October 2011
3 posts
First Mission Peak summit & descent - Hiking trip... →
September 2011
3 posts
it's the end of the web (and your privacy) as we... →
sane Gmail filters for high-volume mailing lists
i’m a Linux kernel dev and i subscribe to mailing lists that get a lot of mail and i use Google Apps (Gmail) as my back-end mail service.
unlike most UNIX wizards with their GNU beards and ancient, curmudgeonly ways i actually like using the web interface of Gmail… but i did have one very big problem using filters and labels for my many FLOSS mailing lists.
i cannot possibly afford...
April 2011
1 post
“Not in Axe Cop. Axe Cop is real life. You get caught by the bad guys, they eat...”
– lolololol @ Axe Cop
March 2011
2 posts
Fact: Edward J. Naughton looks like an idiot →
“It’s like when your ISP charges you more to use a desktop than a notebook...”
– Ars commenter macemoneta on AT&T’s tethering crackdown
February 2011
1 post
“The demo we have features a range of apps, including my favourite – a game about...”
– from the Official Qt blog. A game about platform jumping. Hahahaha. How could they have known?
October 2010
2 posts
codesourcery and ia32-libs
Today I spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out which shared libraries I needed to get CodeSourcery’s ARM toolchain running after setting up a new development machine with a fresh install of Ubuntu.
Usually you are missing some shared libs if you see the following error after executing some application,
mturquette@quantum:~$ arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc
-bash:...
big tex is ronald reagan
it’s true.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
I now have a new life goal of becoming so powerful and famous that an artist creates a giant robot in my likeness.
June 2010
2 posts
MeeGo Handset Day1 Developer Preview →
“And, when the periodic wakeups are faster than the refresh time of powertop, no,...”
– Ted T’so arguing for Google’s Suspend Block API.
I must start using “crapplication” more often.
May 2010
1 post
“Valve has also confirmed that it will make Steam available to Linux users in the...”
– Rock. On. (via rossburton)
April 2010
1 post
Review of Aoyue 2900 soldering station
Diane gave me an Aoyue 2900 soldering station for Christmas in 2009. I’ve had a few opportunities to use it for various tasks ranging from fixing a servo with a loose connection in our cat’s favorite toy to desoldering voltage measurement leads from capacitors on a system-on-module. This is my first soldering station for private use and I’ll cut through the thick-as-lead...
March 2010
1 post
February 2010
2 posts
“GigsVT:
Something based on lines of code like COCOMO is probably not a good...”
– /.
“One common way to address these inefficiencies is to rewrite the more complex...”
– Haiping Zhao, proving my theory that web startups are not full of rock star programmers.
November 2009
2 posts
DRI2 for Radeon R600/700 chipsets on Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 9.10 was released last week with many new features including an upgrade to a 2.6.31 kernel. Sadly native support for KMS on Radeon R600 and R700 chipsets is missing. Fedora wins again. In this article I will show you how I got DRI2 support working for my Radeon HD 4350 on Karmic Koala. DRI2 is loosely defined on the DRI wiki as,
…a framework for allowing direct access to...
October 2009
2 posts
“That’s it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it’ll be friends with me?”
– Final thoughts of the NASA LCROSS probe before “reaching” the Moon. (via rossburton)
good enough tech and smartphones
I was reading Wired’s article on “good enough tech”, specifically regarding the popular Flip video recorder, and I couldn’t help but think, “we’re going to gobble them up”.
The “we’re” in that sentence sort of kind of being Texas Instruments, Inc. at first (my employer), but eventually the idea expanded to all applications processors and...
September 2009
4 posts
pulse of the audience at LPC
Announcer: I'm so very pleased to welcome Ted T'so to the stage to introduce our keynote speaker tonight, Mark Shuttleworth.
Me (to Chris): Ted T'so is a file system guru with roots in Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4 development.
Chris Pearson: ... and not a murderer.
a shameless display of my digital wit
< mturquette> robclark: hi2u
< mturquette> are you back from finland?
< robclark> mturquette: barely
< mturquette> it seems a binary thing to me.
< robclark> you'd think that, wouldn't you
< mturquette> i'll take that as a 1
new tumblr theme
I’ve updated my theme from the old ‘n’ crusty grey thingy that used to be here. I’m calling my new theme “spanr”. I originally based it off of Josh Jenkins ProWhite 2.0 theme. I read here that ProWhite 2.0 was itself based off of Hunson Nguyen’s Black and Blue Eyes theme.
There was no license available for either theme so I contacted the original...
furthering refining find(1)
Last month I wrote about using cscope for Linux kernel development. The find(1) snippet that I gave was not very precise, assuming one is only interested in a specific machine such as OMAP3.
This was pointed out to me by a coworker so here is a more refined set of search queries without all of the -prune fuss, specifically targeting OMAP3:
find -L ./arch/arm/mach-omap2/ ./arch/arm/plat-omap/...
August 2009
59 posts
OMAP gets some upstream lovin'. →
GSoC 2009 - Building Maemo from OpenEmbedded →
Kirtika took on a really difficult project for her summer of code and made wonderful progress. In short she wrote a ton of recipes to build as much of Nokia’s Maemo distro as possible from OpenEmbedded. A really neat project and I expect it to just get better and attract more developers in time.
use cscope to navigate your code. no srsly, use...
I went off the deep end earlier this year and decided I must have a full GUI IDE for writing code. No one can explain this phenomena, seeing how througout all of 2007 and 2008 I used ratpoison exclusively as my window manager.
With an increased need to develop and test GNOME components I did eventually switch to a full GNOME desktop environment on my work PC and with that came a sort of freakish...
Zoom2 support in Poky
I’m currently in the process of pushing Zoom2 support to upstream Poky. I feel like there is a lot of unfocused energy that wants this to happen at TI, but no one is set on doing it. Conveniently I enjoy such work so very slowly I have started to send merge requests to Richard Purdie’s tree.
The first of the commits can be found here and here. No display is present since the kernel...
new beginnings
Ah tumblr. How I missed thee. Apparently tumblr hasn’t been missing me. I am surprised to find that this blog has carried on like a bizarro version of twitter, steadily republishing tweets, brightkite updates and delicious bookmark saves for months and months. Who knew?
Well there is a new sheriff in town and I’m conscripting this blog into the OMAP Linux Expeditionary Force. May...
I’m at Texas Instruments Inc - http://bkite.com/0aR3b
woke up in a cold sweat; I had forgotten today was the ISO audit! Got to work in record time and cleaned up my cube something fierce.
I’m at Highland Park - http://bkite.com/0aPEK
hell yeah! finally a new #fon coming to the USA! http://bit.ly/2z2Klj
I’m at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport - http://bkite.com/0aMmN
lap 1
got hit with overage charge on my AT&T wireless bill. I want a data-only plan with a nice voip solution. voice sucks.
I’m at Texas Instruments Inc - http://bkite.com/0aJWG
I’m at Highland Park - http://bkite.com/0aG3l
sourCEntral →
Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #linux #cycling #opensource
I’m at Texas Instruments Inc - http://bkite.com/0aFbZ
srsly, facebook is evil. don’t be fooled by the friendfeed thing. http://bit.ly/aQwD
it can be hard to focus on the same project every day. that is why one needs other projects to focus on. diversity is important.
I’m at Highland Park - http://bkite.com/0aAx5
watching sesame street during breakfast. how is it possible that big bird can’t read a book after all these years?
gonna try some homemade steamed egg rolls filled with sweet potato on tomorrow’s ride. hopefully i have invented the perfect on-bike food!
I’m at Highland Park - http://bkite.com/0avaA