I recently had a chance to learn a little about Bioinformatics, and ended up browsing the NIH’s database of genomes here. Inside the genome data for any particular strain of a species, you’ll find various files with file extensions like “ffa”, “fna”, “ffn” and “frn”. These are FASTA files. If you’d like an example, here’s…
Back in the day, Paradox was a pretty amazing database. I recently had a reason to read some Paradox files for a friend, who had a client with a Paradox database. They needed their data out of the database to insert into something more modern. Googling for the file format of a Paradox DB didn’t…
The FreeBSD ARM team have completed the work to support multicore on ARM. You can read the announcement here. I’ve made a new build of FreeBSD ARM for Wandboard, which you can download here. The dmesg output is here, and here is the sysctl showing four cores [Kroot@wandboard:~ # sysctl -a | grep hw.ncpu hw.ncpu:…
Pragmatach version 1.38 has been released Here are the notable changes: Numerous bugs that were identified by Findbugs have been resolved. Upgraded from Antlr3 to Antlr4 Upgraded to scannotation 1.03 Added url_for API to make generation of urls in templates simpler
There is no official pkgng repo for FreeBSD-arm, yet. There is an unofficial one, here, however in order to use it, you have to have pkgng installed. As far as I can tell, the only way to install pkgng on ARM is to builds and install from source. On the platform I’m using, Wandboard, the…
I got interested in building my own wireless point after seeing some of the wireless firmware issues like this. Besides, I’ve always been interested in embedded devices and FreeBSD. So, the first step was a device. I chose to use a Wandboard. I’m a committer to Crochet-FreeBSD, so I built out the device support for…
The latest release of the Pragmatach Framework is version 1.32. Changes in this release include: Bug fix in JMX registration. Web contexts can now be reloaded by the container and the JMX beans are gracefully unregistered and re-registered Addition of the @Startup and @Shutdown annotations to allow methods to be run at container shutdown and…
Introduction This is my 3rd blog posting on the topic of the Crochet-FreeBSD ARM boot process. The other two are here and here. At long last, I have the Crochet-FreeBSD build for Wandboard working properly, with U-boot and ubldr. This article will serve, I hope, to document the entire process and give others a…
Some time ago I was part of the effort to add Wandboard support to Crochet-FreeBSD. I wrote a blog posting about it here. An explanation of how Crochet-FreeBSD boots the Wandboard is below: The Wandboard uses U-Boot as its initial boot-loader. A number of patches to the U-Boot source are required, and you…
Adding Wandboard support to Crochet-FreeBSD has been a project of mine for a while. After this fascinating kernel fix, I can now build a working image and boot FreeBSD-Current. Here is an example boot log, and here’s an image file. The output of dmesg, with a USB wireless adapter in the board, is: KDB:…