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