Category Archives: David Evans

XMOS development

Posted on September 8, 2014 by David Evans

Last week I was given an XMOS startKIT. It is based on a multicore microcontroller and includes a bit of I/O. Looks nifty. Some noise to follow.

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Xilinx Vivado 2014.2 on Xubuntu 14.04

Posted on June 23, 2014 by David Evans

Lately I’ve been playing with the Xilinx Zynq 7000 FPGA/ARM platform, using the Digilent Zybo development board. The ability to design some hardware and then write a device driver for it (in my case for Linux) without excessive faff is … Continue reading →

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Semi-automated, semi-secure marking

Posted on January 27, 2014 by David Evans

Given the wad of marking I have, I wanted to automate at least some parts of the task. Furthermore, I wanted to run submissions such that they couldn’t do much damage (caused as much by student error as maliciousness). Here … Continue reading →

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Computer Forensic Investigation timetables for fall 2013

Posted on September 22, 2013 by David Evans

Hola! Here are timetables for CFI for the fall 2013 semester. Enjoy! http://computing.derby.ac.uk/~dfe/f490_y1_f_timetable.pdf http://computing.derby.ac.uk/~dfe/f490_y2_f_timetable.pdf http://computing.derby.ac.uk/~dfe/f490_y3_f_timetable.pdf

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DEBS Day 1

Posted on July 1, 2013 by David Evans

Hola! The keynote, Rise of the Velocity Pipeline, by Roger Barga of Microsoft, talked about the use of event-based analytics in business. In many ways it wasn’t very surprising, talking about the increase in the number of connected devices and so on. … Continue reading →

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At the DEBS conference

Posted on June 30, 2013 by David Evans

I am at the 7th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems in Arlington, Texas. http://www.orgs.ttu.edu/debs2013/ On Sunday morning I attended the tutorial entitled Stream Processing Optimizations, by Scott Schneider and Martin Hirzel, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Buğra Gedik, Computer Engineering … Continue reading →

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PS2 Linux kit video mode

Posted on April 12, 2013 by David Evans

I was cursing a lot before finding the answer to this. The “runtime environment” for PS2 Linux tends to boot showing VGA video. To make it do NTSC, hold Select-R1; PAL Select-R2. For the X server: For NTSC type: startx … Continue reading →

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Interesting stuff of late

Posted on April 8, 2013 by David Evans

Wow, it seems like I have been dead since November! What have I been up to? Marking: Those who took Networks and Security, 5CC515, in fall 2012 know what this is all about. Never again (and that will help students … Continue reading →

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In first year and confused by timetables?

Posted on January 18, 2013 by David Evans

Are you in first year on a course in the CS Scheme (CS, CGP, N&S, CFI) and are the online timetables getting you down? Check out http://computing.derby.ac.uk/~dfe/ComputerScience_Year1_Spring.pdf It is for week 1 only as it lacks tutorials but it should get … Continue reading →

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Change to office hours

Posted on November 2, 2012 by David Evans

Banal, yes, but some of you like seeinmg such things here. A research meeting means that I must curtail my office hours on Monday November 5th; they will start at 15:00 rather than 14:00. Furthermore, I shall be attending a … Continue reading →

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