Archive for the 'linux' Category
Yesterday Hung, Jayen & I started work on UNSW’s code base for the 2010 Robocup competition, and ended up with something quite neat that we didn’t have before. The Nao runs a piece of software from Aldebaran called ‘NaoQi’, which provides an abstraction layer over the Robot’s hardware, and also some sort of inter-process communication [...]
Jayen and I put this article together this morning for ‘Beta’. CSESoc’s weekly student newsletter.
Jeff Arnold, creator of Ksplice, presented a talk this year at linux.conf.au, the annual Australasian Linux conference, about his product, the first practical technology for updating the Linux kernel without rebooting.
Jeff Arnold wrote most of Ksplice as part of his [...]
After 3 months of not booting into OS X I decided to reclaim the 60GB of space it was hoarding, as I’d run out of room in /home. After hearing some horror stories about attempting to single-boot linux on a Macbook Pro I was prepared for the worst, but as it turned out, things worked [...]
This was meant to be a post about how wonderful it’s been using Ubuntu 8.10 on my MacBook Pro for the last 2 days, but alas I haven’t even been able to attempt the install due to the Mac’s inability to resize it’s partition properly.
It’s a 120G drive, Mac HD presently filling the entire volume, [...]
16 days to go until we hit Ubuntu 8.10, can’t wait!
First order of business, get XBMC up and running.
Suddenly inspired to post, since I noticed somebody actually reading my blog, I thought I’d share how I learnt to install/configure/use linux for day-to-day development work when I was in high school. Although this post is probably completely irrelevant to the person I caught reading my blog… oh well.
from linux import distros
from random import randint
parts [...]
