Chris Ball: New job!

New job!

Chris Ball — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:02:00 +0100

It's been a hectic few weeks. Two weeks ago I resigned from Netcraft, and on Monday I started work at One Laptop per Child. I'm loving it already; I'll try to blog progress as I go. I'm going to be working on performance tuning for the laptop's kernel drivers and userspace apps. This'll certainly be the first time I've been able to measure performance improvements by "amount of time and energy saved by several million children who are charging their machines by hand"...

"New job!" by Mark Carroll

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:34:19 +0100

Ah, that's why I've not seen you on #chiark! I still have to grab you for a gale intro.

It's great that you've got such a job now.

"New job!" by Monia

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:36:17 +0100

Wow, this is really cool. Congratulation :-)

"New job!" by Clare

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:26:10 +0100

Congrats!

"New job!" by spaz

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:17:37 +0100

Congrats Chris. Hope life is still well in Booooston.

I've moved from NY back to LA. greets from the g to the a to the l to the e.

"New job!" by Chris

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:42:47 +0100

I thought it needed a power supply.

It does, and the pullcord will be attached to that rather than the laptop; using human-generated power wasn't given up on, just having it be on the laptop.

"New job!" by Matthew

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:09:25 +0100

Eh? I thought they ditched the idea of a hand crank or even a foot pedal? I thought it needed a power supply.

"New job!" by Stu Hood

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:38:04 +0100

Wow... that has got to be a powerful motivator, heh. Don't let it ruin you if you can't find that last little leak =x

"New job!" by Lucas

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:38:00 +0100

Kudos! Rock on this project! Brazil will surely thank you! :-)

"New job!" by Chris

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:04:47 +0100

Thanks! I thought of you this morning; we're going to try and get oprofile up on the Geode, if we can. (The performance counters don't interrupt on rollover, but we can use the RTC..)

"New job!" by John Levon

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:30:48 +0100

Very cool, congratulations!