BradFuller

I have to hand it to Peter, he has again pulled out a couple of fun videos on auto-tuning. Please visit his website to hear more and read the discussion. I embed one of the videos here, but be sure and visit his site: Create Digital Music

Wouldn’t it be fun if all news was like this. Less war?

“10 Things” has 10 Tips for Proper Computer Disposal. My advice: don’t take tip #3 lightly.  You can destroy your hard disk drive yourself, and the result is probably just fine (I use a hammer.) But if you really want the drive completely destroyed – so data cannot be retrieved even from drive fragments – take it to a company you trust. They must have the proper shredders that eat metal. There will be nothing left but bits (metal bits, that is.)

The idea of the FLEX Machine and a visit to Seymour Papert in the late 60’s encouraged Alan Kay to create “A Personal Computer For Children Of All Ages.”  I don’t know how the name “Dynabook” came about, but it described an electronic book that could dynamically change. As the introduction says, the name was also about “the relationship of people to computers will itself also change.”

Come see Alan speak about the ideas of the Dynabook at the “40th Anniversary of the Dynabook“, on Nov 5th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

I’ll be there!

Panelists:
- Alan Kay
- Charles Thacker
- Mary Lou Jepsen

alan kay, computer history museum, dynabook, personal computer, smalltalk, squeak

ARM announced at their developer’s conference a collaboration called the Linux Mobile Platform to enable development of portable computing devices for browsing, multimedia, wire/wireless Ethernet connectivity and better battery life. Since one of the six partners is Mozilla, focus on the Firefox web browser is a given. The integration of GStreamer for the multimedia framework is targeted for multimedia. But, since the platform is Linux and is open, anything is game.

This is great news for me because it provides the world another potentially capable hardware platform to support Squeak mobile computing. It may also provide the computing power for the software being developed at Viewpoints Research in their quest to create a new personal computing model.

If ARM and partners follow through, with the Viewpoints’ new software paradigm the journey to a truly portable Dynabook may be measurably closer.

The six partners are: Marvell, MontaVista, Mozilla, Movial, Samsung, Texas Instruments

Other Links:

• Squeak already runs on Linux, RiscOS and many other platforms: Download Squeak here
• ARM-Linux Developer Wiki
• Connected Mobile Computing at ARM
• TI and MontaVista pair up on Linux mobile computing

ARM, CMC, connected mobile device, dynabook, linux, linux mobile platform, mobile computing, personal computing, squeak, viewpoints research

You’ve heard me complain that Silverlight doesn’t get along (at all!) with Linux. Seems that may change. Sean Alexander mentions that Novell is creating a Silverlight implementation as a part of the Mono project.