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Robert Lipe Home Page
This is the home site for Robert Lipe. My wife, Linda, and son, Ryan may
also park things here from time to time. The SCO OpenServer GNU DS,
and a number of miscellaneous
software packages including the Kernel Memory Editor, the Simple Text
Editor, and the Virtual Terminal Creator are also kept here.
Last updated $Date: 2002/02/22 20:18:12 $.
I like to build things. Right now, I have a number of projects;
computer related and otherwise.
Software mastered at this site.
A FREE OpenServer Development System.
I did the SCO OpenServer 5 port of the GNU development toolsthat was
included on Skunkware 5, Skunkware '96, and Skunkware 5.1.
This is the
top level documentation for it.
NoteThis is the 95q4c version. It includes
C++ and GDB in both ELF and COFF and a newer version of all the underlying
GNU code than what's on the Skunkware disk.
SCOalso mirrors a copy of this code
at their
GDS Web page
or the
GDS FTP site
Checking out the FAQ for this set of tools might not be a bad idea.
SCO Programmer FAQ
I grew tired of reading and writing the answers to the same questions
repeatedly in the
comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup. Since I couldn't bait anyone
else into maintaining the list of Frequently Asked Questions, I started
a list and fed them into the Faq-O-Matic. In April 99, this FAQ became
hosted by Boyd Gerber.
You can see the resulting
FAQ for comp.unix.sco.programmer
.
Simple Text Editor
Have you been looking for a Simple Text Editor?
Designed specifically for the computer impaired, it's great for Email.
It works on most any flavor of UNIX, and has received heavy use.
UNIX Serial Benchmarks.
Tbench is a UNIX serial I/O performance and
reliabilty test program.
Kernel Memory Editor.
KME is a Kernel Memory Editorthat allows you
to view and edit memory in a semi-realtime spreadsheet-like manner.
02/22/02 - The version on this page was out of date. We put it on SourceForge
about a year ago and the infrastucture is much nicer in that version. Check it out!
Virtual Terminal Creator.
VTL, the virtual terminal creator, allows
you to create login sessions on other virtual consoles or on
remote ttys.
Software mastered at other sites, but enhanced by me.
UDI - the Uniform Driver Interface.
I have been a major contributor to the creation of a
specification
and
implementation
of a highly engineered driver model that allows independent innovation
in drivers and operating systems.
Connectix QuickCam support for SCO.
I did some work with the Connectix
QuickCam. Starting from the good work of
other QuickCam developers,
I have added
SCO OpenServer 5.0 driver support for the unit. Note:The released
1.1 version version of this driver needs this patch installed for use on SCO.
You might find this
archive of other code for the QuickCam useful.
Personal stuff.
I realize that good help is hard to find, and interns are one
of the best sources of cheap labor. Accordingly, my
youngest coworker works hard to stay atop industry trends.
You will notice that he is in full conformance with the mandatory dress
code at my home office.
I'm partnering in a project to build a people. Ryan moved
in with us in Jan of '96. He's amazing. He never knows his own strength
because he's stronger each day. He has no fear and isn't smart enough to
realize what he can't (or shouldn't) do. While these sound like good
characteristics in the lead for the next James Bond flick, they're unnerving
in a kid. He's much more fun than he used to be. He's quite mobile
and is finally read/write. He understands compound phrases like, "Ryan,
get your jacket and we'll go outside." He has a limited vocabulary,
but no longer is his interrupt identifiation register the biological
equivalent of the idiot ("Check Engine") light. It's much less frustrating
now that we can ask what his deal is and he can point to his feet to
remind me that I put his shoes on backwards or can walk to the kitchen
and beat on the pantry door to remind me that we forgot to eat.
Linda and I took up tandem biking in spring of '95. Yes, Ryan
joins us in the trailer. WarningThis Vehicle Makes Wide
Turns!We've never made a century (100 miles) here
in the hills of Tennessee. We have done a couple of 50's and
had a blast.
We've biked the Natchez Trace (from Nashville to Natches, Mississippi)
and the Katy Trail in 1997, racking about 120 miles on each over a week.
We attended the Midwest Tandem Rally in Columbus, OH in '98 and the one
outside Chicago in '00. Over 600 tandem teams attended each. What a
spectacle!
What has three heads and is eleven feet long? This!
I also like to do woodworking. Cabinetry seems to be what I
have most fun with. I just finished a toybox for Ryan.
Ryan does all sorts of crazy things. We've already started collecting
blackmail material for when he gets older. For example, we have
him doing one
of his favorite things as well as another of him
mocking the local United Auto Workers union.
If you want to see all the fotos on this page together and inline, this makes it easier. It also contains additional annotations
on the fotos.
Ryan, Linda, and I have recently taken up
Geocaching. This is a fun sport that's a combination of treasure hunt and
scavenger hunt but is really a reason to play with my
Magellan 330
GPS Receiver and go trapse around the country. You can read about
fun we've had.
This was taken at SCO Forum '95 by Aris Stathakis, now of
Caldera, when he was still in South Africa .
I must have been concentrating on something, for I don't recall the pizza
being that notable...
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the very spirit of open systems to have pages viewable only by one browser.
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or other users running Lynx. The next time you see a
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if the people that wrote the web page you want to view really are the
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