Explore Posterous

Debian upgrade still a bit of a nerdish headache

I upgraded Debian on an old desktop computer from oldstable (etch/Debian 4.0) to stable (lenny/Debian 5.0). Upgrading is still a bit of a headache. It runs ok with "aptitude dist-upgrade". It takes quite a while, - while you are watching "Running udpmap-sys. This may take some time": Yes, it indeed does! Then comes the reboot. It now sometimes can't mount and stops in the middle of the booting. I wonder if the old computer suffers from SCSI hardware problems or if it is a new kernel issue. Then comes X. First it didn't start. After the introduction of magic in /etc/X11/xorg.conf X would come, but now my GL capabilities have been lost somewhere between nvidia binary, nvidia legacy binary and nvidia standard driver. I could probably spend some time looking at this issue, but I would like to use my time better than for these nerdish problems. Hmmm...

Loading mentions Retweet

Comment (0) »

Medion The Touch X9613 Hands-On

Loading mentions Retweet

Comment (0) »

NVIDIA confirms Tegra processor within Zune HD, details it real good | engadget

via engadget.com

"It's no big secret that NVIDIA's potent Tegra chip will be powering Microsoft's forthcoming Zune HD, but up until now, the former company had been rather quiet about its involvement in the project. Just a few days after the OLED-equipped portable media player went up for pre-order around the web, NVIDIA has stepped in to affirm that its own Tegra processor will be "providing the multimedia muscle in Zune HD." ... details at link

Loading mentions Retweet

Comment (0) »

Apple and its two girlfriends

Apple to Nvidia: Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out

Loading mentions Retweet

Comment (3) »

Google Android Steals The Show At Computex Taiwan

The Computex Taipei 2009 electronics show ended Saturday after a week-long display of new gadgets, including netbooks, ultra thin laptops made with new Intel chips and several surprises surrounding Google's Android mobile phone operating system.

Read more: 

http://globalitnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-android-steals-show-at-computex.html

Tags:

Acer, android netbook, Asustek, BenQ, computer chips, Computex Taipei 2009, Google, Google Android, Intel, intel atom, Kinpo, linux, MIPS chips, netbooks, nettops, Nvidia, smartphones, Taipei, TAITRA, 

Loading mentions Retweet

Comment (0) »

Commercializing Early Exposure

"A programmable signal and image processor that . . . achieves a peak performance of 20GFLOPS (single-precision floating point) and 40GOPS (16-bit fixed point) and sustains over 12GFLOPS and 20GOPS on key signal processing benchmarks."

     

Click here to download:

Commercializing_Early_Exposure.zip (805 KB)

Which also got me thinking . . . Why my dad never pointed me toward a website that compiled information on all careers out there together, "long-tail" and all, into one place? That let people load up whatever they feel like -- Scribd docs, SlideShare decks, YouTube vids, anything? That gave kids crazy early exposure to EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE? (Which, by the by, happens to be Malcolm Gladwell's formula for brilliance. No need to read Outliers now!) That let the kids in on the Days-In-The-Lives-Of, and connects mentees with mentors and the reverse? And made a ton of money off those interactions and made the future Lame-o A and Lame-o B feel real bad about missing out, and that gave LinkedIn a run for its money? I'm just saying.

Loading mentions Retweet

Comment (0) »