SSH on NeXTSTEP and CIA
Late yesterday I decided to do a Google search on NeXTSTEP and SSH to see if anyone had built an SSH client for NeXTSTEP. What I found was the 'commercial' version of SSH that came in two versions - 1.x and 2.x. I got both and tried to get them both to compile. The 2.x version was hopeless due to signal differences, and the 1.x version needed me to write strdup() - but that wasn't bad. In the end I have a 1.x version of SSH which is a lot better than telnet.
Yesterday was a little slow because I didn't spend much time in the office. There were a lot of things that needing doing around the house, and so most of the day was spent away from this wonderful playroom. It's nice to be back this morning.
This evening I got word from Joel that the ISP guys had finally gotten around to installing GTK 1.2.8 development includes and libraries so I could get back to building CIA on their machines. Thankfully, it built fine, so now I'm in the process of transferring up a few slides so that I can test the speed and overall functionality. It should be fine, but I have no idea as to the speed issue. My guess is that it's reasonably fast, but nothing to write home about.
I also spent a bit of time today writing out my goals/plans/etc. for CIA and sent them to the rest of the guys. I'm hoping that this starts the process to either get serious about CIA or get out. I don't really care which, but if they wait too long I'll decide for them in what I do professionally.
UPDATE: I did a similar run on sparky and the ISP hosting the CIA website. I used the Dako #6 run with the following options: '-op -om -m' so as not to impact the FFTW time on one machine and not another. What I got was:
| Machine | User CPU (sec) |
System (sec) |
Elapsed (mm:ss) |
| sparky | 244 | 1 | 4:06 |
| www.cellanalysis.com | 68.8 | 1 | 1:38 |
Which means that the ISP is running at about 28.2% of sparky. This is nice to know so that I can get a reasonable idea of production runtimes by looking at the runtimes on sparky and then multiplying by 0.282. Not like it's brain surgery, but it's nice to know.