I’ve never seen open source hardware target the mainstream until the OpenMoko team partnered with FIC to release the Neo 1973. Before that, it was just about all hobbyist electronics kits or Verilog code for FPGAs. Oh, and 3d printers, which are awesome. Yesterday I found out about the 本 (běn) NanoNote, an open palmtop.
photo credit: mrbill CBC just had two pieces on the throttling fiasco that’s still going on. One was an interview with Bell’s Mirko Bibic by Spark, the other was from The Current.
University of Toronto is hosting its first video gaming research symposium. It tackles everything video gaming related, from the legal stance on taxation of virtual property to using multicore systems to their full potential in 3D games. I’m also interested in the pub/sub talk. The agenda is packed. I count fourteen talks. I’m going, and [...]
Another Canadian net neutrality site has opened up. This one is whatisnetneutrality.ca. As its name says, it gives a definition of net neutrality and also examples of where it’s being flouted. They have a blog and a list of other resources. The examples page I find most valuable even if I don’t agree with all [...]
AdBlock Plus is a necessity for me to browse at home these days. For the past few years I’ve felt the net is oversaturated with ads, but what finally pushed me over the edge was the relatively recent trend of full screen flash adverts. I’m not talking about the splash screen ads that you have [...]
Last week I cleaned up my apartment, this week I cleaned out my PC. That meant clearing out the cruft from the Edgy to Feisty upgrade, tidying up my directories and fixing my 3d acceleration. The deteriorating state of my machine was depressing. My 3d acceleration just broke after the upgrade. I coped, I don’t [...]
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