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Rants and Raves.

After buying a variety of Wifi dongles (to use separately on a Pi, BeagleBoard and APC at the same time), a collection of USB extenders, three different keyboards, an extra powered USB hub and two new Raspberry Pi’s (which showed up unexpectedly yesterday even though Element14 made me think they […]

USB magic

 in General (updated 4481 days ago)
Tonight I pushed the build for PiBox, my version of the BeagleBox build for the Raspberry Pi.  The build isn’t complete, but it does generate a working cross toolchain, Linux kernel and root file system.  It utilizes binary firmware for the GPU that is used to boot the board (instead […]

PiBox: the buld system for Raspberry Pi

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After removing DRM from being compiled into my 3.2.23 kernel, I had my first initial success with running SGX on my BeagleBoard C4 based on my BeagleBox build.  After an initial boot where I stopped my current Xorg session, I ran omap_demo to setup the environment.  Not sure what this […]

BeagleBox: initial success with SGX

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AFter a very long delay, I’ve finally rebooted BeagleBox to the point of having wireless networking enabled.  I’m using a TP-Link usb-attached wireless adapter via the carl9170 driver with the 3.2.22 kernel.  It works, but the driver seems to generate a lot of messages.  I’m not sure if they’re errors […]

BeagleBox: networking added and X.org working again

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The 2nd edition of my last book on GIMP, the Artist’s Guide to GIMP, has arrived at No Starch Press and is about to head out to retailers.  They’re offering a big discount on orders through July 3rd.  You can get info and a code from the following URL:http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7f22e9d06dac9fadee60e1e45&id=21a2c0ade2&e= Hope […]

Discount on Artist’s Guide to GIMP

 in General (updated 4691 days ago)
Today I deactivated my account on Facebook. I found it essentially useless except to keep up with my daughter at college, but truthfully I'd rather Skype her than browse her photos. I'm not social enough to care to see photos of everyone's vacation or most recent beer-fest. And honestly – […]

B’Bye Facebook.

 in General (updated 4731 days ago)
Found this article today. Pretty interesting, maybe if only because I agree with the guy about X still being very viable in todays embedded market. http://www.wiredvanity.com/articles/34/on-the-x-windowing-system-and-why-google-isn-t-using-it-for-chrome-os

Why ChromeOS isn’t using X

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I’m playing with F16 at work, prep’ing for the big migration from F14.  I’ve already installed a laptop.  Now I’m doing a dual-core server. The first thing I noticed that is different from my usual installation process is that the asknetwork boot option to anaconda doesn’t work.  The boot process […]

F16 Upgrade Notes

 in General (updated 4891 days ago)