GTK performance on PXA270 vs. OMAP3
Several of my customers have built applications using the GTK+ tookit. While GTK+ works fairly well for what we have done, I have been wondering… Read More »GTK performance on PXA270 vs. OMAP3
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Fix for PXA270 MMC/SD Controller Write Corruption
During system verification for a customer, we noticed occasional failures when writing to a SD card using the Marvell PXA270 MMC/SD controller. The failure is… Read More »Fix for PXA270 MMC/SD Controller Write Corruption
Installing Ubuntu on a Core i7 DX58SO motherboard
UPDATE: 2009-03-17 — It appears that hard drive issues I encountered are likely due to the HW RAID formatting on the drive I tried. I… Read More »Installing Ubuntu on a Core i7 DX58SO motherboard
Switching to WordPress
After using Joomla for several years, I’m switching my web site to wordpress. As I mostly use my site for writing technical articles, it makes… Read More »Switching to WordPress
How to implement an interrupt driven GPIO input in Linux
With Linux, some of the things that seem like they should be easy are not — at least at first glance. For example, how do… Read More »How to implement an interrupt driven GPIO input in Linux
Using the Vala Programming Language in Embedded Systems
Recently I’ve been following the Vala programming language and using it some in embedded systems. Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring… Read More »Using the Vala Programming Language in Embedded Systems
Mono 2.2 RC1 added to Openembedded
I recently added Mono 2.2 RC1 to OpenEmbedded. The last usable version of Mono in Openembedded was 1.2.6, so this is a big step up. … Read More »Mono 2.2 RC1 added to Openembedded
How to evaluate VoIP providers with Asterisk
There are many options when selecting a VoIP provider to terminate your Asterisk PBX. One of the most important factors in this selection is the… Read More »How to evaluate VoIP providers with Asterisk
Implenting QoS for VOIP in a Linksys router
In our quest to implement an Asterisk PBX in our office, we are evaluating several VOIP (Voice Over IP) providers. VOIP provides several benefits over… Read More »Implenting QoS for VOIP in a Linksys router
Implementing Asterisk
Over the past month, we have been working on implementing Asterisk in our office. Asterisk (http://www.asterisk.org/ ) is a complete software PBX (Private Branch Exchange)… Read More »Implementing Asterisk