2008

Offline searchable information

25/05/2008

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

24/05/2008

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

16/05/2008

“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

16/05/2008

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?

Embedded Linux Conference 2008

14/05/2008

Rafael Ugolini sent me these awesome links about Embedded Linux Conference 2008, all the videos and reports (from all years): Videos like… Keynote: The Relationship Between kernel.org Development and the Use of Linux for Embedded Applications, by Andrew Morton (Google) UME – Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded, by David Mandala (Canonical) Back-tracing in MIPS-based Linux Systems, by Jong-Sung Kim (LG Electronics) Using a JTAG for Linux Driver Debugging, by Mike Anderson (PTR Group) … Go check: Videos: http://free-electrons.com/community/videos/conferences/ Reports: http://free-electrons.com/articles/conferences/elc2008-report/

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