I am in the process of starting up a non-profit charitable organization that would require a lot of hacking-type computer work. The scope of the organization will be national, and it aims to bring a major increase to the amount that the commercial and professional worlds interact with other charitable organizations to give back to society. In my opinion, it has the potential to make a meaingful and lasting difference in the country. The means of operation is based mainly on computer technology. Since I am in the start up phase (buried in paperwork), me and my few colleagues have not had much time to work on the technical details of the organization. We welcome any help we can get from the geek communtiy. If anyone is interested in more information, e-mail me at robbyland@hotmail.com. Since I'm still in the paper filing phase I don't want to write to much more information about the organization, but I would be happy to discuss more on a personal basis. The whole thing should kick some major ass!
This is just hearsay and unconfirmed(then again, not much on the web isn't), but I have a buddy that works for AMD who told me a while back Intel dug Dell out of the hole when they where doing really bad financially and that there is an 'unofficial agreement' that Dell will never sell anything without an intel inside. It's actually too bad, because I really like Dell machines.
It's funny this announcement comes just four days after they block the Odigo Messenger from communicating with users of its instant messaging service. News story can be found at:
I think this is great news. I am currently working on a flight control and navigation computer for unmanned air vehicles and I have been looking at using a POSIX based Real Time OS, but boot time for that application is very critical (longer than one second for reboot and you now have $1M mantel piece). Anyway, having the ability to easily streamline the BIOS could help push Linux into the aerospace flight controls industry.
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I am in the process of starting up a non-profit charitable organization that would require a lot of hacking-type computer work. The scope of the organization will be national, and it aims to bring a major increase to the amount that the commercial and professional worlds interact with other charitable organizations to give back to society. In my opinion, it has the potential to make a meaingful and lasting difference in the country. The means of operation is based mainly on computer technology. Since I am in the start up phase (buried in paperwork), me and my few colleagues have not had much time to work on the technical details of the organization. We welcome any help we can get from the geek communtiy. If anyone is interested in more information, e-mail me at robbyland@hotmail.com. Since I'm still in the paper filing phase I don't want to write to much more information about the organization, but I would be happy to discuss more on a personal basis. The whole thing should kick some major ass!
This is just hearsay and unconfirmed(then again, not much on the web isn't), but I have a buddy that works for AMD who told me a while back Intel dug Dell out of the hole when they where doing really bad financially and that there is an 'unofficial agreement' that Dell will never sell anything without an intel inside. It's actually too bad, because I really like Dell machines.
It's funny this announcement comes just four days after they block the Odigo Messenger from communicating with users of its instant messaging service. News story can be found at:
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,416
I think this is great news. I am currently working on a flight control and navigation computer for unmanned air vehicles and I have been looking at using a POSIX based Real Time OS, but boot time for that application is very critical (longer than one second for reboot and you now have $1M mantel piece). Anyway, having the ability to easily streamline the BIOS could help push Linux into the aerospace flight controls industry.