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author: Chris Hodapp
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date: 2008-04-25
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slug: scrap-notes-20080425ish-20080503
title: Scrap notes, 2008.04.25ish-2008.05.03
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categories:
- Scratch
tags:
- os
---


	
  * [Adobe Open Screen Project](http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/) - apparently Adobe is now opening up the SWF and FLV formats, which hopefully soon means significantly less trouble getting Flash to work for me on Linux.

	
  * [Tilera TILE64](http://www.tilera.com/products/processors.php) - some sort of chip with 64 interconnected cores (or "tiles"); according to their site, tiles can be grouped into clusters, and the chip can run multiple operating systems simultaneously. Maybe kinda neat.

	
  * [Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest](http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/) - "whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels." Kinda interesting to read.

	
  * [Contiki OS](http://www.sics.se/contiki/) - "Contiki is a small, open source, highly portable, multitasking computer operating system developed for use on a number of memory-constrained networked systems ranging from 8-bit computers to embedded systems on microcontrollers, including sensor network motes." (from [Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiki)). Apparently can run from a few KB and provide multitasking and TCP/IP, as well as a full GUI if given about 30 KB. It runs on a variety of systems, including AVR micros, Commodore, Apple II, blahblahblah. Looks handy.

	
  * Sort of reminds me of the [TRON Project](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_Project) despite not really being anything like it.


