Archive for the 'technology' Category

Linux Collaboration Summit - MeeGo Workgroup
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Hey all,
It was a great time in San Francisco last week when I attended the Linux Collaboration Summit.

Presentations from key people of big companies (there were also summit sponsors) fulfill the first day agenda.
I highlight Intel and Nokia presentations, both showing what they want with Meego and both emphasizing the collaborative and open source aspects […]

Ensuring SSD alignment with parted tool
Monday, July 20th, 2009

I’ll show how to partition your SSD Vertex disk keeping the desired alignment to SSD erase block size. The following links were useful to point me that align partitions increase the SSD performance and how to complete the first part of the Journey to set up my Ubuntu+MacBook Pro+Vertex SSD.
http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48309
You would ask me why don’t […]

Macbook Pro 5,1 + OCZ Vetex 120GB + Ubuntu
Monday, July 20th, 2009

I’ve just finished.
After buy a SSD Vertex, I finally get my whole system working and now I can say: it’s not hard, it’s tricky. I’ll write some posts to let my efforts registered and maybe help someone to get the same success.
First of all, why did I buy a SSD?
I’m addicted to I/O performance. Actually […]

Avoiding conflict with Scratchbox
Friday, September 12th, 2008

We noticed that many people are giving up to try Mamona due to 2 reasons:

We were requesting the user to install a qemu compatible version.  Of course this can bother people that use Scratchbox or another emulated system. Even Scratchbox has its own qemu you need to register the right interpreter on kernel through binfmt_misc […]

Mamona SDK pre-release!!!!
Monday, August 11th, 2008

We’ve published the repositories of Mamona SDK 0.2Pre-release!!!!
Follow the instructions to install and use the SDK. If you have any doubts or bug reports:

mail list (mamona-devel <at> garage <dot> maemo <dot> org )
http://dev.openbossa.org/trac/mamona/report
#mamona at freenode

The following machines are supported: Nokia770, Nokia800, Nokia810 and Omap3430sdp.
We divided the work in three parts:

SDK itself: Our SDK was a […]

Midori, Firefox 3, Beagleboard and Mamona
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Lets welcome Keppler and  Eduardo Valentin! The new comers are working from INdT Manaus site and they already achieved GREAT results! Thanks guys!
The news:

Midori: Webkit based browser running with Mamona
Firefox 3 running with Mamona
Mamona working with Beagleboard

Enjoy the links!
What’s next?? SDK and Network daemon. Mamona 0.2 is coming…

Virtual Keyboard in Mamona
Monday, July 21st, 2008

- I got Mamona 0.1 and it boots up!!! But… How can access the terminal?
- You can’t, there is no terminal..
- Bad.. but why?
- There is no virtual keyboard.
- And how can I play with Mamona?
- USB serial, USB net, …
Yeah, as you can see, we actually were providing a way to use Mamona on […]

Sometimes the compiler cannot save you…
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

When I was trying to understand why the matchbox-keyboard always presents window decoration under E (it doesn’t do it under Gnome and KDE), I found this code and noticed a strange thing…
if (!cfdata->border->remember)
cfdata->border->remember = e_remember_new();
{
if (cfdata->border->remember)
e_remember_use(cfdata->border->remember);
}
(e17/apps/e/src/modules/conf_borders/e_int_config_borders.c function _basic_apply_border)
The second […]

Mamona/OE merge
Thursday, April 10th, 2008

We invited mickey (Michael Lauer) from OpenMoko to present about OpenEmbedded project at OpenBossa conference. Thanks for the nice presentation!
After the conference, mickey came to INdT to take a look in Mamona patches to OE (mainly EFL and Pyhton-EFL). We worked two days together to merge all stuff. All differences were merged and Vivi and […]

Mamona migrated from MTN to GIT
Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Yeah… After some months using monotone repository, Mamona team decided to migrate to git. Reasons?

Performance: Some things that you can do while mtn works..

‘mtn status’: you can check irc messages
‘mtn update’: take some coffee
‘mtn pull’: make the coffee

Monotone ‘propagate’ issues: If your branch starts to become very different from the main branch, get prepared, […]