Dumb Idea of the Day

You heard it hear first! The Google Android operating system will crush iPhone's market share!

With the economy in shambles, venture capital is vanished into thin air. All I can say is Oh, Yeah!!! This creates a perfect opportunity for entrepreneurial geeks.

For a few bucks, I can buy a camera that attaches to my computer. I'm tempted to buy a slightly more expensive one that could attach to my mailbox and watch traffic going past my house. I'd use the video to help the police catch any criminals who enter our neighborhood and commit crimes.

I've got a rare eye problem, which may or may not be AVMD. Since I found no posts from patients with this problem, I'm posting one.

Most programmers remain blissfully unaware of the new speed bottleneck. L2 cache miss penalties now run anywhere from 100 to 300 CPU cycles. Even a 2% L2 cache miss rate can easily dominate runtime.

I would like to find two or three guys at UNC, Duke, or NC State, to start one or two practice startups over the summer. I'd organize and
run it, putting in about 4 hours/week, while the students would be free to put in as much or as little time as they desire. There are plenty of good ideas for startups. The hard part is finding good teams. Do you know anyone who might be the right kind of geek/student for this sort of startup training?

The first idea I'd throw out is building an ultra-high performance processor for executing high-end EDA applications faster than is
possible on traditional Windows/Intel machines. These would be based on Xilinx FPGAs for computation, and would win on speed through high performance parallel SRAM banks and L3 caches. The main technology breakthrough would be a new C compiler that can optimize memory access for large sets of data across several external memory banks and caches, avoiding the the traditional Von Neumann bottleneck. Benchmarks I've done at sf.net/projects/datadraw show cache performance now dominates runtime for a wide class of EDA applications.

Feel free to pass this around, or post it. If anyone wants to e-mail me, to be sure to get through my aggressive spam-filter, please put
'startup' somewhere in the subject.

I learned as a child that "the worst word in the world" is nigger. I've never used it, other than here. I'm a strong supporter of the civil rights movement, and am easily offended when I hear others putting down black people. However, while not "racist" according the Webster's Dictionary, I contribute to the plight of blacks throughout the country passively.

The data is damning. Let's keep a spot light on this issue for a while, just to be sure we aren't being hoodwinked. Also, this may be the second time the NH election has been stolen by compromised electronic voting machines.

Junk Science author Steven Milloy has done more to harm us than any man since Mr. Thomas Midgley Jr., who invented leaded gasoline, Freon, and Chlorofluorocarbons. How much better would we be had they never been born...

I've cross-compiled gdbserver for Android. This allows gdb to be used to debug native C applications on the emulator. If you want to debug your native C application, follow these steps:

The Andriod kernel can be debugged in gdb just like other kernels run in qemu. The steps I took were:

At one point, I wanted to debug code inside libc, so compiled my own version of the Code Sourcery tool chain. If you need to compile the tool chain for Android, follow these instructions.

Wow... Fox news gets the scoop for a change! Kudos to Fox News for publishing an insightful message from our military. While you're at it, you might also read this gem