom hardware are now covered
by servers in the closet or in the cloud.
-- Mike Treseler
Article: 150220On 01/01/11 19:26, luudee wrote: > > It seems this issue is coming up again and again, with each new ISE > release. > > I am running Fedora 14, x86_64, and installed ISE 12.4. > > And of course the platform USB cables stopped working ... > > libusb is installed, and the drivers are installed .... > > but impact is giving me this: > ........ > AutoDetecting cable. Please wait. > If you are using the Platform Cable USB, please refer to the USB Cable > Installation Guide (UG344) to install the libusb package. > Connecting to cable (Usb Port - USB21). > Checking cable driver. > Linux release = 2.6.36.2.RU1. > WARNING:iMPACT - Module windrvr6 is not loaded. Please reinstall the > cable > drivers. See Answer Record 22648. > Cable connection failed. > Connecting to cable (Parallel Port - parport0). > Linux release = 2.6.36.2.RU1. > WARNING:iMPACT - Module windrvr6 is not loaded. Please reinstall the > cable > drivers. See Answer Record 22648. > Linux release = 2.6.36.2.RU1. > WARNING:iMPACT - Module parport_pc is not loaded. Please reinstall > the cable > drivers. See Answer Record 22648. > Cable connection failed. does fxload load the firmware? check lsusb for Product-ID 0008. The "tempnode" string in the udev-rules is case sensitive. Can't remember if upper or lower case is correct, but I had to change it once. Do you have the symlink /usr/lib/libusb.so -> /usr/lib/libusb-[Version].so This link was not created by default in my distribution and caused problems in previous releases(don't know about fedora) HTHArticle: 150221
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:57:06 -0800, rickman wrote: > The spam in Google groups has only gotten worse lately and there seems > to be no end in sight. This group is getting hard to find the real > posts in and some of the other groups are just plain unusable with five > or ten spam messages to every real message. > > Rather than to add spam filters as most newsgroup access providers do, > Google has invented an entirely new interface with an entirely new look, > with the ability to flag a post as spam (or otherwise inappropriate) and > it is hidden from your view. > > That would be great, except that the new interface sucks compared to the > old one. Maybe it is just that I'm used to the old one, but I have > tried the new one in one of the groups I access and I don't seem to be > liking it any more than when I first saw it. > > For a company that is so good at search engines, why can't they > understand anything about how newsgroups should work? > > Rick I use news.individual.net, it costs 10 Euros/year. I don't see any spam in this newsgroup or in any of the Linux newsgroups that I frequent. I use PAN as a newsreader. Google groups is an awful way to access news groups, not only is it SPAM ridden but the UI is unusable. You should be using a real newsreader with a properly filtered news server.Article: 150222
On 29 Dez. 2010, 17:32, Dave <starfire...@cableone.net> wrote: > In addition to the responses you've had so far, don't you need to > include the port for the reset line input and also include it in your > process sensitivity list? No as this seems to be a synchronous reset which is internal generated.Article: 150223
On 29 Dez. 2010, 19:22, Nicolas Matringe <nicolas.matri...@fre.fre> wrote: > Le 29/12/2010 16:43, Santosh a crit : > > > > > I have got a clock divider code as follows: > > > entity divClk8 is > > =A0 =A0 Port ( CLK : in std_logic; > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0CLK_OUT : out std_logic); > > end divClk8; > > > architecture Behavioral of divClk8 is > > signal count : std_logic_vector (3 downto 0) :=3D "1111"; > > signal reset : std_logic :=3D '0'; > > > begin > > process(CLK) > > begin > > if(reset =3D '1') then > > count<=3D "0000"; > > elsif(rising_edge(CLK)) then > > count<=3D count + 1; > > end if; > > end process; > > CLK_OUT<=3D count(3); > > reset<=3D (count(3) and not(count(2))and not(count(1))and > > not(count(0))); > > end Behavioral; > > > But when I try to compile it using ModelSim I get the following error > > > -- =A0No feasible entries for infix operator "+". Type error resolving > > infix expression "+" as type ieee.std_logic_1164.std_logic_vector. > > What do you plan to do with your divided clock output ? It will be a > short glith-like pulse that will be very dependent on many things > (mainly temperature) that won't be very usable. Please explain your problems with the functional code? I would have written it a bit shorter, but can't see a problem in generating a divided clock with 8 cycles '0' and 8 cycles '1' bye ThomasArticle: 150224
"Santosh" <santos2k7@gmail.com> wrote in message news:17ff8d8d-0fa9-41d3-8946-53879f254399@r8g2000prm.googlegroups.com... >I have got a clock divider code as follows: > > entity divClk8 is > Port ( CLK : in std_logic; > CLK_OUT : out std_logic); > end divClk8; > > architecture Behavioral of divClk8 is > signal count : std_logic_vector (3 downto 0) := "1111"; > signal reset : std_logic := '0'; > > begin > process(CLK) > begin > if(reset = '1') then > count <= "0000"; > elsif(rising_edge(CLK)) then > count <= count + 1; > end if; > end process; > CLK_OUT <= count(3); > reset <= (count(3) and not(count(2))and not(count(1))and > not(count(0))); > end Behavioral; > > > > But when I try to compile it using ModelSim I get the following error > > -- No feasible entries for infix operator "+". Type error resolving > infix expression "+" as type ieee.std_logic_1164.std_logic_vector. Lots of potential issues with this code, but try: count <= count + "1"; -- now with quotes on the 1
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