Marcelo Toledo

startups, empreendedorismo e tecnologia

maio 2008

Computex – Taipei

Tomorrow I’ll be going to Taipei, only a day of traveling and 12 hours ahead, I’ll be in the Computex talking with our hardware suppliers and possible new suppliers. We have big plans for the next years and there is definitely the best place for buying well.

Offline searchable information

You have no internet and you need to find out what is the closest hotspot. What do you do? Imagine an offline hotspot locator, a simple application that will provide fields for searching and a grid to display the results. No matter where you are, if you need to know where is the closest hotspot, just open the application, filter a little bit and voila! If you think deeper about this, you’ll see that it can be used in many situations, so making it a rock would be a waste of time, latest couple hours I’ve been writing the initial spec…

Update from London

Opening in great style, like usual, the day before the event was the fourth Quiconnect’s dinner, where everyone from the market has chance to meet, I had the pleasure to meet and chat with great people. Day after, the event, divided in two parts, speeches in the Mobile Broadband Congress and the exposition in The Wireless Event, both being used for only one reason, meeting people, nobody really cares about the speeches much, they just want to sit somewhere, make meetings and close deals. It was very common to see people sitting all day long doing meetings and not even…

Removing the Big Kernel Lock

“As some of the latency junkies on lkml already know, commit 8e3e076 in v2.6.26-rc2 removed the preemptible BKL feature and made the Big Kernel Lock a spinlock and thus turned it into non-preemptible code again. This commit returned the BKL code to the 2.6.7 state of affairs in essence,” began Ingo Molnar. He noted that this had a very negative effect on the real time kernel efforts, adding that Linux creator Linus Torvalds indicated the only acceptable way forward was to completely remove the BKL. Ingo explained: “This task is not easy at all. 12 years after Linux has been…

EarthLink to Remove Philadelphia Wi-Fi

According to PC World: EarthLink next month will shut down its Philadelphia Wi-Fi network, the flagship of its now-dashed municipal wireless initiative, and then remove it from the city’s street lights. It’s sad to hear this, means that yet, Muni Wi-Fi, is just a dream and no one found a model that works. What I want to know is, WiMax is trying this same model, what’s gonna be different? Why is it going to work?

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