Electrical schematics on Linux?

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As an aside, the Texas Attorney General just made it illegal for government agencies to my MS Vista.

Budget ?rider? would bid ?Hasta la vista? to Windows Vista By Peggy Fikac - Express-News

By Peggy Fikac - Express-News

AUSTIN ? It could be ?Hasta la vista, baby? to state agency purchases of Microsoft?s Windows Vista information technology under a proposed state budget provision.

The ?rider? in the proposed two-year, $182.2 billion state budget ? expected to be taken up Wednesday by the Texas Senate ? would require state agencies to get written approval from the Legislative Budget Board before buying Vista technology related to an operating system, equipment or licenses.

Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, added the provision in committee and said it?s meant to block purchases of the technology, which has been targeted by criticism: ?Don?t buy it, because it?s not worth it.?

Hinojosa, Senate Finance Committee vice chairman, said, ?We have a lot of problems with the Vista program. It had a lot of bugs. It takes up a lot of memory. It?s not compatible with other equipment, and it?s supposed to be an upgrade from the XP program that is being used by state agencies, and it?s not.?

Microsoft spokesperson Tonya Klause* said in a statement, ?Microsoft has long demonstrated a sustained commitment to Texas, which is why this development is disappointing. The company has more than 1,500* employees who work in Texas, and only last year we opened a new $500 million data center in San Antonio*.

Given our daily work with government agencies and longstanding technology partnership, we?re surprised that the Texas Senate Finance Committee adopted a rider which, in effect, singles out a specific corporation and product for unequal treatment. We hope as the budget continues to go through the process this language will be removed.?

Tech journalist Ed Bott, who specializes in Windows, said it?s not unusual for an information technology (IT) department to decide to hold off on buying a new technology, but he said it?s unusual for lawmakers to decree it: ?I don?t think it makes any sense for any kind of legislative body to be making IT decisions. That?s what you hire your professional staff to do. That?s a level of micromanagement that is breathtaking to me.?

He said many of Vista?s problems have been solved by service packs, patches and more compatible hardware and software.

According to the Texas Department of Information Resources, 44 state agencies are using Vista products at varying levels, ranging from purchases of $122 to nearly $1.6 million. The agency?s David Duncan said any that had problems with Vista wouldn?t go to the department: ?They?d go back to the vendor they bought it from.?

Higher education institutions would be exempt from Hinojosa?s rider.

Comments:

Ed Bott is famous for vehemently pro-Microsoft views and his defense of anything Microsoft chooses to do or say. He's by no means impartial--you could have made a better choice for someone to ask for an "expert opinion."

The file in question has a text portion, and a binary portion. The text portion is not dependent on the number of characters as is the binary portion ... and the text replacement should *always* be "#!/usr/bin/env bash" for absolute portability, as some OS's have /usr/bin/bash.

The standard version of Eagle is free for personal use.

No, it's not (at least not in the US or Germany). The Lite version is free for personal (non-commercial) use. Standard is $750 if you want the schematic/layout/autorouter:

I stand corrected. Yes, you're right.

There used to be a (very :-) light version on some SUSE-Distribution. Perhaps version 8.0 IIRC?

nice weekend, Holger

Hi; minor nit: gif format is a far better choice for images like this than jpeg. Jpeg was designed for photograph compression and does very poorly with data like this. Gif was designed for diagrams and things, and would give you a much smaller and sharper image than jpeg.

In article , Ignoramus12193 wrote: :On 2009-04-02, Larry Jaques wrote: :> On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:17:58 -0500, the infamous Ignoramus12193 :> scrawled the following: :>

:>>

:>>I never lost any data on my computer. :>>

:>>I take backups very seriously. :>>

:>>I consider backups to be the single most important task of any :>>computer. :>

:> Agreed, but did you from day one? If so, you'd be the first person :> I've ever met to have done so. :>

: :I did it from day one, yes. Or maybe from the first or second :year. But I was fortunate in that I started backing things up before I :had any data loss.

Absolutely from day one here. I have many not-so-fond memories of Norton Backup and the rather large sets of floppy disks needed to back up my first '386.

Walmart, of all places is selling aN emachines XP computer, with a

In article , cavelamb wrote: :Robert Nichols wrote: :> In article , :> Ian Bell wrote: :> :Grant Edwards wrote: :> :> On 2009-04-01, Baron wrote: :> :> :> :>> Try "Cadsoft's" Eagle its a pcb program but the schematic drawing is :> :>> brilliant! :> :> :> :> On the contrary, it's a schematic drawing program, but the PCB :> :> layout feature is brilliant. ;) :> :> :> :>> Its even better if you want to make a PCB from your :> :>> circuit ! :> :> :> :> It especially convenient if your PCB vendor accepts Eagle :> :> project files directly (e.g. Olimex). That way you don't have :> :> to generate gerbers (which is always harder than it should be). :> :> :> : :> : :> :Except it is rather expensive unsless you only want to make a small PCB. :> :> If it's a small circuit board (1/2 Eurocard max), 2 layers, and a single :> schematic page, just use EAGLE's freeware license. There's also a :> non-profit license available at a quite modest cost. :> : :That's too small for most thing other than a simple pic or something.

You can work around that if you're willing to put a bit of effort into it. Does an architect need a 1500 sq. ft. piece of paper to draw a floor plan for a house? It's not all that much work to make 1/10 or

As for the single page schematic limitation, the size of that page and the number of frames you put on it is essentially unlimited. Position the frames and set the print scaling right, and each frame comes out on its own sheet. There's actually an advantage to doing that -- it makes it _way_ easier to move parts from one sheet to another.

As long as the transition from text to binary is well demarcated.

Now *that* is a nice trick. I've just learned something here.

Thanks!

So -- do the systems which use bash as /bin/sh also have it present under its full name? A simple link would assure that, but whether it is present on those systems remains to be seen.

On OpenBSD, /bin/sh is linked to /bin/ksh and /bin/rksh (restricted shell, not remote shell).

Though I do suspect that it does not exist on some of my older systems, especially the v7 unix on a 68000 system (COSMOS CMS/UNX or something like that), or perhaps the BSD 4.2 based Tekronix 6130s, and the AT&T based Unix-PCs (68010 CPU, so not a "PC" in the sense of having an Intel CPU and being able to run some form of MS-DOS or Windows. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

Especially if you limit it to two colors -- black and white. It makes for a *very* compact image file. (Be careful to not allow grayscales, or you have 8-bits per pixel instead of one bit per pixel, and color gives you 24 bits per pixel, which is even worse.

Enjoy, DoN.

It sure is -- thanks indeed!

On every such system I've seen, yes.

Yes

They are. But there is a now a huge 'middle market' in th 100 to 500 USD region and there are dozens of products.

Yes it is pretty good, but then I am biased as I run its yahoo group ;-)

Cheers

Ian

Ubuntu has electric in synaptic. Look here for info

Can't you use an alias pointing to bash?

Wes

In addition to all the other programs, there's Dia, a diagram drawing program that has electrical symbol library.

Or TIF or PNG or ... Almost *anything* is better for line drawings than JPG.