Bleeding Edge

Disable GUI on the BeagleBone Black

I've been using the BeagleBone Black [http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black] as a headless web application server. For this purpose I don't want X Windows or GDM slowing the boot process and taking up precious resources. I looked around for ways to disable

Editorial

Opera Mini on the iPhone, for now

So, today(2010-04-13) it was announced [http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/04/13/] that Opera Mini for the iPhone had been accepted by Apple and indeed it was revealed in the Appstore [http://itunes.apple.com/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id363729560?mt=8] within

Technology

Sharing Media Outside Your User Profile on Windows 7 Media Player 12

Windows 7 has taken Vista's media sharing and streaming capabilities and really put the shine on them, take a look at this post [http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/12/media-streaming-with-windows-7.aspx] for some great in-depth coverage. Reading about these new features

Technology

Qualcomm Gobi WWAN Card on Windows 7

The latest 64-bit version of most vendor's drivers now work fine without following these instructions or using GobiLoader. I updated my Thinkpad to Win7 Retail x64 using Lenovo System Update to install all the drivers and now my Gobi card works great even