Tag Archives: embedded

Looking for a simple GPS receiver

May 7, 2007 – 14:22

Dear Lazyweb,
I am looking for a simple GPS receiver for my laptop. Ideally, it would disappear into one of the PCMCIA or SD slots, but I am having a tough time finding something like this. Alternatively, if Bluetooth is the only sensible answer, tell me I’m dreaming, and perhaps suggest one that will work well [...]

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Ubuntu goes mobile too!

May 6, 2007 – 23:19

Right before we launched the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative, Intel went public with their sexy Mobile Internet Device prototypes, running Red Flag and Ubuntu. They’re Linux based, and use Nokia’s Hildon interface architecture, developed for the N770 and N800 web tablets… So it’s fantastic to see Canonical and Ubuntu come to the table with [...]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged desktop, FLOSS, GNOME, Ubuntu | Comments (4)

Major GNOME announcement next Thursday

April 16, 2007 – 08:31

If you were wondering what this obtuse, xkcd-inspired stream of numbers meant…

Now I can reveal a little more, as per www.gnome.org…

If you love GNOME, and you’re near Santa Clara next Thursday, come and see us!

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Spooks dig GConf

April 11, 2007 – 18:51

At the recent SE Linux Symposium, James Carter of the NSA spoke about using GConf as a user space object manager. The paper covers the application of Flask principles (and SE Linux in particular) to user configuration, and is well worth reading, even if you’re not astronautically familiar with SE Linux itself. Definitely recommended for [...]

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A Stream of Numbers

April 3, 2007 – 16:45
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Missing you at BOSSA

March 13, 2007 – 17:16

Unfortunately I’m not in Brazil for BOSSA this week due to illness — not even healthy enough to argue with my doctor about it. Missing Brazil again! Gah. I wouldn’t normally announce my non-presence at a conference here, but it looks like I’m still on the agenda, and a few people have pinged [...]

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QoTD: Emmanuele Bassi

March 9, 2007 – 12:20

“So, waiting for Project Ridley to come to the rescue is not going to cut it anymore: if you are proposing to move some functionality from a library to GLib or GTK+ be prepared to work on the whole code and not only on your pet feature.” — Emmanuele Bassi, Of Angels and Angles on [...]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in Quote of the Day | Also tagged desktop, GNOME | Comments (0)

Im in ur Javur, releasin ur codes

November 14, 2006 – 05:14

Java is Free. Crack now. Analysis later.

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Clutting Edge

June 23, 2006 – 10:22

OpenedHand have dropped another love bomb on the GTK+/GNOME embedded scene — Clutter, a simple scenegraph/canvas API for doing pimped-out, full screen, kiosk/television style user interfaces with GTK+, GStreamer and GL. Take a look at the examples included in the tarball, and their snazzy Opt presentation tool. It’s early days, but Clutter is already looking [...]

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