Unix history

Great article and video on Unix History

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/should-we-thank-for-feds-for-the-success-of-unix.ars

Reinstalling Linux?

This might be useful..

dpkg –list

aptitude search ‘~i’

dpkg –get-selections > selections.txt

dpkg –set-selections < selections.txt
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

PIC32 under Linux

http://www.designspark.com/content/microchips-new-mplab-x-and-pic32-starter-kit-running-ubuntu

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/mplab/X_Beta/installer.html

Tested in Ubuntu 10.04LTS. Worked out-of the box

IDE is nice, compiler works fine, target programming and control is easily done also.

Dept. of Defense secure Linux distribution

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/u-s-dept-of-defense-offers-up-tiny-secure-linux-distribution-20110722/

All About Accelerometers

http://hackaday.com/2011/07/24/all-about-accelerometers/

PCs and TV movies

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/does_not_compute_10_pc_myths_movies_and_television

Ethernet history

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/07/ethernet-how-does-it-work.ars

The kinect before kinect

http://hackaday.com/2011/07/14/did-microsoft-steal-the-kinect/

Build your own operating system

http://himmele.blogspot.com/2011/07/build-your-own-operating-system.html

OMAP5

What’s next? The holodeck? 🙂

http://newscenter.ti.com/Blogs/newsroom/archive/2011/02/07/not-just-a-faster-horse-ti-s-omap-5-platform-transforms-the-concept-of-mobile-615064.aspx