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VIA Technologies, Inc. has made code for their ProSavage, ProSavage DDR and Unichrome drivers available over at viaarena.com.

Of particular interest to the growing number of Linux enthusiasts and customers utilizing VIA EPIA mainboards, is the source for the S3 Graphics UniChrome family display driver for version 2.6.x kernels. The UniChrome family display driver supports the VIA CLE266 and the new VIA CN400 Digital Media chipsets featured on the popular VIA EPIA M series and VIA EPIA SP series mainboards respectively, and will provide developers with the flexibility to autonomously incorporate support for latest applications based on VIA hardware.

Perhaps my Ubuntu machine will at long last be able to play DVDs at a reasonable speed.

Just some random links:

• The Statue of Liberty
• Former site of the Twin Towers, which are still visible in Terraserver data
• Bombers at Travis AFB
• The Chabot Space and Science Center, where I teach telescope making from time to time. The waypoint set by Google isn’t actually the location of the Science Center, it’s down the hill where you take an exit on a windy road.

Dan bookmarked this site on how to use the Terraserver so he could remember it later, so I’m doing the same. Other things of interest are Jef P’s Acme Mapper, now with color images.

Thiago has created a Coin Sampler, basically a loop based synthesizer that is programmed by moving coins on a rotating turntable. As each coin passes under an IR sensor, it triggers the playing of a particular sound.

Addendum: Check out what this MIT guy did with two turntables and a similar idea.