mails from Aman Mediratta

I was just wondering if also other peoples in this group get private mails 
from Aman Mediratta, asking for technical support with EDK, etc. For me it 
looks like he is mass-mailing his support-questions. Also a way to get 
support... I would call it "support-spam". (I tried to shortly explain him 
that there are newsgroups for this yesterday, just to get another mail 
today).

Thomas 

"Thomas Entner" <aon.912710880@aon.at> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:4311c25c$0$27166$91cee783@newsreader01.highway.telekom.at...
> I was just wondering if also other peoples in this group get private mails
> from Aman Mediratta, asking for technical support with EDK, etc. For me it

Me too ;-)

> looks like he is mass-mailing his support-questions. Also a way to get
> support... I would call it "support-spam". (I tried to shortly explain him
> that there are newsgroups for this yesterday, just to get another mail
> today).

The road to wisdom is long and full of stones.

Regards
Falk

>>I was just wondering if also other peoples in this group get private mails
>>from Aman Mediratta

yep, me too.

Thanks, I'll train my spam-filter ;-)

Thomas

www.entner-electronics.com

"Falk Brunner" <Falk.Brunner@gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:3ne289F13ae5U1@individual.net...
>
> "Thomas Entner" <aon.912710880@aon.at> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:4311c25c$0$27166$91cee783@newsreader01.highway.telekom.at...
>> I was just wondering if also other peoples in this group get private 
>> mails
>> from Aman Mediratta, asking for technical support with EDK, etc. For me 
>> it
>
> Me too ;-)
>
>> looks like he is mass-mailing his support-questions. Also a way to get
>> support... I would call it "support-spam". (I tried to shortly explain 
>> him
>> that there are newsgroups for this yesterday, just to get another mail
>> today).
>
> The road to wisdom is long and full of stones.
>
> Regards
> Falk
>
> 

Thomas,

I was wondering about that.

I call it the "student surprise" issue.

The student suddenly realizes they have to do work, and then go about 
trying to find out how to get it done.

This is my standard reply:

"Aman,

Specifically, you need to join the university support forum:

http://www.xilinx.com/univ/profsupport.htm

This page is for university and school students, and their questions.

It is a separate and complete support system.

http://toolbox.xilinx.com/cgi-bin/forum

is a list of useful forums we sponsor, and newsgroups that might be 
helpful.  Although it mentions comp.arch.fpga, I suspect you will get 
better help from one of the targeted forums (embedded processors looks 
appropriate).

The questions you are asking are all typical of systems archectecture. 
To architect a system, one has to balance all of the advatages and 
disadvantages of each architecture, and strike the balance that 
satisfies the requirements.

In fact, you should devote time, energy, and document the process of 
architecting the system for your advisors in your report or thesis.  It 
is a valuable part of demonstrating that you can actually engineer 
something in the future.
These things may be answered in part for you, but you will have to do 
the real work of assembling the alternatives (on paper) and evaluating 
the pros and cons, and then making the choices, and then doing the work.

You have some idea what is involved (ie DLL's), but you have not mapped 
out all the potential solutions.  The forums may provide you with others 
who have DLLs, or have done what you want to do already.

In very general terms, if the solution can be directly mapped to the 
logic of the FPGA, that is always the simplest and most direct solution.

The 405PPC is useful when you don't have room for the logic (some runs 
slow, and can be mapped to the processor - in effect the reverse of C to 
gates, gates back to C).  The "ultracontroller" is an IP core we provide 
which is very good for this, as you need no operating system, or bus 
structure, or in fact, anything at all to just run some C code and 
provide solutions for your problems.

http://www.xilinx.com/bvdocs/appnotes/xapp672.pdf

Good luck,

Austin"

You have my permission to notify any student that there is a whol eother 
world of support out there, designed just for them, and then mark them 
as spam, and continue with your own work.

The nect generationn of Xilinx FPGA users is important to us for the 
future, but folks on this newsgroup are important to us RIGHT NOW for 
the designs they are doing.

Thanks for letting us all know we have a more creative than usual 
student out there...

Austin

Thomas Entner wrote:

> I was just wondering if also other peoples in this group get private mails 
> from Aman Mediratta, asking for technical support with EDK, etc. For me it 
> looks like he is mass-mailing his support-questions. Also a way to get 
> support... I would call it "support-spam". (I tried to shortly explain him 
> that there are newsgroups for this yesterday, just to get another mail 
> today).
> 
> Thomas 
> 
> 

Me too...


"Falk Brunner" <Falk.Brunner@gmx.de> wrote in message 
news:3ne289F13ae5U1@individual.net...
>
> "Thomas Entner" <aon.912710880@aon.at> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:4311c25c$0$27166$91cee783@newsreader01.highway.telekom.at...
>> I was just wondering if also other peoples in this group get private 
>> mails
>> from Aman Mediratta, asking for technical support with EDK, etc. For me 
>> it
>
> Me too ;-)
>
>> looks like he is mass-mailing his support-questions. Also a way to get
>> support... I would call it "support-spam". (I tried to shortly explain 
>> him
>> that there are newsgroups for this yesterday, just to get another mail
>> today).
>
> The road to wisdom is long and full of stones.
>
> Regards
> Falk
>
> 

And me too.

John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd. - Home of Broaddown2. The Ultimate Spartan3 Development 
Board.
http://www.enterpoint.co.uk

"Thomas Entner" <aon.912710880@aon.at> wrote in message 
news:4311c25c$0$27166$91cee783@newsreader01.highway.telekom.at...
>I was just wondering if also other peoples in this group get private mails 
>from Aman Mediratta, asking for technical support with EDK, etc. For me it 
>looks like he is mass-mailing his support-questions. Also a way to get 
>support... I would call it "support-spam". (I tried to shortly explain him 
>that there are newsgroups for this yesterday, just to get another mail 
>today).
>
> Thomas
> 

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:55:42 +0200, "Thomas Entner" <aon.912710880@aon.at> wrote:
>I was just wondering if also other peoples in this group get private mails 
>from Aman Mediratta, asking for technical support with EDK, etc. For me it 
>looks like he is mass-mailing his support-questions. Also a way to get 
>support... I would call it "support-spam". (I tried to shortly explain him 
>that there are newsgroups for this yesterday, just to get another mail 
>today).
>
>Thomas 

I get these ALL the time. Often these newbies don't even know about usenet
and news groups. I direct them to this page:

    http://www.fpga-faq.org/FAQ_Posting.htm




===================
Philip Freidin
philip.freidin@fpga-faq.org
Host for WWW.FPGA-FAQ.ORG

>I was just wondering if also other peoples in this group get private mails 
>from Aman Mediratta, asking for technical support with EDK, etc. For me it 
>looks like he is mass-mailing his support-questions. Also a way to get 
>support... I would call it "support-spam". (I tried to shortly explain him 
>that there are newsgroups for this yesterday, just to get another mail 
>today).

I got 2 on Jul-29 and another on Aug-11th.  The last was 6 megabytes.

I didn't have time to be polite like Austin or Phillip.

I'm generally happy to receive email if it's related to
something I've posted.  The stuff I got from Aman looked like
he wanted help with his homework.  I have no idea why he picked me.
I don't know anything about the topic or "forum for virtex 2 pro"
that he harvested my address from.  My guess it that he
harvested my address from a "forum" that was gateway from
this newsgroup.

There was no hint in his mail that he had read anything I had posted.
(See sig below.)

I get especially pissed off when the subject says "urgent".
(It's not urgent for me.)  Doubley so when it comes from a free
mail site so I can't contact his boss/sysadmin to give him a clue.

His email said "student of Electronics and Electrical Engg. Dept
at Indian Institute Of Technology kharagpur".  Anybody got a contact
there who can sort this out?  I suspect an instructor or TA
gave bogus advice.

-- 
The suespammers.org mail server is located in California.  So are all my
other mailboxes.  Please do not send unsolicited bulk e-mail or unsolicited
commercial e-mail to my suespammers.org address or any of my other addresses.
These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's.  I hate spam.

Me too, I've had two or three in the last couple of weeks.
Ben




"Hal Murray" <hmurray@suespammers.org> wrote in message 
news:YLednWqP286nMY_eRVn-tQ@megapath.net...
> >I was just wondering if also other peoples in this group get private 
> >mails
>>from Aman Mediratta, asking for technical support with EDK, etc. For me it
>>looks like he is mass-mailing his support-questions. Also a way to get
>>support... I would call it "support-spam". (I tried to shortly explain him
>>that there are newsgroups for this yesterday, just to get another mail
>>today).
>
> I got 2 on Jul-29 and another on Aug-11th.  The last was 6 megabytes.
>
> I didn't have time to be polite like Austin or Phillip.
>
> I'm generally happy to receive email if it's related to
> something I've posted.  The stuff I got from Aman looked like
> he wanted help with his homework.  I have no idea why he picked me.
> I don't know anything about the topic or "forum for virtex 2 pro"
> that he harvested my address from.  My guess it that he
> harvested my address from a "forum" that was gateway from
> this newsgroup.
>
> There was no hint in his mail that he had read anything I had posted.
> (See sig below.)
>
> I get especially pissed off when the subject says "urgent".
> (It's not urgent for me.)  Doubley so when it comes from a free
> mail site so I can't contact his boss/sysadmin to give him a clue.
>
> His email said "student of Electronics and Electrical Engg. Dept
> at Indian Institute Of Technology kharagpur".  Anybody got a contact
> there who can sort this out?  I suspect an instructor or TA
> gave bogus advice.
>
> -- 
> The suespammers.org mail server is located in California.  So are all my
> other mailboxes.  Please do not send unsolicited bulk e-mail or 
> unsolicited
> commercial e-mail to my suespammers.org address or any of my other 
> addresses.
> These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's.  I hate spam.
>