Many recent devices can be updated “in the field” with firmware or microcode updates, including such as CPUs, GPUs, wireless devices, USB devices, and others. Indeed, some USB devices are dumb and unprogrammed and go through a boot-up sequence whereby their firmware must be squirted to them over the USB to get them to do . . . → Read More: Microcode updates for CPUs and other devices
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Comments and links for upgrading udev on Gentoo to beware of for the newly introduced scheme for naming network interfaces are given in this comment. That follows on from the talk given for a slightly unexpectedly messy udev update! Hope of help… Martin That is just too good a title not to enthuse about! Even though this is ‘just’ a little incremental tidbit of spacefaring news, the previously unnoticed and no-fanfare note by the Linux Foundation for giving training to United Space Alliance seems to have suddenly hit the big headlines. Enjoy: The Register: Penguins in spa-a-a-ce! ISS . . . → Read More: Penguins in spa-a-a-ce! For those of us adventurous enough to upgrade to the Gentoo kernel 3.7.9 using their own custom kernel config… As was the case for upgrading to the Gentoo kernel 3.6.11, beware that the config spec for the video modules and webcam modules including the USB UVC/video and V4L have changed in the config hierarchy and . . . → Read More: Gentoo kernel 3.7.9 webcams, V4L, UVC, video: kernel config In true expeditionary style, a small grouping of us ventured out into the cold wilds around the corner to Stoney Street to find… An Aurora that is actually under The Warehouse, Plumptre Street. (The street is most likely named after a successful merchant and politician John de Plumptre who founded the Plumptre hospital nearby.) Down . . . → Read More: A Splendid Aurora |
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