Linux Nerd New Year's Resolutions

Mine is 1360x768. Heh. Like you didn't see that one coming.

Actually, I want to do some bare-bones, hardware-active programming on my Raspberry Pi. I don't mean some Python script to do what I want; I mean reboot, load my code from (hd0a)/kernel.img, and off it goes until I pull the plug. I have some ideas to help me with the fundamentals.

Oh guffaw. Mine is 1980xsomething.

;)

Linux on ARM is already big, and going to get bigger. ARM is putting a lot of pressure on x86 on everything from little bitty Raspberry Pis to big servers. It's going to get interesting

2560x1024 :o)

http://www.microlinux.fr/images/desktop/mled_workstation.png

I'm wanting to attempt a Gentoo install this year as part of the Distro Journey 2014 series. I also want to improve my audio editing skills in Audacity so I don't have to rely on Levelator as much (seeing as how new versions of Wine don't play with it nicely and the Linux port is too old and crusty) while putting together podcasts.

I'm also seriously considering the idea of making a custom WordPress Theme, though that may require an immense amount of patience on my part. Oh, and definitely make more videos via OpenShot.

Continue to learn Haskell and put in practice this new style of programming. Of course, using GNU/Linux...

I started my business a few years ago and learned the hard way that roughly 10 % of my clients cause roughly 90 % of my migraines. So no matter how big or important the client is, as soon as I figure out the relationship is of a toxic nature, I fire him.

My resolutions for 2014 are only of a "boring" nature, lose a few kilos and get better at climbing. My geek projects all have a nice momentum.

Cheers from the sunny South of France,

Niki

My resolutions are: Jog at least a couple km per week. Eat more and gain 3-4kg. Watch more movies and discover more bands. Not buy more than 3 smartphones, preferably used instead of new. Actually read a few books.

I think these should be fairly realistic goals given the lack of my self expectation.

I've never owned a smartphone (or any mobile phone) in my life. On the other hand, I can give you ten kilos for free. :o)

Among on the other, more mundane things, I want to build my own computer. I don't mean the more common buy a dozen major parts and bolt them into a steel box sort of building.

I've recently read through the first three volumns of "The Art of Computer Programming" by D. Knuth, and felt inspired. Not just by his MIX machine, but also for learning complex algorithms at the assembly level. So far, i have a documented instruction set, asm language, the start of an assember and an emulator, and a working hello world application. I don't intend to stop until I have a fully emulated machine, with processer, disk, networking, audio and graphic io devices, and an application stack that includes a modern programming lanuage, a multitreaded ui, a full development environment, and a few real world useful apps. I only hope that at some point I can burn it into a FPGA.

Best of luck with yours!