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I guess x264 will need to spend 4+ hours. Sending them over to your laptop will be faster. TI also has a set of optimised codecs available for download. That should be faster: http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/omap35xcodecs.html...

Well, even poppler (evince and okular's backend) can be very slow, when rendering PDF's with patterns in them... https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13518 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99486

AFAIK, there are 5 different voltage-levels, OPP1-5, and for each voltage-level, TI has specified a clock-speed at which the chip is guaranteed to be stable. OPP5 is not meant to be used permanently, and does (slightly) lower the chip's life-expectancy if used for prolonged periods of time. At...

I remember some discussion a long time ago about someone doing it the same way on the early resistive android-phones, and if that could be ported to the Pandora. Conclusion was that it was a buggy and unreliable way of doing things...

Sites started using flash-video as it was the most reliable way to get video in the browser. For the same reason, they will start using html5-video once that works reliably. Too bad firefox's developers are being dicks and have implemented the entire video-decoder in the browser... No external...

Well, both resistive and capacitive come in a very wide variety of qualities, all the way from rock-bottom worthless to almost perfect. Resistive uses 2 separated conductive sheets sitting on top of each other. The easier it is to press the two together, and the more flexible/bendable the...

from http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/devices_v2.asp?family_id=701 : It's "simply" a very sensitive, high-res, and fast capacitive touch-sensor. Sensitive enough to detect conductive styluses (anything with metal in its tip?), fingernails, and fingers in a thick glove (they do that in the...

Faster as in chip-speed, or as in production speed? In principle, officially, the chips are going to be the same. The OMAP's still being sold as 600Mhz. However, AFAIK, batch-1's chips were bought (and delivered) ~1½ year ago, with all of the usual improvements in chip-processing, so I do...

600 companies buying .1% of the stock is enough...

Yeah right. ARM is at the basis of so many stuff, with it being important for >half the industry, that nobody's going to let Apple eat it up. At the very least, the bigger companies can buy so many ARM-stock that Apple can't take it over anymore... Anyways, even if Apple manages to buy ARM...

Just tried them on Arora, the browser that's currently Pandora's default. They work mostly fine, but when moving to the right in legend of sadness and packman, the sprites were missing... Also, I think they might be a bit too heavy for the Pandora...

My guess is that Nintendo chose this kind of design (Nintendo-provided ARM7-binary that stays relatively constant across a large number of games) to be able to get rid of that ARM7-core entirely in some DS-successor. Also, N has full access to that code, and roms are packaged in a format that...

One minute we're talking about wifi-speeds, the next about the meaning of the term "OS". Oh well... On unix- and unix-likes, like linux, bsd, aix, solaris etc., the term "OS" can't be given a proper meaning, as the platform is entirely modular. Most of the important parts in it have several...

Just to make people jealous: Also look at that ping... University Campus. Campuswide ethernet(fiber backbone, 100mbit from the switches), 2x10Gbit to ams-ix (a ring connecting most large educational institutions in NL). Costs me €10,-/month. No download-limit, but I do have an UPLOAD-limit of...

350KB/s, as in 350kilobyte/s, as in ~3megabit/s? Sounds fine to me. That's fast enough for pretty much everything, except for high-quality high-def video-streaming. BTW: what's the theoretical maximum possible for the Pandora to achieve?

If I'm not mistaken, the Pandora has also already been run at 1Ghz. It's just that not all chips stably reach those speeds, and even if they do, power consumption shoots up heavily.

Eeehm, what I understood happened to the e1000 was far more stupid: That linux-kernel introduced function-tracing that could be turned on and off online. This worked by compiling a no-op placeholder into every function. This would then be overwritten in memory by the tracing-code. Something...

There IS a decent filesystem that's supported on all major os's: UDF.

Samba is the open-source-implementation of windows' network-shares (protocol was called smb, now cifs). Works fine, but the protocol suffers from high overhead. ftp is faster. If they can get the wifi-driver up to speed, you won't notice much of a speed-difference compared to usb, as the...

Digitus' product page It's a bit difficult to get 150mbs over full-speed :) But there's another bigger problem: drivers. The drivers for the chip in there (a realtek rtl8192SU) have entered linux's staging-area only in 2.6.33, and it seems that the drivers on digitus' site use the old...