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This blog organizes tech-related findings on the topics of hardware and software engineering, embedded systems design, Linux, reconfigurable computing, web 2.0, entrepreneurship and life hacks.

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

The world's first open source 32-bit RISC processor on ASIC

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The world's first open source 32-bit RISC processor on ASIC supporting Linux (OpenRISC) | No royalties http://orsoc.se/openrisc1200-pla...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

TED Talk: David S. Rose on Pitching to VCs

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http://www.ted.com/talks/david_s_rose_on_pitching_to_vcs.html What is the single most important thing VC looking for when you are pitching...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

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Futurist Ray Kurzweil that made a number of accurate predictions about future says "We are only 8 doublings away from it [solar enegery...

Fixing dashed line bug when pasting Visio objects into Word

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To avoid dashed lines converting to solid when pasting Visio 2003/2007 objects into Word for example, follow this registry workaround: http:...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Removing the annoying default "Final showing markup" behavior in Word 2007

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Are you annoyed by the automatically enabled review comments when you open a Word document? Apparently it is a security feature to make sure...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Effortless access to iPhone 3GS’ files without hacking in the new Ubuntu 10.04

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Effortless access to iPhone 3GS’ files without hacking in the new Ubuntu 10.04. Versions affected: At least iPhone OS 3.1.2, 3.1.3. Ubun...

Round 2.5 & 3 companies announced at NVBC competition

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Round 2.5 & 3 companies announced at NVBC competition in Vancouver. There are 43 startups in total. Many of them are Tech | http://tinyu...

Cloud is nonsense, Telcos still stink...

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Raging blogger writing about the cloud, R&D of buzzwords and bad customer service . I would add that even though I am happy with the qua...
Saturday, May 08, 2010

How to Backup & Restore the Configuration of your Ubuntu Panel

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Useful trick posted by Ubuntu Genius: How to Backup & Restore the Configuration of your Ubuntu Panel
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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Commanding robots by looking at them and waving | SFU Autonomy lab | http://youtu.be/Vv-rYx73Uqs
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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Adding Google Buzz to your Firefox sidebar | Reading messages without leaving browser window | http://tinyurl.com/yf7pjsm

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Removing passcode on iPhone without restoring using iTunes is quite easy. This thread has step-by-step instructions on how to do this: http:...
Monday, February 22, 2010

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Easy Canon cameras hack that allows time-lapse photography and many more features | http://tiny.cc/SE1Vn | demo: http://ping.fm/id5fd
Saturday, February 20, 2010

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It's been a while since I've posted here. Recently I discovered a number of tools that publish across multiple websites from one loc...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

Setting up NFS share on Ubuntu

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This post summarizes steps I've done to setup a NFS share on Ubuntu 8.10 VM host and mount it on an another Linux machine (Debian Linux ...

Adding a root user without root access (Ubuntu)

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If you are trying to run a root command and your username is not in the sudo list (i.e. getting a message like " is not in sudoers fil...

Password Reset in Linux (Ubuntu Recovery Mode)

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Here is another password recovery post that I previously used for dual boot system with Grub: http://cybercamping.blogspot.com/2007/04/easy-...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Installing Ubuntu in VMWare

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Ubuntu version: 8.10 VMWare Workstation 6 Download Ubuntu from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download/ Burn ISO image (i.e. using free ope...

Installing CVS under Ubuntu 8.10

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My experience installing CVS server on Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop CVS version: 1.12.13 CVSD version: 1.0.15 Quick reference: ######################...
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Inexpensive Civilian Space Flights are Around the Corner

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With the alignment of recent political and commercial interests, the near orbital space flights will significantly go down in price in the n...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Interfacing FPGA to microcontrollers

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An article going over high-level details of interfacing a microcontroller and FPGA: read here [PLDesignLine]
Sunday, June 08, 2008

Air Cars

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Clive Maxfield (PLDesign Line) made a post in April about air-powered cars working on compressed air. Will they be able to compete with the ...
Monday, May 19, 2008

2nd Gen iPhone

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2nd Gen iPhone as early as this summer? Read the possible set of specs on engadget
Sunday, May 11, 2008

Partitioning tools

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Keywords: restore MBR grub error 22 partition tools Restoring mbr: http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t405091.html 1. Run fix...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

FPGA-based hardware acceleration of C/C++ apps

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Free IP licensing services

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Creativecommons.com Share your work with the rest of the world - free IP licensing service
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Harward's Student Database Hacked

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Harward's student database has been hacked and the backup of the whole database structure has been posted online via BitTorrent . The m...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Virtex 57 FPGAs break the PetaByte Clocking Barrier

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In other words, it's April Fool's Day: Reach NEW Heights with Xilinx Virtex 57
Monday, March 31, 2008

Miuro - a multimedia droid

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Miuro - a multimedia system equipped with camera and sensors that follows one around the house. Equipped with Wifi, it can play intern...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

Google's Lost Spectrum Bid and Future Plans, White Spaces

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AT&T and Verizon won parts of 700 MHz spectrum bid that ranged around $4.6 billion [ Wi-fiplanet.com ]. Even though Google was one of th...

VoIP reviews, news, tutorials

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I've been browsing Wi-Fi Plant website and came across the following interesting pages related to VoIP. [ List of VoIP articles ] [ Sky...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

Robotics and DIY Projects

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1. Robotics projects from EDN: Robotics Project (sound sensing, hardware, soft) Platforms and development tools CoroBot - fast robot prototy...
Monday, March 17, 2008

A few DIY project ideas

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An idea, DIY rool-up keyboard: http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/diy-project-create-your-own-roll-up-keyboard/ Installing a small camera into ...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

Windows Memory Optimization

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The following two articles explain how to optimize Page File in Windows and how to use Task Manager to detect Page File usage . links: Page...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Bug Labs: "Legos meets Web services & APIs"

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"Startup Bug Labs, which aims to turn the task of constructing smart devices into a non-technical, lego-like affair, will begin accepti...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

99-cent FPGAs from Actel

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Actel announced two new low-density FGPAs: IGLOO and ProASIC3 starting at only 99-cents! The target markets are communicatinos, consumer, me...
Sunday, February 03, 2008

UWB News

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- August 13, 2007: UK is the first EU state to deregulate indoor use of UWB technology [ vnunet ] - US and Japan (deregulated at the end of ...
Friday, February 01, 2008

The Aging Brain: How to age successfully

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Here are a few advices that I've heard at one of UBC's open lectures "The Aging Brain: How to age successfully." Here is t...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Using FPGAs for HDTV design

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Tam Do's article from Altera on EDN. Read here .
Monday, January 21, 2008

Adding a Mic jack to iTouch phone - use with VoIP!

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I just got a 16Gig iTouch as a gift and almost immediately went to search for hardware hacks for it. To my pleasant surprise, iTouch has a m...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Entrepreneurship Articles, News

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Startup from PhD thesis (Farid Mobasser, Ottawa U., 2006 winner (one of two) of Atherton Entrepreneurship Award) Places to get funding: Spo...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Reconfigurable ECAs - new platform for SDR?

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Article by Chen Zhang, Virginia Tech. Chen implemented a simple ZigBee using an ECA (Element CXI's Elemental Computing Array). ECAs prov...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Exo-flud or the Expanding Internet

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4988qaCvvM
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Ruby On Rails REST Resources

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An interesting read, good for beginners as well: http://www.rubyrailways.com/great-ruby-on-rails-rest-resources/

The Top 10 Ruby On Rails Blogs

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http://www.rubyrailways.com/the-top-10-rubyrails-blogs/
Sunday, November 18, 2007

Integrated Circuit Patents (copyright issues)

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As lots of other inventions in the world, many are not eligible for patents. Patentable things must be useful, novel and unobvious. Same app...

Ralph Baer - the inventor of console games

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.. is an American inventor who was designed, implemented, and most importantly, patented, the modularized circuit board that was sold to Mag...

SarbOx Agreement

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Recently, at my workplace I had to sign the SarbOx conduct agreement. After numerous scandals with large corporations in the last decade, co...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

Live Coverage of gPhone Mobile OS

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As posted on www.Engadget.com

Working at Google before and after IPO

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Blogoscoped 's post talks about experience of working at Google before IPO and after. Read here .
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