Ever wondered what some of the more esoteric collective nouns might be? Need to refer to a group of spectres, demons, elves, humans, robots or just about any other creature or creation from sci-fi or fantasy? Wonder no more -...
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Once USB Networking has been configured on the BeagleBoard, everything becomes a lot easier. As ARM is now a first-class citizen for Ubuntu builds, there's now a world of Ubuntu and Debian software that can easily be installed, either with...
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I was able to pretty easily get USB networking on the beagleboard, going between my Mac and the beagleboard without a USB to Ethernet adapter (of which I have ordered one, but two weeks on, DealExtreme hasn't done much with...
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I had an issue where the beagleboard would kernel panic after a cold boot, yet if I hit the reset button it would boot up OK. Thanks to the helpful people over on the Beagle Board Google Groups page, a...
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I'll post up a HOWTO later, but for now here's where I'm at with it: ubuntu@beagleboard:~$ uname -a Linux beagleboard 2.6.29-oer44.1 #1 PREEMPT Thu Sep 3 15:45:34 UTC 2009 armv7l GNU/Linux ubuntu@beagleboard:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 3...
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I'm working on a project that's pretty scant on details at the moment, but it's going to be based around a small computer with an attached LCD. I haven't selected the display it will use yet, but the brains of...
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More information on the demise of ZFS within Mac OS X. /dev/why!?!: The loss of ZFS.
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The Guardian have put together some history, as well as input from their readers and produced a great overview of the last 40 years of teh interwebs. On one hand you could say "Look how far we've come" yet on...
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