Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Drooling on the Arm

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Arm based boards are becoming more and more powerful and complete with nifty peripherals like gpu, gps and accelerometers. Making them perfe...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Playing god - messing with Terrain in WorldWind Java

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I wish i could say I did this but, it is clearly in Italian. Very nice to see what can be done with the nice clean framwork WorldWind provid...

Wrangling with Curly Monkeys

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I had some files delivered via FTP to me. Sounds simple enough - not really : the FTP server is apparently FTPS://. Oh great they are carefu...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Giving answers - messing around at Stack Overflow

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I got onto SO a couple of days ago. Since then I have learnt an incredible amount of Java and Python via the quickfire question-answer syst...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Economics of Chip Making - cut throat market

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There was a very old story I was told once about 3 chips that could be - Zilog Z80, Motorola 68000 and the pre-maturely born Intel 8086. The...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Riding around in the rain

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Hobart has some pretty good bike tracks if you can handle them in the wet in an unfamiliar ride. Went up a hill mostly on foot because I cou...
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Maintaining the fantasy - while the real people sleep

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I was just reading on the Warhammer Online server architecture and hosting system in the Intel Zine . Fascinating description of what is ess...