Nishanth' tech rambles

http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6194139.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news As of last, Linus was against pulling in GPL3 for kernel... what sayeth he now??? Gotta read it sometime later this weekend.. Update: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6228340866.html GPL V3: http://gplv3.fsf.org/ - there is GPL and LGPL - Good!! One feature I am worried upon is the "non tviozation" concept: Imagine.. one day Linus says ok to GPL v3 for linux, all apps are GPL V3. Now, using today's technology, the h/w vendor who releases a GPL V3 based software for a cellphone..needs to ensure that you dont have a malicious "cracked" version running on the board. How does they do it? by providing signature for images.. Does "non tvio" software mean the signatures are published? Errr.. beats the purpose right? Does this imply that the vendor should impart the tools to make the modified s/w run on thier boards -Errrr.... why should the vendor want to give the key to t...

Intrest Story: Amusia Musica La MainFrama : http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2007/07/IBM1401_Musical Ze Linux Killer?? Reiser SNAFU! For some one who had hacked around with File systems, name such as JFFS2,JFFS3 etc reminded strongly of reiserfs -> the filesystem that made ext2fs look crap.. Now.. this!! http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-07/ff_hansreiser Voca Silencia : http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070626-internet-radio-day-of-silence-hushes-thousands-of-stations.html Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070628-rep-inslee-game-simply-not-over-for-net-radio-now-or-on-july-15.html Essentially.. get ur ipods and shared drives ready.. internet stations are dying!!! Power: Lol.. intel understands it today??? but then the media was always slow compared to research community.. http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/power-plays.ars Open Kerala Project: Will the Open Kerala become Open Karela (bittergord in Hindi)?? Knowing th...

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Business : --Programmer shortage: A problem, but what kind? How bad? And how to solve it?-- Convinced that the software programmer crisis is due to fewer college students coming into technical fields, Jack Ganssle points to "stark numbers" that have convinced him of the urgency of the problem. http://newsletter.embedded.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBAJ10FyTZ10FrY0FLqX0Ex --Five chipmakers control 32% of manufacturing, says analyst-- Samsung, TSMC, Intel, Toshiba, and UMC had the five largest shares of the world's chip manufacturing capacity at the end of 2006, with a combined capacity of just over 2.9 million 200-mm equivalent wafer per month. They accounted for 32 percent of total wafer capacity as of year-end 2006, according to market research company IC Insights. http://newsletter.eetimes.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBALV0FyTZ10FrK0FLvK0EG --Big shakeup predicted in flash memory markets-- The market for trapped charge and phase change memories is set to outpace many other flash memory sec...

People who know me, know my love for UML. Ever since I used it for my Master's project, I have been a fan of UML. After years of experimentation between Visio and Rational Rose(depending on the resources available to the project I worked on), I have always felt that Rational Rose took the prize! In my opinion, opensource was always lagging behind. I played with ArgoUML , KUML , Dia and bunch of other projects, never got convinced.. Today, the search began again, since my Rational Rose 98 License expired and I was lazy to contact IT for getting a new one.. Then hit this deadly project: Star UML . Love its capability - a cross between Visio and Rational Rose. It can read my Rose MDL files, generate C++ code and overall pretty usefull.. Loves: Formatting Options -> For someone who plays with usecases, aligning them properly was a pain in Rational Rose, easy on Visio.. Ability to generate code easily (unlike Grr.. Rational rose which needs a deployment and component view to do anyt...

From u boot mailing list - one lil nugget of a link: http://download.micron.com/pdf/technotes/nand/tn2916.pdf At least the concepts remain same for all platforms... they might miss a little bit on certificates etc.. Oh by the way, Mentor Graphics is sponsoring how they "empowered" USB on TI's DaVinci processor, next month on embedded magazine!! grok brok pow mow...

For someone of physics background... this news is interesting: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/15-06/st_best Future vehicles: http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/news/2007/06/future_engines

For those who have seen Tesla in the movie Prestige will enjoy this: http://newsletter.eetimes.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/e8rv0FyTZ10FrX0FKEC0AM --Wibree becomes Ultra Low Power Bluetooth--The Bluetooth Special Interest Group and Wibree forum are merging in amove that makes the Nokia pioneered ultra low power wirelesstechnology part of the Bluetooth specification as an ultra low powerBluetooth technology. http://newsletter.eetimes.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/e8rv0FyTZ10FrX0FKEA0AK --Intel details R&D on multi-core--In a handful of recent technical papers, Intel Corp. is disclosingmore details about its research into the future of multi-coreprocessors. http://newsletter.eetimes.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/e8rv0FyTZ10FrX0FKD80AA

http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/mailinglists/etiquette.php Love his spelling... If you reply to a message, avoid top-posting like this: Thank you for your reply. Wouldn't it be a better idea to frobnicate foo? Bob -----Original Message----- From: Alice [ mailto:alice@example.com ] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:47 PM To: Bob Cc: linux-arm-kernel Subject: Re: What is foo supposed to do? It's to make sure bar does not eat the gnats.

For those folks interested in audio drivers... ALSA Vs OSS debate rolls on... Thread: http://linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2007-June/019294.html