One of the most annoying things about OS X, is its continual insistence of leaving ‘rat droppings’ all over my drives.(Apple they are MINE not yours)
Yes, I’m talking about the ‘.DS_store’, ‘.Spotlight-V100′, ‘.Trashes’,’._.Trashes’, ‘.fseventsd’ and christ knows what other crap Apple insists in writing to my drives.
I am well aware the role such files play, but they also play havoc with development for embedded devices.
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Well, It has taken some time to get the issues related to the USB port fixed, it seems it was a dual issue of broken USB socket AND a flakey inter board connector, if you remember back to the A8, this was also an issue.
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If you are interested in supporting a good cause for a public domain CPU design, then pop over to OpenCores and make a small donation (Say a Dollar)
It is for a good cause.
Ok so we have the brand new Utopia G10 from Hiapad
We had actually started to take a look at the device, but we seem to have a couple of issues related to the USB & HDMI connections.
We also have photos of partial disassembly, that was until we dropped the digital camera.
Luckily, we have been able to recover a couple of the photos, unfortunately it is going to require a new photo session to get a clear breakdown of the full device.
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A registered charity over in the UK is looking to get into the computing industry in a small way:
We have access to the new Utopia iMX515 pad computer currently called A10
Key features:
We will of course be stripping this baby down and taking a look at any additional expansion possibilities.
I guess after this week ,many people are finally realizing that there is a reason that Apple lock down the platform.
Yes I’m speaking about the mass breakout of Android viruses via the Android Market.
You can find more here:Android viral swam
and here: Google withdraws more than 50 virus-infected apps from Android Market.
From a personal point of view, I have to say I am rather disappointed in Google over this situation, specifically because it is possible to have java secure the apps and provide a validity checksum per class.
So it would be very easy for any ‘hacked’ application to be detected, since the majority of the classes would have the same checksum as the valid application.
All it would require is for Google to kick off an internal alarm when say >99% of the checksums of a new application matched an existing application.
