X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=Blog%2F2008%2FOctober;h=65316253c4c94a638032770330cab996f54c1c10;hp=f7a0f721e4987136a468b08c43bcc4f4e00c4282;hb=70a60cf55211d17e0f202a146e1690e75536d414;hpb=2133edfa8eeb564dce14d9ca094fcfdf705b180e diff --git a/Blog/2008/October b/Blog/2008/October index f7a0f72..6531625 100644 --- a/Blog/2008/October +++ b/Blog/2008/October @@ -1,4 +1,42 @@ -=== Mon, 27th October - ESC === +=== Fri, 31st October - Critical Mass === + +{{CriticalMass.jpg | The Boston Critical Mass (stock photo)}} + +A few friends from 1CC invited me to this subversive event called the +[[http://bostoncriticalmass.org/|Critical Mass]]. I used the complimentary Acetarium bicycle. + +While our group of 200+ bikes was riding on a roadway, we went into a road block. They knocked +down a couple of bikers and tried to stop others. I also ran into a young cop who had the bad +idea of walking to the middle of the road. + +It was a lot of fun :-) + +=== Tue, 28th October - Daneel and Giskard == + +{{Daneel.jpg|Daneel, my faithful Apple iBook}} + +My old PowerPC iBook served me well for over 5 years, accompanied me around the +world twice or so, carrying three Linux distros on the same hard drive. Not to +mention all the stickers, which conferred it great hacker value. One month ago, +the integrated ATI GPU broke beyond any possibility of repair. + +Such a great loss had to be compensated with something at least half as cool. +I chose a lightweight Lenovo Thinkpad X200s, with a LED backlit 12" display, a +low-voltage U9300 processor and **no** stupid CD reader or writer. + +Today my package was delivered home and I installed Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid, just +one day before the official release. + +{{http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/2932872936_c7a3b17a95.jpg | Giskard, my new Lenovo Thinkpad X200s}} + +=== Mon, 27th October - Embedded Systems Conference Boston === + +{{http://beagleboard.org/static/images/beagle-home-promo-left-2008-07-01.jpg | the awesome Beagle Board}} + +Today I gave a talk about porting Sugar to the [[http://www.digikey.com/beagleboard|Beagle Board]], +a nice development system for Texas Instrument's OMAP3530 processor. + +Slides here: [[http://www.codewiz.org/pub/olpc/slides/SugarBeagle.odp]] Details of the talk here: [[https://www.cmpevents.com/ESCe08/a.asp?option=G&V=3&id=625476]]