Updates for the sake of future customer security

It's the most beautiful day in Kobe, very warm and pleasant and I'm indoors writing this blog. There must be something wrong with the world.

Today there was an update on the Parallella Blog. They've managed to run Ubuntu on the test-run version of the board. Mr Olofsson tells us to keep checking the site in the next week or two because there will be SIGNIFICANT updates. Excited!

I've been checking on their site for like six months now. And the forum. Especially the forum. Today's interesting bit was about wiring the HDMI transceiver to the Xilinx chip. Some of the readers pointed out a possible problem with the current wiring and Mr Olofsson himself reacted and the problem was explained to him in detail. This little interaction could make parallella even better and more efficient. Oh the miracles of open source. Why did it take so long for us to get here?

I don't follow too many blogs (the designers do) but I do check whats going on with Haiku-OS, parallella and the couchDB world a lot. It's quite interesting how much anticipation builds when you follow somebody doing something interesting, you feel like a little boy again, bicycling thru the frozen wastes of northern Finland only to check if R-kioski has the latest issue of Your Sinclair. Except you sort of don't have to do that anymore and everybody's getting fat. But that's a side point really. Plus we're making a game that helps you to not get fat. ahem.

So here are some updates from this week at Camp Hastur. Dr Lukasz indeed whipped up a nice pre-pre-alpha of our super secret project (handset edition). I walked around a lot, playtesting. Immediate health effects right from the start, I got a flu and was down for three days. Don't let this happen to you kids. But that too is a side point.

So we tested and debugged, version after another and now things are pretty good even with a shaky & wobbly Samsung Galaxy mark 1 with no network. This week the pre-pre-alpha will be more or less finished for our purposes and the work shifts to bombing geoCouch with interesting queries and conjuring up sexy views to lure in investment. Interesting stuff, well worth keeping us bookmarked ladies and gentlemen.

There's nothing yet I can say is SIGNIFICANT (at least any of the stuff I can reveal here, it is a super secret project after all) but it's not that insignificant either. All these little jittery movements inside the mass of Osuuskunta Hastur contribute to the thing SIGNIFICANT later on.

So basically you can all go home now and ignore us for a few weeks at least. Or read the Parallella Blog. Or check out what LLamasoft is up to. There's a whole wide world outside Hastur I tell you.

Darn. Gotta take another look at the parallella forums. Can't wait. =)