Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

I have watched this some time back, wanted to put down the funny dialogue here:
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Muffley:

Hello? Hello, Dimitri? Listen, I can't hear too well, do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? Oh, that's much better. Yes. Fine, I can hear you now, Dimitri. Clear and plain and coming through fine. I'm coming through fine too, eh? Good, then. Well then as you say we're both coming through fine. Good. Well it's good that you're fine and I'm fine. I agree with you. It's great to be fine. laughs Now then Dimitri. You know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb. Well now what happened is, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of, well he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a little... funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing. Well, I'll tell you what he did, he ordered his planes... to attack your country. Well let me finish, Dimitri. Let me finish, Dimitri. Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it? Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dimitri? Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello? Of course I like to speak to you. Of course I like to say hello. Not now, but any time, Dimitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened. It's a friendly call. Of course it's a friendly call. Listen, if it wasn't friendly, ... you probably wouldn't have even got it. They will not reach their targets for at least another hour. I am... I am positive, Dimitri. Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick. Well I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes. Yes! I mean, if we're unable to recall the planes, then I'd say that, uh, well, we're just going to have to help you destroy them, Dimitri. I know they're our boys. Alright, well, listen... who should we call? Who should we call, Dimitri? The people...? Sorry, you faded away there. The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters. Where is that, Dimitri? In Omsk. Right. Yes. Oh, you'll call them first, will you? Uh huh. Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dimitri? What? I see, just ask for Omsk Information. I'm sorry too, Dimitri. I'm very sorry. Alright! You're sorrier than I am! But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are, Dimitri. Don't say that you are more sorry than I am, because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we're both sorry, alright? Alright. Yes he's right here. Yes, he wants to talk to you. Just a second.

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tips related to beagle board

those who wish to buy a beagle board, buy beagle board xm, not the c4 version which is widely available outside compared to xm version.

c4 version needs a powered usb hub to connect a key board and mouse. Also, for ethernet connection, a usb to ethernet adapter is needed.

For all these days, i am searching for a dvi monitor to see the beagle board booting process. But the better solution would be to use a remote desktop option using x11vnc or some vnc server application on the beagle board.

minimal things required:

1. xm version board
2. one straight cable db9 to db9 (male to female)
3. although 4gb card is available with the purchased version, it is better to start with 8gb.
minimal software: x11vnc server to see the booting process remotely.

that is all for now.

an update:

some other development boards: panda board (174$) , st-ericsson snow ball. these new ones include wifi, bluetooth also. great !!

ubuntu installation on beagle board

Today i just finished installing ubuntu 11.04 ompa3 version on my beagle board. it is quite simple and took couple of minutes. I am wondering if there is a way to partition the sd card on windows machine. Every time i need to partition the card on linux machine. Anyways, it is good to see the complete gui installation screens on the little serial monitor winodow.

I have used 4Gig sd card.

Download from : http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/11.04/release/

link: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/11.04/release/ubuntu-11.04-preinstalled-headless-armel+omap.img.gz

on a linux machine: execute this command after inserting the card.

1. gunzip -c ubuntu-11.04-preinstalled-headless-armel+.img.gz | sudo dd bs=4M of=/dev/ 2. sync

code generation scicoslab/scicos

c/c++ code generation from system blocks (Matlab/Simulink, Scilab/xcos, ScicosLab/Scicos) is really helpful for rapid-prototyping.

some documentation available here: http://www.scicos.org/CodeGen_doc.pdf


ScicosLab/Scicos provides (also Scilab/xcos) code-generation facility for generating a stand-alone “c” code. The generated file can be linked to various interface modules.


Create a block diagram in Scicos. Select the relevant blocks and make them as super block. And make it as super-block for code generation. Select “code generation” from the tool bar and generate the code for the super-block.



xxx_standalone.c
xxx_act_sens_events.c
libxxx.lib

where xxx is the name of the workspace.

Include these files in the visual-studio and create an executable.

Open loop response of 2nd order system:

I have given some constant input 1.0 in the “xxx_act_sens_events.c”
*((double *) y+(k+l*(*ny1))) =1.0;

Otherwise the program will be asking the input continuously for every iteration.


Ol1.txt is generated from the “generated code”
foo.txt is from the scicos generated output.

Beagle Board

After some struggle, I could able to boot the beagle board (version c4) with Angstrom OS.
Initially, I felt it is very difficult to test the board without the OS.

All we need: 3 wires and a USB mini cable/5v adapter : To test the board with out OS, we just need 3 wires if the correct cables are not available : ATI/everex IDC 10 cable + female to female DB9 null modem cable).
rs232 Pin out structure of beagle board:1. Connect the Rx pin of the beagle board (#2) to the Tx of the computer serial port (#3).
2. Connect the Tx pin of the beagle board (#3) to the Rx pin of the computer serial port (#2).
3. Connect the ground pin of the beagle board to the ground pin of the computer serial port (#5).

Beagle board c4 with IDC 10 cable:
The red color of the IDC 10 cable should be connected near to the pin #1. Also, the cable will have 9 holes (make a hole using a small pin).

Serial cable (Db9 female to female)

Open the hyper terminal, and configure the com#1 (usuall com#1) with 115200 baud rate and flow control: none
By using either the cables or self made configuration cables, connect the board to the serial port of the pc and power it on. Beagle board will boot with the boot loader existing in the NAND memory.

Beagle board with Angstrom OS:

The board I have is Beagle board rev c4. So, I need to make to some changes in the loader.
1. Follow the instructions mentioned in this link: http://beagleboard.org/challenge

2. Copy the necessary files (MLO, u-boot.in) and angstrom files to the SD card. I have used 1 GB SD card. Follow exactly the instructions mentioned here:
1. format instructions: http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/LinuxBootDiskFormat
2. section 2 of this : http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/HowToGetAngstromRunning

Beagle board with Angstrom OS:

Only thing left is connecting the Beagle board to the video display. I tried connecting to a monitor using HDMI male to DVI female + DVI female to VGA. But didn't work.

Update: Luckily I found dvi male to male converter and dvi monitor. Connected the board to the dvi monitor:

Here is the beagle board c4 with angstrom OS:
Booting phase:


Angstrom OS:
Still keyboard, mouse are not connected. May be USB port needs a powered USB hub. Will update it soon.

more on Kindle

I have been using for a while (finished reading one Novel).

1. it is good and nice to read a hard-copy. it is quite boring to read the whole world on a slate always. it is obvious that we will get a feel with a new book always.
2. reading news is really a boring thing on Kindle.
3. updated the kindle software, but still not getting the page numbers for kindle based content. (may be, not updated for the novels, i bought).
4. people around me are still thinking that i am holding a gadget. so my wife throws it whenever i am holding it all the time. she doesn't say anything if i hold newspapers, books all the time. (see the real difference).
5. i can not use it anywhere i want (what if it fells down from my hand). but you can read a hard-copy book wherever you want.

so, better buy an ipad kind of a device.

Reactive

Some times I used to watch people's behavior crossing the roads. They walk slowly with great confidence in them. Like, "the driver will be killed if I am hit". isn't it funny.

/Srinivas

Stirrer

I surprised my wife with a gift. She is also very much surprised after looking at. (she thought it must be some kind of gold jewelery).

I presented a plastic stirrer (during flight journey I was served a drink with a stirrer). I kept it in my pocket without throwing it into the dustbin.

Whenever I go to hotel with my wife, she always asks me to steal the stirrer served with the drink. I have no courage to do that simple stupid thing for my wife.

Kindle wifi

This month, I bought one gadget Amazon KINDLE wi-fi. Few things I wanted to put here straightly,
1. Buying books and the Kindle content is very tempting.
2. KINDLE content is very costly for Indian customers. We can get almost 5 news papers (hard-copy, 500 INR) for the one KINDLE e-news paper. And BTW, only few Indian news papers are available in KINDLE version.
3. It is meant for KINDLE content, I can say the best for reading kindle books.
4. The experimental browser should be good for at least micro-blogging. The browser should be rich, so not at all good for reading the content.
5. -- I wish it can be a quick-note taking application, an organizer in future versions of KINDLE.

Will post more on this, as I am still exploring with it.

/Srinivas