Linus Torvalds’s Lessons on Software Development Management

http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons-on-Software-Development-Management/ba-p/440

8 Star Trek Gadgets That Are No Longer Fiction

1. The Flip Phone
2. The iPad
3. Bluetooth Headsets
4. Tricorders
5. The Floppy Disk and USB Drives
6. Voice Activation
7. GPS
8. Diagnostic Bed

Source: http://mashable.com/2011/09/08/star-trek-gadgets/

Beagleboard has visited space!

Originally posted in the BeagleBoard mailing list by Tim Zaman:

Date: Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:34 AM
Subject: [beagleboard] Beagleboard has visited space!

I’m happy to announce that the Beagleboard has been in the
stratosphere, above 99.9% of our atmosphere, at a whopping 36km up in space, and it still worked great. It was sending back live images to our university. The preliminary mission control page with the live images was here:
http://www.timzaman.nl/?page_id=1332〈=en

And there’s more info and stuff to come in the next couple of days

This will be a HUGE success – you can bet

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/why-a-25-pc-because-its-the-price-of-a-textbook-2011091/

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-25-pc-runs-quake-iii-20110829/

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/25-pc-alpha-board-successfully-runs-linux-20110824/