The End of x86?

http://www.fernstrategy.com/2010/10/21/the-end-of-x86/

40 Hour Work Week at Microsoft

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmeier/archive/2010/10/21/40-hour-work-week-at-microsoft.aspx

Diminished Reality

Google developing autonomous cars?

http://technologizer.com/2010/10/09/google-self-driving-cars/

10 amazing real life robots

http://mashable.com/2010/10/10/10-amazing-real-life-robots/

Distro builder

Amazing powerful and practical tool

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/narcissus/

Just built (and it worked) a complete image of Angstrom for Beagle Board, with samba, webserver, OpenCV, etc…

Just select the target platform, packages, and I’ll get the image done!

The poor’s man Beagle Board

Well, as I don’t have a DVI monitor, I wanted to boot my Beagle Board XM by default using the S-Video output.

1. Connect the serial cable and enter U-Boot prompt @ 115200,8N1
2. Type printenv

My beagle default config in the card says (defaultdisplay=dvi)

Now things are easy:

3. setenv defaultdisplay=tv
4. saveenv
5. boot (or reset)

And there it is the default output to S-Video!

Linux scales up to 48 cores

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/multicore-0930.html

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/linux:osdi10.pdf