Author Archives: ward
DRM video contest winners
Freeculture.org has announced the winners of the DRM video contest. These videos are really fantastic – the only thing that’s a shame is that the proprietary Flash plugin is necessary to view (most of) them. The GNASH project is not … Continue reading
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scanner
People are always talking about ‘the year of GNU/Linux on the desktop’. And they’re always wondering which year that will be. In the future. I think that future is here already. I purchased a scanner, and it arrived today – … Continue reading
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solar power
Google is installing 1.6 megawatts of solar panels at their Mountain View campus. Awesome.
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Amazon’s S3 and EC2 services
Amazon Web Services is offering two relatively new services: ubiquitous storage via S3 and ‘elastic’ computing via EC2. The Cardbox folks have an in-depth analysis of S3 online, and Smugmug uses an S3 backend.This is very interesting. If it wasn’t … Continue reading
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LinuxBIOS symposium 2006
The LinuxBIOS symposium 2006 in Hamburg was pretty amazing. Very, very interesting – and it was great to finally meet some of the folks from the mailing list. There are photos and slides from the talks at the LinuxBIOS wiki. … Continue reading
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the belgian google lawsuit
I must admit that I’m ashamed – my countrymen are being ridiculous. The lawsuit against Google does not make any sense. The Google blog has a nice post outlining the basics of the case. Basically – if those newspapers don’t … Continue reading
why VAlinux went out of the hardware business
At work, someone donated an old VAlinux server 1000 a while back. It has all sorts of weirdness about it: no vga and ps/2 ports onboard, but a breakout box that provides them. The breakout box connects to the server … Continue reading
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gumstix
I’ve been meaning to play with some of these gumstix for a long time. Recently they released the Netstix 200xm-cf that puts ethernet, a CF socket, a 200MHz Xscale CPU, 64MB of RAM and 16MB of flash in a tiny … Continue reading
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Simply RISC
I wrote a while back about Sun’s decision to GPL the design for its Niagara T1 chip. As Larry Lessig reports, there is now a company in Europe that is shipping a modified design targeted at embedded systems. Check out … Continue reading
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another LinuxBIOS build tutorial
We acquired a Tyan Transport GX28 with a Tyan s2882 board at work (rather by accident, in fact). Turns out my Tyan S2881 Build Tutorial worked pretty much out of the box for the S2882, so I’ve put up a … Continue reading
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