arm-netbook March 2018

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Laptop LCD Touch Pad: Display KB Layout Idea
by Alexander Ross 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

On the laptops lcd touch pad. Here’s a idea for a feature. When leaning new keyboard layout. Say dovrak for example. The trouble is learning where the new keys are. For me at least, one could do with a constant reminder. What if the lcd touch pad displayed the current pressed keys? Maybe on a image of the keyboard, meaning some way of representing where the key you pressed is relative to other keys. So if its the wrong one you can see where the right one is. This info is only displayed while the keyboard is in use. When the touch pad is in use it switches to a relevant display for touch pad use. As for when the user is using not the touch pad nor the keyboard? What then? display keymap? If playing video display: video controls, time left, is internet speed fast enough for this stream? etc.

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Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos
by John Luke Gibson 22 Sep '18

22 Sep '18

I would highly recommend avoiding any logos, without proper historical reference. One of the problems with traditional Linux icons, are that they are very un-iconic. It's better to be textually based, in my opinion, than to use disorienting imagery. At this point, most of the clay has already set so referencing/alluding-to other gnu projects [such as blender] wouldn't be detrimental, however ascii has a very richer history of use by "hacktivists". Referencing some historically relevant (to "hacktivism") ascii iconography either overtly or subtly, kindof more or less as a hat tip to communities which support said historical events will cause the logo a greater likelihood of being regarded as iconic. I wish I had specific examples, but possibly using cloister black font would be a subtle hat tip to anonymous for some individuals use of various letters in that font as copy-cat of L from Death Note. Another thing of note, would be that we need to be careful who we tip our hats to, to be careful of who in the future people might assume us to endorse. A font is innocuous enough, that it can be adapted later due to circumstance (should a need arise to disassociate) without damaging the recognize-ability of any logo. The universal and modular style of blender, is a good point to mimic. A solid dot in the center of the "O" would probably be a subtle enough correlation to the blender logo. This is the pattern of thinking we need in developing logos and "slogans". Thinking about what sounds catchy only correlates us with random corporate culture. We don't need to be entirely original as we have a history to fall back on. However originality might also help distinguish us from our predecessors, the last thing we want is to fail to distinguish ourselves from your neighborhood corporation. I would recommend Luke to contact Wenqing Yang a.k.a. "Yummei", using the notability of the project to attract their attention. I would like to point out that despite being a cultural figure (famous artist) in the hacktivist community they previously lauched a multi-million dollar successful indiegogo which caused them much heart ache (per their blog) over legal controversy with so-called partners and their personal admonishment that they failed to do enough. >From: Alexander Ross <maillist_arm-netbook(a)aross.me> >To: Linux on small ARM machines <arm-netbook(a)lists.phcomp.co.uk> >Cc: >Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:07:15 +0000 >Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos >this all these efforts, got me to have a play around too. :) > > i was started having a go at one idea of letters inserting into each > other kinda like a module. > > I had put E and O in side the M. it then kinda looked like/spelled Meoo > like a cat. > So what about a darn cat logo? maybe a cat playing with a eoma68 card in > its paws? > > sry for the yet another internet cat image type of suggestion, never > thought id be making one heh.

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Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos
by John Luke Gibson 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

> The idea about a dot in the "O" of EOMA made me think of fonts where the > dot is in the 0 (zero) to distinguish it from O (capital letter O) As we > all are somehow computer related I would find such a design confusing. If it was really to be in honor of the modularity and progress of blender, one would want to make the "O" not really in any particular font, but to look exactly the shape blender logo, except without the flay or the color scheme: a perfect solid-color circle within another perfect circle. It wouldn't theoretically be confusing because the mark you are thinking of is a hollow circle in an oval. Letter-o'es and zeroes can only sometimes be confusing because in some fonts they are both written as vertical ovals, not just the zero. I'm not sure on the required dimensions of a certification mark, however, the solid-shape flag-esque convention I've noticed among popular one's, often seems to detract from the continuity of the design on the objects that bear them, making them seem particularly foreign and like they don't belong. The vaporwave-esque color palate which most of them choose only add to this affect, as if they themselves are trying to distance themselves on some subconscious level from their endorsements. As a side effect to this, it makes them harder to trust. Any symbolism of any significant body, displays historical awareness.. It's what tells people whether they can trust it, before reading or attempting to judge it. Therein lies the axiom, there is no such thing as an original thought, so, if by means of arbitrary work dedicated to make more concise and thoroughly plastered an announcement of what historical or cultural event may have inspired such thoughts and such work, people will then engage in the arbitrarily difficult work of judging whether the project is sincere or not. In other words, if we don't display more than necessary effort in our symbol that can be recognized with several magnitudes less effort than it took to generate, then no highly-self-valuing person will have any sane reason to take us seriously, because if they took every slightly promising project, which failed to create a Sybil-certificate reputation in this manner, then they would never find a single valuable project in their lifetime (obviously this is an exaggeration).

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Allwinner VPU kernel driver crowdfunding campaign
by Forest Crossman 29 May '18

29 May '18

I'm suprised this hasn't been posted here yet, considering its relevance to this project: https://bootlin.com/blog/allwinner-vpu-crowdfunding/ The engineers at Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) are running a crowdfunding campaign to complete the upstream kernel support for the CedarX Video Processing Unit (Allwinner hardware video decoder/encoder). If you're not familiar with Bootlin, they're the ones responsible for a lot of the other mainlining work that's already been done for Alwinner SoCs, so they have experience getting patches integrated upstream and with kernel development in general. They've already reached their funding goal--which includes support for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 part 2/H.263, and MPEG-4 part 10/H.264/AVC decoding on the A20 SoC--but they have a few stretch goals that include support for newer Allwinner SoCs, HEVC/H.265 decoding, and H.264 encoding. Anyways, if any of you want to help fund the development of Free Software, this looks like a pretty good opportunity to do so! For more information, see the Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bootlin/allwinner-vpu-support-in-the-o…

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OT: China 12 LED RGBW Par Firmware?
by Alexander Ross 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

off topic, idk where else to ask. Photos and additional info about these 12 led rgbw par lights: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/d4c27f80d4c40135bebf0242ac110007 By chance would anyone know where firmware for these cheap china led pars might be? cus i have a few but they all have different firmware. i have 2 versions of the IR remote edition and a non-remote one. I might just get a few more of just single/same edition and be done with it but if i could flash them all with the same firmware that would be great! quite brilliant these little things. floss firmware would make huge potential :). Hoping someone in china might have a clue. I guess the firmware is proprietary or unknown dev but ever hopeful me is :).

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Turris MOX - made from modules with a fast universal connection between them (PCI-E 1x, USB 2.0, 2.5Gbit ethernet)
by dumblob 31 Mar '18

31 Mar '18

Hi, yesterday I stumbled upon Turris MOX, a modular computer. It seems to be an interesting endeavor which might be easily extended with a graphic card module or any card module you could think of. The connection between modules is a standard PCIe connector (but no the PCIe pinout!) with pins of PCIe 1x, USB 2.0, and 2.5 Gbit ethernet. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turris-mox-modular-open-source-router-wi… Enjoy! -- Jan P.S. Disclaimer: I once met some of the authors in person.

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Urgent statement on Cryptocurrency ethics
by Jean Flamelle 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

This is difficult to express so please bear patience. Able manipulators of money do exploit the interest in cryptocurrency to affect the prices thereof, purchase and sell cryptocurrency increasing their stockpile of national and international currencies while sustaining their supply of cryptocurrency. The practice of buying low and selling high, is generally accepted, but I refute it. Not only does no way of proving if they manipulated the price practical, but buying low and selling high can only be possible if someone somewhere tries to change the price of whatever their trade includes. This means the price of bitcoin should be decided by netizens across internet forums and some powerful actor is ensuring that can't happen. As a store of economic influence, I fully agree and support the decision to hold donated bitcoin. However to convert it by means of trade into any other currency, while what is happening is happening, I can't stomach this morally. Individuals who are getting tricked into purchasing cryptocurrency at exactly the wrong moments are losing all the have. This is not simply gambling with high-stakes, there is a concerted effort to deceive people into purchasing bitcoin and other currencies. If anyone sells cryptocurrency now, they very likely risk funding these scams. Please do not sell donated bitcoin or any other donated cryptocurrency for the foresee-able future. This is not a permanent problem, but one we can't know when will be resolved. Thank you. -J. L.

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Well, this is interesting...
by Christopher Havel 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Neither ARM nor netbook, strictly speaking, but we've veered off topic before, so gee why not... https://hackaday.com/2018/03/12/new-guts-make-old-thinkpads-new/ Looks vaguely relevant. Chris

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Fwd: Earth-friendly EOMA68 Computing Devices Update: FOSDEM Recap, RISC-V Update, and Certification Marks
by mike.valk＠gmail.com 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

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Testing: GPIO
by Richard Wilbur 04 Mar '18

04 Mar '18

After looking at the schematics for the DS113 v2.7 2017-02-17 and the microdesktop v1.7 I feel the need to ask whether there are more up-to-date schematics available? Results of my sleuthing thus far attached.

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