Planet Pegasos.org
http://planet.pegasos.org/
Planet Pegasos.org - http://planet.pegasos.org/Bill & Raquel (bbrv): Certified by ATI
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/08/certified-by-ati.html
<div align="justify"><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.ati.com/products/certified/systems.html" title="Way Cool!"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/77/204219782_634f15ed85_o.jpg" width="78" height="78" alt="certified_by_ati" /></a></div><br />We will do a proper Press Release tomorrow, but this has been a l-o-n-g time in coming. The <a href="http://www.ati.com/products/certified/systems.html"><span><strong>Open Desktop Workstation</strong></span></a> has been System Certified by ATI. That makes the ODW a first! We are pretty proud of that, especially since the ATI-AMD marriage. <strong>Thanks ATI!</strong><br /><br />It is the <a href="http://www.genesippc.com/firmware.php"><span><strong>firmware</strong></span></a> that makes off-the-shelf ATI cards work so well on our <a href="http://www.power.org"><span><strong>Power Architecture</strong></span></a> technology based systems. We are very pleased to have ATI to join <em>the club</em> of hardware vendors that support the Genesi Firmware and our <a href="http://www.genesippc.com/products.php"><span><strong>related products</strong></span></a>.<br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a><br /><br />P.S. RE: ATI webpage - we are working on the Macromedia PPC Flash!<br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-08-01T21:00:04+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): See and Be Seen
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/07/see-and-be-seen.html
<div align="justify"><br /><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://static.flickr.com/73/200959536_c3cb4e53b3_o.jpg" title="Power Prague!"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/73/200959536_c3cb4e53b3.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="lukybillmarek (Prague July '06)" /></a><br /><span>Lukas, Bill, Marek (from the left), Prague, July 2006</span></div><br />You have to go where people are if you want to get them involved. Community and collaboration are just meaningless buzz words without associated action. That is <a href="http://www.genesippc.com/press.php?date=20060509"><span><strong>Bill Laumeister</strong></span></a>, Chair of the Power.org SoC Design Hierarchy Technical Subcommittee, in Prague earlier this week with the <a href="http://pegasos.jinak.cz/"><span><strong>Czech Pegasos User Group</strong></span></a> President, Lukas Stehlik, and our <a href="http://pegasos.cz/"><span><strong>Czech Reseller</strong></span></a>, Marek Klobaska.<br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-07-29T14:41:43+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): A Public Affair
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/07/public-affair.html
<div align="justify"><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://music.yahoo.com/" title="Personalization 101"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/71/199486778_d3c553496e.jpg" width="400" height="204" alt="Yahoo Music - Jessica" /></a><br /><span><strong><em>Buy the music with your name!</em></strong></span></div><br />It *is* a <strong><em>Public Affair</em></strong> and a big step in a new direction. The <em>new music industry</em> is forming. It's a remix!<br /><br />1. The song can be personalized for 500 different names. That makes 500 versions of the same thing or maybe that should be two versions: <em>mine</em> and the rest.<br /><br />2. There are no digital security management features and it can be played on all known devices (mp3).<br /><br />Jessica, Sony BMG and Yahoo Music (more to follow) vs. iTunes <br /><br />In the meanwhile, Steve Ballmer was quoted today: "Software is becoming a service." He continued: "Embracing advertising and subscription-based models and Internet-based delivery across Microsoft's product line is an important part of what we will do." <br /><br />Looks like the music folks are sorting this all out too...;-) <br /><br /><strong>Ed Note</strong> (bbrvblog 02/05/05): <em>The easier it is to copy music or video or whatever, the less of a problem piracy really is. When piracy gets easier, pirates will have less to offer or said another way -- all pirates will be fans. There are ways to organize an economy around fans -- especially when you can offer a better/cooler/more convenient way to do what they do already - see iPod success. An OPEN and "trusted" platform that leverages computing to do old things in new ways is key. The solution to DRM is a choice made in the name of a better technology inspired entertainment solution and user agreement. Think entertainment not "songs" or "videos." If we can create an environment that opens up a secure and accountable link between the artist and the audience they will both come. If we can create this possibility it will fuel the creativity to empower technology to meet a demand that won't go away. What we are doing is setting up an artist/audience oriented distribution network.</em><br /><br />We are getting there!<br /> <br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-07-27T22:00:05+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): PowerUP!
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/07/powerup.html
<div align="justify"><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://static.flickr.com/71/197211294_30827f71aa_o.png" title="Previously unknown?!"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/71/197211294_30827f71aa.jpg" width="400" height="43" alt="Previously unknown..." /></a></div><br />CIO Today has since changed <a href="http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=10000A8VI5NK"><span><strong>the text</strong></span></a>, but that is what it said when Google Alerts picked it up. Imagine! All in the same week as the Freescale Technology Forum?! Do we have a marketing problem?!<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.power.org" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/78/197197014_12206930cb.jpg" width="400" height="352" alt="PowerUp!" /></a><br /><span><strong><em>Well, maybe not any more!</em></strong></span></div><br />There is a new logo and the new <strong>Power.org</strong> website is open! There is even a <a href="http://www.power.org/blog/?p=49"><span><strong>software</strong></span></a> plan. Please come on by and check it out!<br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-07-24T19:19:37+00:00Martin Ejdestig (mejde): The Source Management System
http://coiley.zapto.org/~martin/blog/2006/07/24/the-source-management-system/
<p>that came after “the source management system that came before git”.</p>
<p>The current maintainer of <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/">Git</a> has posted his <a href="http://members.cox.net/junkio/200607-ols.pdf">slides, including a transcript</a>, of his talk at <a href="http://www.linuxsymposium.org">OLS</a>.</p>
<p>I’ve always been fascinated by the speed at which Git was developed during its infancy. When BitKeeper couldn’t be used to manage Linux any <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111280216717070">longer</a> and none of the alternatives did what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds">Linus</a> wanted them to do, or didn’t do it fast enough, he set out to write his <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111288700902396">own</a>. A couple of days later Linus did the initial <a href="http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2">import of Linux 2.6.12-rc2</a>. About two months later Linux 2.6.12, the first kernel managed by Git, was <a href="http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9ee1c939d1cb936b1f98e8d81aeffab57bae46ab">released</a>.</p>
<p>A prime example of Open Source at its finest. :)
</p>2006-07-24T18:14:58+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): SuperUsers
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/07/superusers.html
<div align="justify"><br />It serves up Windows, OSX and Gentoo. It is a fully loaded <a href="http://www.pegasosppc.com/pegasos.php"><span><strong>PegasosPPC</strong></span></a>. It replaced a Via EPIA Mini-ITX running Win 2000 Server in a big tower. The PEGASERVE is a <a href="http://vendors.gentoo.org/index.cgi?page=1&comGroup=1"><span><strong>Pegasos II G4 running Gentoo</strong></span></a> in a 4U server rack and a few more things...<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.powerpc.nu/images/fileserver/" title="RAID made easy..."><img src="http://static.flickr.com/74/196030451_7781ce3389.jpg" width="400" height="431" alt="RAID Easy-Swap" /></a><br /><span>Outside the PEGASERVE</span></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.powerpc.nu/images/fileserver/" title="Lock and load!"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/63/196030450_9989fe9689.jpg" width="400" height="365" alt="Fully loaded Pegasos II" /></a><br /><span>Inside the PEGASERVE</span></div><br /><br />CUPS works perfectly. The laser printer is accessible from Windows, Linux and OSX workstations. The printer is a Brother HL-1430 using linuxprinting.org drivers for Gentoo and official drivers for Win/OSX. File sharing is done through Samba to Win/OSX and NFS to an <a href="http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php"><span><strong>ODW</strong></span></a> running Gentoo. A movie library, music videos, backups and general data are stored on the server. A STB streams movies directly from the server. <br /><br />Disks:<br />2x 120 GB - 8MB Cache<br />+1x 200 GB - 8MB Cache<br />+1x 250 GB - 8MB Cache<br />+1x 300 GB - 16MB Cache<br />=990 GB + 2 mirrored 8MB Cache 80 GB drives for important backups providing 1070 GB of theoretical storage. Formatted capacity in XFS and EXT3 is thus around 1 TB. The disks were formatted with NTFS and mounted with Gentoo 2.6.15 (by copying everything over to last drive added after formating the older one to XFS and then making a copy-back).<br /><br />The PegasosPPC has no problem handling all this data. Playing a movie over the network consumes 0.3-0.7% of the CPU load. The PEGASERVE also helps compile Gentoo packages via the distributed compiler client distcc. At the moment the ODW and the PEGASERVE help out compiling each others packages. <br /><br />Who are the crazy <strong>SuperUsers</strong> demonstrating every day what can be done when we get involved with the computing platform we use?<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54643129@N00/196080388/" title="SuperUsers!"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/66/196080388_6a9146a897.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="iron_tie-lv_leia" /></a><br /><span>There's no dark side here!</span></div><br /><br />Thanks Kristian and Helena! You are SuperUsers!<br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-07-23T13:00:04+00:00Martin Ejdestig (mejde): Successful Indeed
http://coiley.zapto.org/~martin/blog/2006/07/21/successful-indeed/
<p>I’m sick of <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/Macs_see_growth_spurt/0,2000061702,39264094,00.htm">reading</a> about how successful Apple is in the PC market. Yes, they have some good stuff (or so I’ve heard) but that’s beside the point.</p>
<p>I had prepared a rant about Apple, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_hype">hype</a>, personal computer market share, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_zealot">Mac zealots</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field">reality distortion fields</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga">Amiga</a>/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MorphOS">MorphOS</a> zealots (the ones clinging on by their fingernails for reasons other than sentimental ones and fun), overpriced hardware, etc. but thought better of it and deleted the whole thing.</p>
<p>Instead, I’ll just show this graph:</p>
<div><a href="http://www.pegasus3d.com/macmarketshare.gif"><img width="530" height="435" src="http://www.pegasus3d.com/macmarketshare.gif" /></a></div>
<p>More <a href="http://www.pegasus3d.com/mac_sales.html">here</a> and <a href="http://www.pegasus3d.com/total_share.html">here</a>. Successful? Indeed.
</p>2006-07-21T10:49:00+00:00David Holm (dholm): Update on Linux scheduling
http://www.dholm.com/2006/07/20/update-on-linux-scheduling/
<p>If you want to know more about the Linux O(1) scheduler I can highly recommend reading <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scheduler/?ca=dgr-lnxw07LinuxScheduler">Inside the Linux scheduler</a> by Tim Jones. It is an excellent introduction into the world of scheduling in the Linux kernel without unnecessary filler clogging your brain.
</p>2006-07-20T15:11:46+00:00David Holm (dholm): Spam spam, wonderful ham
http://www.dholm.com/2006/07/19/spam-spam-wonderful-ham/
<p>I received this hilarious spam at work the other day. When you have to resort to spam to sell railroad tracks you are clearly not in the right business. At first I thought there would be a trojan or something like that embedded in the e-mail and that the body was just filler but I couldn’t find anything suspicious in the mail, well, except for the message itself that is.</p>
<p>I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. ^^<br />
<i><br />
Dear Sir/Madam,</p>
<p>RE: USED RAILS (R50-R65) FOR SALE</p>
<p>Our company is the direct selling mandates to Burkina Faso Railway Corporation and have in stock up to 1.4 Million Metric Tons of Used Rails (R50-R65) for clearance sale, at very reasonable prices. the available rails are located in five different Rail Yards in the country.</p>
<p>This clearance sale is necessitated by the impending privatization of the Corporation and the need to decongest our rail yards in preparation for the privatization.</p>
<p>Prices are negotiable on FOB, CNF and CIF basis. Site inspection, physical verification and confirmation of product quality and quantity are allowed before signing of contract. Offers are invited from serious end buyers or Agents that has access to serious potential end users/buyers</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Dr.BABIYA TRAORE<br />
SOCIMEX-BURKINA<br />
01 BP 1506 OUAGA 01<br />
BURKINA FASO.</p>
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<p>Figures it went through one of microsoft’s services. Only their users could be this .. informed ..
</p>2006-07-19T18:09:00+00:00David Holm (dholm): Firefox meets Exposé
http://www.dholm.com/2006/07/19/firefox-meets-expose/
<p>If you are like me and think that Apple’s <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/expose/">Exposé</a> is the most important desktop feature since multiple desktops then you have got to install <a href="http://aluminum.sourmilk.net/reveal/">Reveal</a> in your favorite Mozilla-based browser today! Trust me, it’s worth the effort.</p>
<p><img src="http://aluminum.sourmilk.net/reveal/head.png" alt="Reveal" />
</p>2006-07-19T17:56:10+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): CELL Simulator II
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/07/cell-simulator-ii.html
<div align="justify"><br />Yes, there is a <a href="http://www.ppczone.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=675"><span><strong>CELL Simulator</strong></span></a> running on the ODW.<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.power.org" title="Power! Power! Power!"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/27/99190500_853899269b_o.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="Looks good, huh?" /></a><br /><span><strong>Looks Good!</strong></span></div><br />Nice work Luca!<br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a> <br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-07-15T17:36:25+00:00Emanuel Steen (kozz): Tip of the day
http://www.kozz.org/?postid=14
As Firefox 2 Beta is hot news right now I wanted to make a note about the best extension to Firefox 1.0 - 1.5 there is imho - <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/">Tab Mix Plus</a>. I wonder how anyone can survive without it :)2006-07-13T19:26:10+00:00Martin Ejdestig (mejde): The Demise of The Pygmy Chimp
http://coiley.zapto.org/~martin/blog/2006/07/13/the-demise-of-the-pygmy-chimp/
<p>Last week, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus">Nautilus</a> captain (Alexander Larsson) <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/view/alexl/2006/07/06/0">merged the dbus branch</a>, which uses <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus">dbus</a> instead of <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libbonobo">bonobo</a> for IPC, into <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-vfs">gnome-vfs HEAD</a>.</p>
<p>Only $(jhbuild info libbonobo | grep Required-by: | awk -F , ‘{ print NF-4 }’) (i.e. 5) modules to go and the chimp is dead. :)</p>
<p>(For those of you who wasn’t blessed with a sense of humor and/or computer knowledge… this has absolutely <em>nothing</em> to do with live animals.)
</p>2006-07-13T17:50:33+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): Power Time!
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/07/power-time.html
<div align="justify"><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.power.org/news/articles/PAC_announce" title="PAC Shanghai"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/49/188708420_9511bdac08_o.jpg" width="352" height="264" alt="PAC Shanghai" /></a><br /><span>Power.org is Open for Business in China</span><br /><br />We announced <a href="http://www.genesippc.com/press.php?date=20060712"><span><strong>this</strong></span></a> yesterday and <a href="http://www.genesippc.com/press.php?date=20060713"><span><strong>this</strong></span></a> today. Guess what is next?!</div><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.power.org"><img src="http://www.ppczone.org/images/link_powerorg.png" width="165" height="47" border="0" /></a><br /><span>There is a LOT happening here!</span></div><br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-07-13T12:30:46+00:00Martin Ejdestig (mejde): Pressing Words
http://coiley.zapto.org/~martin/blog/2006/07/11/pressing-words/
<p>Moved my web page and blog to my own server. The <a title="Old home page" href="http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~mejde">old page</a> and <a title="Old blog" href="http://mejde.blogspot.com">blog</a> are no more.</p>
<p>I also decided to have the page consist solely of <a title="Wordpress Homepage" href="http://wordpress.org">Wordpress</a>. This will most likely result in more rants from yours truly. :)
</p>2006-07-11T18:58:29+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): la victoire est en nous...;-)
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/07/la-victoire-est-en-nous.html
<div align="justify"><br />La Coppa del Mondo è stata un grande evento. <br /><br />Congratulazioni alla Germania!<br /><br />Congratulazioni all'Italia, che ha vinto il Campionato del Mondo.<br /><br />In questo caso, il "mondo" era coinvolto e il mondo stava guardando!<br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-07-10T00:57:43+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): ???? ???? ??????
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/07/blog-post.html
<div align="justify"><br />If you went to school in Europe, you might have studied Greek. Or, perhaps, you were a budding theologian, but it is more likely that you can relate to the Latin <em>quod erat demonstrandum</em> that you might remember from a Geometry class long ago. The abbreviated version is QED.<br /><br />What core is best and why? QED:<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.top500.org/lists/2006/06" title="Top500"><img src="http://www.top500.org/static/lists/2006/06/charts/4/s/Processor_Family.png" width="400" height="300" alt="Genesi SoC" /></a></div><br />Power fills the first three places and eleven of the top twenty. At the top, this is being done with a "slow" 800MHz processor.<br /><br />Last year, Genesi won <a href="http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2005/06/it-is-wonder.html"><span><strong>Best of Show</strong></span></a> at the Inaugural Freescale Technology Forum. This was all before Viiv and <a href="http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/01/ces-2006-freescale-genesi.html"><span><strong>CES 2006</strong></span></a>. You can learn how to build your own <a href="http://www.digitaltvdesignline.com/howto/voicedatanetworking/184430137"><span><strong>here</strong></span></a>. This was done with a 1GHz processor.<br /><br />Wait! We are not talking about cores! We are talking about systems! In Power.org we are not talking about a Company, we are talking about an ecosystem. If we address system solutions with design consideration from all the Power.org membership then we are thinking about every thing and not just <em>our thing</em>.<br /><br />This <a href="http://www.genesippc.com/slideshow.php?name=power.org"><span><strong>presentation</strong></span></a> is over six months old now, but the same <a href="http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2005/12/every-developer-needs-desktop.html"><span><strong>things</strong></span></a> hold true. <br /><br />Stay tuned. <br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.power.org"><img src="http://www.ppczone.org/images/link_powerorg.png" width="165" height="47" border="0" /></a><br /><span>There is a LOT happening here!</span></div><br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-07-04T14:26:33+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong...
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/07/race-is-not-to-swift-or-battle-to.html
<div align="justify"><br />The conventional wisdom works like this:<br /><br />The home entertainment market is going through a revolutionary transformation to digital technology. Two things are happening. One is technology is getting better at addressing user desires (DVDs, faster/broader internet, digital cameras, etc.) and the other is governments are forcing change - analogue television is being switched off. <br /><br />In the meanwhile, TV manufacturers (or for that matter consumer electronics manufacturers) are scrambling to serve up a solution to the market that satisfies all the digital content possibilities and all the ways it could get to the user. Actually, many others are lining up to address this market. It is not just the Philips, Grundig or Beko, it is Cisco, Motorola, Intel and who knows who is next.<br /><br />All this convergence is happening around the set top box. The IDTV, STB or IP STB vision for the future has everyone scrambling. We might as well throw the $100 computer into the mix. It is all the same SoC. It looks like this:<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54643129@N00/152429072/" title="Genesi SoC"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/49/152429072_22a25e217a.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="Genesi SoC" /></a><br /><span>It is <a href="http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/02/soc-4u2.html"><span><strong>4U2</strong></span></a>!!!</span><a></a></div><br />What core is best and why? That is the big question and the focus this week. We are back! Stay tuned. <br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-07-02T15:20:55+00:00David Holm (dholm): Benchmark Galore
http://www.dholm.com/2006/06/29/benchmark-galore/
<p>I needed a simple benchmark for testing transfer speeds when reading multiple files in parallel from a single block device but none of the available once quite did what I wanted them to so of course I had to write one myself.</p>
<p>You will need a half-decent C++-compiler and the invaluable <a href="http://www.boost.org/">Boost C++ Libraries</a> in order to compile the benchmark. Pass the files to be read as arguments to the applications, each file will be assigned its own thread of execution.<br />
Download the benchmark source code <a id="p15" href="http://www.dholm.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/benchmark.cpp">here</a>. Constructive criticism ranging from validity of the benchmark to coding style is always welcome!
</p>2006-06-29T20:33:19+00:00David Holm (dholm): A look at the latest in free real-time scheduling in the Linux kernel
http://www.dholm.com/2006/06/29/a-look-at-the-latest-in-free-real-time-scheduling-in-the-linux-kernel/
<h3>Background</h3>
<p>Real-time capabilities of the Linux kernel is not in itself a new concept. Projects such as <a href="https://www.rtai.org/">RTAI</a> and FSMLabs’ <a href="http://www.rtlinuxfree.com/">RTLinux</a> have existed for quite some time and they perform very well. The problem with previous methods have been that the Linux kernel has not been able to offer the deterministic latencies that most real-time systems need so most implementations have been based on a concept of abstraction. By letting interrupts be trapped by a nano kernel, instead of Linux itself, it has been possible to add the notion of deterministic real-time threads without having to perform major surgery on Linux itself. In the world of RTAI <a href="http://home.gna.org/adeos/">ADEOS</a> is used for this very purpose. The problem with these approaches, at least in the free real-time implementations, was that real-time threads had to be implemented in kernel space, making it difficult to work with since it wasn’t always possible to use existing code written for user-space deployment.</p>
<p>Things started changing when <a href="http://www.mvista.com/">MontaVista</a> released the preempt patch for the 2.4-series kernel. The preemption patches for 2.4 allowed kernel threads to voluntarily yield execution or force preemption on sleep or interrupts. This was of course not the perfect implementation because true preemption should be allowed at any time except when executing sensitive regions of code which must be allowed to complete in order not to leave the system in an invalid or partially invalid state, however the 2.4 kernel was not quite ready for this yet.<br />
Two other important changes were Ingó Molnár’s O(1)-scheduler and low-latency patches. The O(1)-scheduler is a very fast scheduler based on table lookups. It is important to have a fast scheduling algorithm when using preemption, especially when running at a high frequency like 1000Hz, since the scheduler is going to be called a lot and must not present a bottleneck. The low-latency patch modifies large, protected, loops and similar bottlenecks in the kernel so that the scheduler can intervene at a safe place if the loop runs for a long time, a sort of voluntary yield of execution if necessary.</p>
<p>All these concepts were merged in the 2.5 development series of Linux and the concept of preemption was further developed in order to implement true preemption instead of a semi-voluntary one. The next big hurdle to overcome was lock breaking. Critical sections in the kernel are protected by locks so that in a multiprocessor system two, or more, processors cannot access, and possibly corrupt, the same resource at once. Similar rules apply to preemption, it is not always appropriate to preempt the current kernel thread and therefore locks are also used to prevent preemption. The problem with this scheme is that if a lock is held for too long it will delay the scheduler from being executed and consequently increasing latency. Therefore the lock-breaking done by the low-latency patch was very valuable since the work done there had already resulted in tracking down many of the bottlenecks caused by holding locks for too long and finding points where these locks could safely be preempted.<br />
All these changes meant that Linux was suddenly capable of worst-case response times of under 10ms for real-time threads, which is good, but not good enough.</p>
<h3>Ingó Molnár to the rescue</h3>
<p>When the rest of us had given up on deterministic real-time scheduling in user space Ingó Molnár returned to save the day yet another time. Ingó’s patch uses mutexes instead of spinlocks to protect critical sections. Because of that critical sections can now be preempted much like the same way a user-space thread can be preempted at any time. He has also introduced a priority inheritance scheduling algorithm to avoid potential priority inversion problems that could occur when a critical section is preempted. Another really nice feature is that IRQs are presented as schedulable entities in the system and you can modify their priority by using <em>chrt</em> from Robert Love’s <a href="http://rlove.org/schedutils">schedutils</a>.</p>
<h3>Results</h3>
<p>These measurements were made on two similar 2.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 systems using Mark Hounschell’s <a href="ftp://ftp.compro.net/public/rt-exec/">rt-exec</a> (1.0.3) test for finding the “<em>deterministic real-time capabilities of a computer</em>“. The realtime-preempt tests were run at both 250 and 1000Hz.</p>
<p><b>2.6.16 stock kernel with Gentoo patch set at 250Hz</b></p>
<pre>
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Run 00:10:36:237 NonHR-clk 14:40:22 Work:200 CPU:04 Avg:04 Max:18 Pg:0 ?
? DataPool:SHM Exec Heart Beat Rate:250Hz Exec Revision:1.0.3-1 ?
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Task Sched Cpu Intr Late -Interrupt Latencies (usec)- ?
? Taskname Type Pr P Mask Cnt Cnt Spare Current Best Worst Determ?
? exec hrt 5 F 1 159237 0 3767 3 3 15 12?
? task1 dth 29 F 1 39810 0 3989 15 14 82 68?
? task2 dth 28 F 1 39809 0 3988 15 14 82 68?
? task3 sth 25 F 1 79619 0 1987 13 13 82 69?
? task4 sth 24 F 1 79618 0 1987 13 13 78 65?
? task5 sem 23 F 1 159237 0 988 6 6 61 55?
? task6 sem 22 F 1 79619 0 1988 5 5 34 29?
? task7 sig 19 F 1 79619 0 1988 6 5 35 30?
? task8 sig 18 F 1 79618 0 1987 6 6 38 32?
? task9 hrt 17 R 1 159308 0 1988 1977 1566 2151 585?
? task10 hrt 17 R 1 159301 0 1987 1976 1586 2150 564?
? task11 hrn 14 R 1 159295 0 988 2981 2450 3167 717?
? task12 hrn 14 R 1 159287 0 988 2981 2560 3157 597?
? task13 hru 11 R 1 159280 0 988 2981 2338 3186 848?
? task14 hru 11 R 1 159272 0 987 2981 2227 3187 960?
? task15 bth 7 R 1 159237 0 988 12 11 75 64?
? task16 bth 7 R 1 159237 0 988 36 35 203 168?
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</pre>
<p><b>2.6.17 kernel with Gentoo patch set and realtime-preempt at 250Hz</b></p>
<pre>
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? Run 00:12:56:243 Posix-hrt 15:34:51 Work:200 CPU:05 Avg:06 Max:07 Pg:0 ?
? DataPool:SHM Exec Heart Beat Rate:250Hz Exec Revision:1.0.3-1 ?
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Task Sched Cpu Intr Late -Interrupt Latencies (usec)- ?
? Taskname Type Pr P Mask Cnt Cnt Spare Current Best Worst Determ?
? exec hrt 5 F 1 194243 0 3837 1 0 174 174?
? task1 dth 29 F 1 48561 0 15993 40 18 450 432?
? task2 dth 28 F 1 48561 0 15991 35 17 522 505?
? task3 sth 25 F 1 97122 0 7993 24 14 300 286?
? task4 sth 24 F 1 97121 0 7992 19 14 311 297?
? task5 sem 23 F 1 194243 0 3994 9 3 294 291?
? task6 sem 22 F 1 97122 0 7993 7 3 193 190?
? task7 sig 19 F 1 97122 0 7992 14 7 227 220?
? task8 sig 18 F 1 97121 0 7993 14 7 227 220?
? task9 hrt 17 R 1 96035 0 7982 29 14 261 247?
? task10 hrt 17 R 1 96032 0 7992 43 16 330 314?
? task11 hrn 14 R 1 191591 0 3994 31 9 340 331?
? task12 hrn 14 R 1 191582 0 3984 21 10 350 340?
? task13 hru 11 R 1 191570 0 3993 29 9 308 299?
? task14 hru 11 R 1 191562 0 3983 20 9 343 334?
? task15 bth 7 R 1 194243 0 3992 31 15 386 371?
? task16 bth 7 R 1 194243 0 3991 18 16 355 339?
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</pre>
<p><b>2.6.17 kernel with Gentoo patch set and realtime-preempt at 1000Hz</b></p>
<pre>
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? Run 00:07:43:731 Posix-hrt 14:37:05 Work:200 CPU:24 Avg:24 Max:26 Pg:0 ?
? DataPool:SHM Exec Heart Beat Rate:1000Hz Exec Revision:1.0.3-1 ?
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Task Sched Cpu Intr Late -Interrupt Latencies (usec)- ?
? Taskname Type Pr P Mask Cnt Cnt Spare Current Best Worst Determ?
? exec hrt 5 F 1 463732 0 831 2 0 263 263?
? task1 dth 29 F 1 115933 0 3992 62 19 381 362?
? task2 dth 28 F 1 115933 0 3993 50 18 417 399?
? task3 sth 25 F 1 231866 0 1992 28 14 330 316?
? task4 sth 24 F 1 231866 0 1992 34 14 307 293?
? task5 sem 23 F 1 463732 0 993 15 3 311 308?
? task6 sem 22 F 1 231866 0 1992 10 3 243 240?
? task7 sig 19 F 1 231866 0 1990 15 7 268 261?
? task8 sig 18 F 1 231866 0 1990 17 7 271 264?
? task9 hrt 17 R 1 224848 0 1989 52 13 222 209?
? task10 hrt 17 R 1 224581 0 1991 34 15 208 193?
? task11 hrn 14 R 1 445313 0 992 20 10 217 207?
? task12 hrn 14 R 1 444804 0 991 23 10 306 296?
? task13 hru 11 R 1 443863 0 993 39 11 329 318?
? task14 hru 11 R 1 443400 0 980 23 10 252 242?
? task15 bth 7 R 1 463732 0 992 36 16 357 341?
? task16 bth 7 R 1 463732 0 991 22 15 309 294?
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
</pre>
<p>Notice how scheduling latencies in the FIFO scheduler have been sacrificed in order to improve latencies in the real-time scheduler and make them deterministic. Without realtime-preempt the difference between worst case latencies and deterministic latencies in the real-time scheduler is about 1:3 whereas with realtime-preempt it’s 1:1. Even though FIFO latencies are worse deterministic scheduling latencies overall are what makes this patch so important for a real-time system since it is now possible to predict precise behavior. This in turn means that you can deduce whether Linux is an appropriate tool for your real-time application without having to use unnecessarily overpowered hardware in order to guarantee deadlines.<br />
Things are starting to look good in the future. The timing couldn’t be better considering several mobile phone manufacturers are evaluating Linux as a next-gen platform for their devices. Another field where Linux is seeing growth is in multimedia applications, anything ranging from portable media players to set top boxes seem to be Linux-powered these days and deterministic latencies are really important in these applications.</p>
<p>You can get Ingó Molnár’s realtime-preempt patch from his website at RedHat, <a href="http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/">http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/</a>. He updates it quite often so check in regularly.</p>
<p>Paul E. McKenney has written an excellent summary on most of the different approaches to real-time adaptations of the Linux kernel. You can find it at Kerneltrap under the title <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5291">Linux: Realtime Approaches</a>.
</p>2006-06-29T19:18:31+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): We are alive!
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/06/we-are-alive.html
<div align="justify"><br />Hey! We are alive. Everything is fine. More news soon!<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.power.org"><img src="http://www.ppczone.org/images/link_powerorg.png" width="165" height="47" border="0" /></a><br /><span>There is a LOT happening here!</span></div><br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a> <br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-06-29T10:21:41+00:00Martin Ejdestig (mejde): hci_conformity = true
http://coiley.zapto.org/~martin/blog/2006/06/20/hci_conformity-true/
<p>Even though two weeks has gone by since this first came to my attention it still makes me chuckle. Without further ado, I give you, The Ultimate Proof That You Just Don’t Have a Clue:</p>
<blockquote><p>; hci_conformity [BOOL] - file drag’n'drop operations are HCI conform (aka: normal<br />
; drag’n'drop will always copy the file and ALT+drag’n'drop will always move the<br />
; file unrelated if the target is same volume or not. (default: false)<br />
;<br />
;hci_conformity = true</p>
</blockquote>2006-06-20T14:08:00+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): Innovation *Matters* (reprise)
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/06/innovation-matters-reprise.html
367 days ago we wrote this...<br /><br />*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*<br /><div align="justify"><br />OK, we are a couple days late, but we have been involved for a while and we just want to say that <strong>Sun Microsystems</strong>, <em>above all other major players in the IT market</em>, <strong>is the innovation leader.</strong><div align="center"><a href="http://www.opensolaris.org"><br /><img border="0" alt="OpenSolaris: Innovation Matters" title="OpenSolaris: Innovation Matters" src="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/buttons/innomat_os_blk_125.gif" /><br /></a></div><br />We predict, that in the long run, OpenSolaris will contribute more to the IT universe than Windows or GNU/Linux. It will take time, but backed up by a consistent corporate strategy, Java, the Sun Grid and a pantheon of bloggers, Sun is destined "to boldly go where no one has gone before." We are extremely proud to have be part of the OpenSolaris Pilot Project. To all our fellow Pilot Project participants and Sun: <strong>Salute!</strong><br /><br />R&B; :-)<br /><br />P.S. Did we mention for a limited time the ODW is only <a href="https://www.pegasosppc.com/store.php?category=10"><span><strong>$799</strong></span></a>?! After all, it is the <a href="http://www.blastware.org"><span><strong>Blastware</strong></span></a> target! :-) We have plotted a course for <strong><em>Polaris</em></strong> (thanks Cyril!). Barings straight. Warp speed ahead!<br /><br />*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*<br /><br /><div align="center">C899A4C89AA4C89A888A<br />81778069923029938418</div><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong>What is next? How about this:</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://static.flickr.com/68/157382967_79a7fd0185_o.jpg" title="Polaris on ODW"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/45/157380815_4157e39db0.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="Polaris on ODW" /></a><br /><span><em>We have lift off!</em></span><a></a></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.mypowerpc.org"><img src="http://images.genesi.lu/slides/grid/GridBig.png" width="350" height="464" border="0" /></div></a><br /><strong>Great!</strong><br /><br /><div align="left">R&B;<a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a></div>2006-06-18T13:45:24+00:00Matt Sealey (Neko): Full Throttle
http://likerabbits.blogspot.com/2006/06/full-throttle.html
I always used the analogy "using a jet engine to cool it" when talking about Intel servers and the latest big-iron technology. And now..<br /><br /><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16992&ch=infotech">http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16992&ch=infotech</a>2006-06-16T16:30:16+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): Give me a P !!!
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/06/give-me-p.html
<div align="justify"><br /><strong> P-O-W-E-R !!!</strong> <strong> POWER !!!</strong> <strong>Rah !!!</strong> <strong>Rah !!!</strong> <strong>Rant !!!</strong><br /><br />Rant?! Yes, rant. Here goes:<br /><br />We spent a few hours listening to the <a href="http://www.ibm.com/investor/events/global0606/"><strong>IBM Global Business Briefing</strong></a> yesterday and this morning. Listening to everything it is hard to understand why the stock is trading down. IBM (NYSE:IBM) is the market. This could be part of the problem. This could also be the reason for hope!<br /><br />Our take away: we think there is one thing that IBM might not have. That is, reach enough into customers and market activity before trends can be identified and acted upon by such a large organization. IBM is perfectly organized for organized markets! <br /><br /><strong>Moving closer to the source of innovation is a Power.org goal.</strong> <br /><br />We think the secrets that an open POWER based platform like the <a href="http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php"><strong>ODW</strong></a> or Freescale's <a href="http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?nodeId=02VS0l594102D5&tid=FSH"><strong>Office-in-a-Box</strong></a> can unlock are still mostly a mystery to big companies. Example: Linux came from a developer's humble desktop. How long did it take for that to change the world? Future innovations could come even <a href="http://projects.ppczone.org/projects.php?program=EFIKA"><strong>faster</strong></a>. It is for this reason, we will simultaneously launch the <a href="http://www.pegasosppc.com/efika.php"><strong>EFIKA</strong></a> with <a href="http://www.power2people.org"><strong>power2people</strong></a> and the hardware's availability through Freescale's <a href="http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=PPCG40010"><strong>DevToolDirect</strong></a> Program. The EFIKA is the first Reference Platform validated by the Reference Platform TSC of <a href="http://www.power.org"><strong>Power.org</strong></a>.<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.power2people.org" title="Can you feel the POWER?!"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/74/162861635_c8cf44d90a.jpg" width="400" height="256" alt="power2PEOPLE" /></a><br /><span>This is better than the <em>$100 laptop</em></span></div><br />In the meanwhile, "the race is on to serve 'the next billion' in emerging markets." Other market players are "<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_24/b3988068.htm"><strong>In Search Of A PC For The People </strong></a>." That is not it. The opportunity is more than a "point product." The new business model emerging is the _solution for people_ that is a service applied at many different levels (for an end user, for a service provider, for a ?!?). The opportunity could address a *lot* of activity! It is bigger than a "<a href="http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2005/12/quadruple-play.html"><strong>quadruple play</strong></a>" because it can touch on everything people do. The big question: "Whose low-cost model will win?" <br /><br />Let the world focus there. They miss the point! And, by the way, it is not just about having a desktop that validates POWER in the server market and everywhere else either. It is that, but it is more than that too.<br /><br />We feel the way to organize the "nervous system" needed to really understand and direct the massive company that is IBM <strong>is Power.org</strong>. It was a good idea. A rising tide lifts all boats, <em>and IBM too</em>.<br /> <br />Collaboration and market pull is self-organizing. Power.org is where that can happen and Members can monetize the result of that activity faster than any one else if the process and structure is in place. We think Genesi's future depends on the success of Power.org.<br /><br />We feel we have a foundation in our Developer friendly POWER-based platforms and some <a href="http://www.ppczone.org"><strong>experience</strong></a> to do our share to make Power.org work. Other Members also have value to contribute. We may not have the resources to hire thousands of developers as IBM, but frankly even IBM's budget is not big enough to address the opportunity being created by the humanity ready to join the global economy over the next few years. Power.org generated empowerment spawned by the collaborative opportunities of an open platform can create the key to unlock the massive opportunity emerging.<br /><br />We have a <a href="http://www.genesippc.com/slideshow.php?name=power.org"><strong>plan</strong></a> and a new hardware platform in mind. We intend to leverage Power.org to make it work. Let's get on with it!<br /><br /><strong> P-O-W-E-R !!!</strong> <strong> POWER !!!</strong> <strong>POWER2PEOPLE !!!</strong><br /><br /><div align="left">R&B;<a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a></div>2006-06-09T12:00:05+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): power2people
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/06/power2people.html
<div align="justify"><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.pegasosppc.com/efika.php" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/74/162861635_c8cf44d90a.jpg" width="400" height="256" alt="power2PEOPLE" /></a></div> <br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_24/b3988068.htm?chan=tc&chan=technology_technology+index+page_computers"><span><strong>In Search Of A PC For The People</strong></span></a></div><br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a> <br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-06-08T07:35:34+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): POV-Ray on POWER
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/06/pov-ray-on-power.html
<div align="justify"><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.blastware.org" title="OSW CELL Simulator?"><img src="http://www.blastware.org/docs/images/quick_test_002.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="OSW CELL Simulator?" /></a></div><br /><br />The picture is worth the <a href="http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/06/cell-simulator.html"><span><strong>other</strong></span></a> 500 words. That is enough for now! <br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a> <br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-06-06T11:18:35+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): CELL Simulator
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/06/cell-simulator.html
<div align="justify"><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://static.flickr.com/39/112833476_3ce860829e_b.jpg" title="OSW CELL Simulator"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/55/161314949_169a2663a4_o.png" width="400" height="101" alt="OSW CELL Simulator" /></a><br /></div><br /><br />The picture is worth 500 words. More tomorrow...<br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a> <br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-06-06T00:51:32+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): Change Me!
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/06/change-me.html
<div align="justify"><br />Change is an inevitable part of life. Change mostly comes to us, but change as an objective is change that is won through hard work and perseverance. The latter is something entirely different than the former. <br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.genesi.lu/presentation.php"><img src="http://images.genesi.lu/movies/Anim_Preview_Small.jpg" width="400" height="207" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><a><div align="center"><a href="http://www.genesi.lu/presentation.php"><span>The OPEN PowerPC Computing Platform<br /><br />Scalable, Upgradeable, Flexible<br />Value, Choice, Freedom</span></a></div></a><br /><br />What would you change about this presentation? Is the message still good? Your feedback is appreciated!<br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a> <br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-06-03T11:13:15+00:00Bill & Raquel (bbrv): Digital Rock Stars
http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/06/digital-rock-stars.html
<div align="justify"><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.power.org"><img src="http://www.ppczone.org/images/link_powerorg.png" width="165" height="47" border="0" /></a><br /><span><strong>We Want You!</strong></span></div><br />The <a href="http://www.ppczone.org/conference.php"><span><strong>Power.org Worldwide Developer Conference</strong></span></a> will be held in San Francisco 5-7 December. You will certainly want to be there. In the meanwhile, come on over and <a href="http://www.power.org/join/"><span><strong>join</strong></span></a>! You are welcome to send us an email if you have questions.<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54643129@N00/158597657/" title="Genesi CTO, Gerald Carda"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/55/158597657_67ad0717e8.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="Gerald@PegasosPPC Day, SNDF Frankfurt 2004" /></a></div><br />We intend to fashion the Event around the highly successful <a href="http://www.ppcnux.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4208#part2"><span><strong>PegasosPPC Day</strong></span></a> we hosted with Freescale after <a href="http://www.pegasosppc.com/gallery.php?id=112"><span><strong>SNDF Europe</strong></span></a> in the fall of 2004.<br /><br />There are really two important ingredients to the Conference. What happens <a href="http://www.ppcnux.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4208"><strong>during</strong></span></a> the Event and what happens <a href="http://projects.ppczone.org/projects.php?project=229"><strong>after</strong></span></a>. Beyond just the <a href="http://www.pegasosppc.com/efika.php"><strong>hardware</strong></span></a> (another <a href="http://www.ppczone.org/news.php?id=270"><strong>example</strong></span></a>), there has to be a way to keep things <a href="http://projects.ppczone.org/projects.php?program=EFIKA"><strong>organized</strong></span></a>. You can read through <a href="http://www.genesippc.com/slideshow.php?name=power.org"><strong>this presentation</strong></span></a> if you are really interested in the subject.<br /><br />Have a look at the <a href="http://www.genesippc.com/slideshow.php?name=powerservices"><span><strong>PowerProjectCenter</strong></span></a> currently being considered. Before, during and after, this online resource could be at the ready. <br /><br /><em>There is change afoot!</em><br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.genesippc.com" title="Genesi Powered"><img src="http://images.pegasosppc.com/powerbygenesi.gif" width="136" height="23" alt="Genesi Powered" /></a></div>R&B;<a href="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62360255_0cfdba865f_o.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="Happy Face!" /></a> <br /></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/app/"></a>2006-06-02T11:22:11+00:00