I’ve been a supporter of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project since I first heard of it. When they announced the Buy 1 Give 1 program in November, I signed up on the first day. I did it both to support the program and to satisfy my own curiosity. I think the laptop is [...]
andrew carter
coding in the rain
Open Source
OSCON 2007 Wrapup
Although it is a few days late, I thought I would post something about the last two days at OSCON to wrap it up.Thursday was a big improvement from Wednesday. The talks were more in sync with what I was interested in. The keynote was good. Bill Hilff from Microsoft’s Open Source Lab talked [...]
OSCON Day 1
Today was the first day of OSCON for me. The keynote was good. Seems like the emphasis is on parallelism this year. Interesting how a theme seems to emerge each conference (and I don’t think it is intentional).Intel’s Threading Building Blocks looks like a great project. I hadn’t seen anything about it until today. I [...]
To OSCON 2007
I’m packing and getting prepared to go to Portland for OSCON 2007. This is probably my favorite conference I regularly attend. Unlike the big corporate sponsored events like Microsoft’s PDC or Apple’s WWDC, I never feel like I am having stuff shoved down my throat. I like that I can walk out a talk and [...]
Linux, Graphics Cards, and 3D
I’m down to a really small number of computers for me. At various times in the past, I’ve had as many as 10 computers between work and home that I actively used. Currently, I only have two - my MacBook Pro and a Dell PowerEdge 400SC server I converted into a workstation. My primary workstation [...]