And the anti-whaling people say that all this whaling by japanese and koreans isn't really for the purported "scientific research". But look! These guys found a new species!
Oh, actually, now that I think about it, I think part of the wifi firware on the gumstix is closed-source. But the driver's open. Stupid wifi vendors are a real PITA.
The gumstix is completely open source (though some 3rd party companies sell closed-source software for it for custom applications). Every line of code that ships on the gumstix, and every line of code for every utility used to build gumstix's factory software are completely open, and published. Gumstix even gives users write permission to its source code repository. Almost all of the hardware is fully open-source (all the daughtercards are -- the motherboard's schematic and layouts are closed, but all the interfaces are heavily documented, and gumstix the company is very open about talking about the stuff on the board to assist with any compatibility issues).
Disclaimer: I used to work at gumstix, and I'm a stock holder.
Key phrase: "to the best of my ability". The entire oath is predicated on the president's ability, which is "the capacity to do something". If the President's brain decides to violate the Constitution for personal reasons, then it's not like he has the ability to not do something his brain is making him do... Therefore, no oath violation as long as he *intended* to fail to preserve and protect the Constitution.
NAT is the solution to the address space problem. Get used to it, because ipv6 has spent the last five years failing to become a solution. When we finally run out of ipv4 addresses, we aren't going to switch to ipv6, we're going to switch to using NAT at the ISPs. You won't get an internet-routeable address for anything other than a server, after that happens - regular DSL lines will be allocated an address from one of the private ranges and NATted onto a smaller pool of routeable addresses as they leave the ISPs network.
This is already what happens with cellular data services. When your EDGE connection comes up, you find your phone has a 10.x.y.z IP address.
The gumstix is smaller. At 80x20x6mm the gumstix is 9600 cubic mm. The picotux at 35x19x19mm is 12635 cubic mm, or more than 30% larger than a gumstix. It's also not a linux device, but rather a uclinux device, which is not the same thing.
The bigger liability, IMO, is for the opposite failure in the Goodmail system -- that is when "bad" mail slips through. No email filter can deliver 100% of the good mail and 0% of the bad mail. What happens when a phishing scam lands in someone's inbox with a Goodmail "certified OK" stamp on it, and the user trusts the email enough to hand over their identity?
links works great on the device. I took it out of the "default" software image though to keep size down and leave more free space. Easy to add it back though.
We're working on a TV-out framebuffer card. Right now it's sort of working, but the screen's all purple (I think I'm mapping the Y,Cr,Cb wrong or something). Anyway, I can see a pretty purple penguin when I boot, showing up on my TV screen... The same video chip we're using can output PAL or NTSC (software setting), and can do S-video or composite (hardware connector obviously different). The video card is kind of back-burner behind some other higher-priority stuff though, but it is there "in the lab".
Actually, I can think of ways that even before the modified human became sexually mature, it could still have a potential impact on the broad population. Think for example of a virus which might evolve inside the modified host, then migrate to other people.
Sexual reproduction is not the only way to transmit DNA from one human to another.
The device contains a Gumstix, so although the pictures of the screen appear to have Windows-like icons on them, I'm guessing those are actually just static images dumped from some other device, and just being displayed under linux on this screen. While working on the screen and hardware integration, I don't think Philips will have also had time to port WinCE to the gumstix.
The screenshots appear to have windows icons on them, but the non-screen part of the device apparently has a Gumstix computer in it. Which means that this device is likely running Linux, and just displaying screen dumps from some other device, rather than actually running WinCE.
I think they haven't yet got a Robostix, which we designed to be a replacement for the Brainstem at a much lower price, with a better feature set, and better gumstix integration. Still not much there on the software side for Robostix, but all your normal AVR tools should work great, and control of the robostix from userspace on the gumstix is just around the corner.
If the company in question was McAfee, then technically it's kinda-true. McAfee owns the copyright to large chunks of SpamAssassin, including all the original code by Justin Mason. Not really the best way of phrasing it, but then I have no idea what the sales guy actually said.
If it's any other company, it's BS.
Shouldn't be shaky -- if you get one of the breakout boards you can just solder the LCD wires right to the correct lines, then use the pxa framebuffer driver which is in the kernel. A number of people have done this, and seem to have had success with everything from eInk screens to boring-old color TFT screens. All the configuration that's needed on the software side is to plug a couple parameters into the kernel boot args.
I haven't looked at it, but from memory, the linux kernel only allows either regular USB, or "gadget" USB, but not both -- so while the hardware can switch, I'm not sure that Linux can... But that's not definitive, just a vague memory of the menuconfig screen.
Bluetooth was just really easy to do -- basically just glue an infineon bluetooth module onto the PXA bluetooth UART. It's a serial protocol from the PXA to the bluetooth module, so it's I think (from memory) only 4 traces, and we can easily fit it all on the gumstix board itself instead of on a daughterboard. Ethernet, even 16-bit ethernet, is trickier -- you need a whole chipset plus a bunch more traces, plus you have to carry a bunch of bus lines from the PXA to a daughtercard, due to the space constraints we have on the 'stix mainboard. But in any case, watch the gumstix website in the coming weeks if you're interested in ethernet gumstix.
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And the anti-whaling people say that all this whaling by japanese and koreans isn't really for the purported "scientific research". But look! These guys found a new species!
Oh, actually, now that I think about it, I think part of the wifi firware on the gumstix is closed-source. But the driver's open. Stupid wifi vendors are a real PITA.
The gumstix is completely open source (though some 3rd party companies sell closed-source software for it for custom applications). Every line of code that ships on the gumstix, and every line of code for every utility used to build gumstix's factory software are completely open, and published. Gumstix even gives users write permission to its source code repository. Almost all of the hardware is fully open-source (all the daughtercards are -- the motherboard's schematic and layouts are closed, but all the interfaces are heavily documented, and gumstix the company is very open about talking about the stuff on the board to assist with any compatibility issues).
Disclaimer: I used to work at gumstix, and I'm a stock holder.
Key phrase: "to the best of my ability". The entire oath is predicated on the president's ability, which is "the capacity to do something". If the President's brain decides to violate the Constitution for personal reasons, then it's not like he has the ability to not do something his brain is making him do... Therefore, no oath violation as long as he *intended* to fail to preserve and protect the Constitution.
The gumstix is smaller. At 80x20x6mm the gumstix is 9600 cubic mm. The picotux at 35x19x19mm is 12635 cubic mm, or more than 30% larger than a gumstix. It's also not a linux device, but rather a uclinux device, which is not the same thing.
The bigger liability, IMO, is for the opposite failure in the Goodmail system -- that is when "bad" mail slips through. No email filter can deliver 100% of the good mail and 0% of the bad mail. What happens when a phishing scam lands in someone's inbox with a Goodmail "certified OK" stamp on it, and the user trusts the email enough to hand over their identity?
Obviously, his list of exploits to be published was stored in an Oracle DB, which got hacked.
...you mean like the first image under "happenings" here?
links works great on the device. I took it out of the "default" software image though to keep size down and leave more free space. Easy to add it back though.
We're working on a TV-out framebuffer card. Right now it's sort of working, but the screen's all purple (I think I'm mapping the Y,Cr,Cb wrong or something). Anyway, I can see a pretty purple penguin when I boot, showing up on my TV screen... The same video chip we're using can output PAL or NTSC (software setting), and can do S-video or composite (hardware connector obviously different). The video card is kind of back-burner behind some other higher-priority stuff though, but it is there "in the lab".
Actually, I can think of ways that even before the modified human became sexually mature, it could still have a potential impact on the broad population. Think for example of a virus which might evolve inside the modified host, then migrate to other people.
Sexual reproduction is not the only way to transmit DNA from one human to another.
I think my math works differently from yours. 1e9 * 100 * 1/6 * 1/2 = $83bln, not $200mln. How do you get to $200mln?
Well that'll teach me to "save time" by not previewing.
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craig@master ~ $ curl -s -I http://www.minix.org/|head -n 3
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:32:32 GMT
Server: Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.47 (Mandrake Linux/4mdk) mod_perl/1.99_09 Perl/v5.8.0 mod_ssl/2.0.47 OpenSSL/0.9.7b PHP/4.3.2
Interesting.
craig@master ~ $ curl -s -I http://www.minix3.org/|head -n 3
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:33:29 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) PHP/4.4.0 mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6c
Pah!
craig@master ~ $ sudo nmap -P0 -v -v -v -n -TPolite -O www.minix3.org
[wait]
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X|2.6.X
OS details: Linux 2.4.18 - 2.6.11
I guess nobody's ported apache to minix yet...
craig@master ~ $ curl -s -I http://www.minix.org/|head -n 3 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:32:32 GMT Server: Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.47 (Mandrake Linux/4mdk) mod_perl/1.99_09 Perl/v5.8.0 mod_ssl/2.0.47 OpenSSL/0.9.7b PHP/4.3.2 Interesting. craig@master ~ $ curl -s -I http://www.minix3.org/|head -n 3 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:33:29 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) PHP/4.4.0 mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6c Pah! craig@master ~ $ sudo nmap -P0 -v -v -v -n -TPolite -O www.minix3.org [wait] ...
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X|2.6.X
OS details: Linux 2.4.18 - 2.6.11 ...
I guess nobody's ported apache to minix yet...
The device contains a Gumstix, so although the pictures of the screen appear to have Windows-like icons on them, I'm guessing those are actually just static images dumped from some other device, and just being displayed under linux on this screen. While working on the screen and hardware integration, I don't think Philips will have also had time to port WinCE to the gumstix.
The screenshots appear to have windows icons on them, but the non-screen part of the device apparently has a Gumstix computer in it. Which means that this device is likely running Linux, and just displaying screen dumps from some other device, rather than actually running WinCE.
You can do USB host today, with a CF adapter and a USB Host CF card (drivers for the CF1U from Ratoc are in the 2.6.12 kernel).
I think they haven't yet got a Robostix, which we designed to be a replacement for the Brainstem at a much lower price, with a better feature set, and better gumstix integration. Still not much there on the software side for Robostix, but all your normal AVR tools should work great, and control of the robostix from userspace on the gumstix is just around the corner.
If the company in question was McAfee, then technically it's kinda-true. McAfee owns the copyright to large chunks of SpamAssassin, including all the original code by Justin Mason. Not really the best way of phrasing it, but then I have no idea what the sales guy actually said. If it's any other company, it's BS.
Dude, we only have one tech, and I'm not schizophrenic.
Shouldn't be shaky -- if you get one of the breakout boards you can just solder the LCD wires right to the correct lines, then use the pxa framebuffer driver which is in the kernel. A number of people have done this, and seem to have had success with everything from eInk screens to boring-old color TFT screens. All the configuration that's needed on the software side is to plug a couple parameters into the kernel boot args.
I haven't looked at it, but from memory, the linux kernel only allows either regular USB, or "gadget" USB, but not both -- so while the hardware can switch, I'm not sure that Linux can... But that's not definitive, just a vague memory of the menuconfig screen.
Bluetooth was just really easy to do -- basically just glue an infineon bluetooth module onto the PXA bluetooth UART. It's a serial protocol from the PXA to the bluetooth module, so it's I think (from memory) only 4 traces, and we can easily fit it all on the gumstix board itself instead of on a daughterboard. Ethernet, even 16-bit ethernet, is trickier -- you need a whole chipset plus a bunch more traces, plus you have to carry a bunch of bus lines from the PXA to a daughtercard, due to the space constraints we have on the 'stix mainboard. But in any case, watch the gumstix website in the coming weeks if you're interested in ethernet gumstix.
Yup, USB host mode coming soon to a gumstix near you. I just need to get back from my european vacation and make sure the software's all working...