Software

Jaiku

17/07/2008

“Jaiku is now a part of Google. For more details about Jaiku and Google, see the Q&A about the acquisition. Jaiku’s main goal is to bring people closer together by enabling them to share their activity streams. An activity stream is a log of everyday things as they happen: your status messages, recommendations, events you’re attending, photos you’ve taken – anything you post directly to Jaiku or add using Web feeds. We offer a way to connect with the people you care about by sharing your activities with them on the Web, IM, and SMS – as well as through…

No more OS monopoly

30/06/2008

I remember the first time I wanted to install Linux, 15 years ago, I had a Compaq laptop where Linux would never work, but I didn’t know that, so I tried over and over again, I knew so much the slackware installer steps that I could do it without looking at the screen. One day I got tired and changed the approach, sold my laptop and built my desktop computer with the pieces I knew would work, it was the fastest computer I ever saw with Linux working like a charm. After this day, I never stopped using Linux. And that’s…

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…

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…

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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