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Drive a Steam Locomotive (exe): Experience the thrill of driving a 1930's passenger locomotive and compete in the Rainhill Trials on Stephensons Rocket. Makes a complete encyclopaedia of steam with interactive screens covering the history, technical and operation of a range of steam locomotives. Mastering the complexities of a steam locomotive is not easy but...; Tags: Engineering Adventures; Software downloads 2007-09-17

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A sailing robot to cross the Atlantic: The Times of London reports that seven robotic craft will compete in a race across the Atlantic Ocean in October 2008. One of them, 'Pinta the robot sailing boat,' has been designed at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. Pinta is expected to sail for three months at a maximum speed of...; Tags: Pinta, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-11
A brief summary: A brief summaryCompare with CFOIn many parts of the world, the CFO must be a chartered/certified accountant. In the US, this is now also (essentially) the case, due to SOx, and SOx is there as a result of accounting scandals.IT continues to disregard formal qualifications and licencing. Maybe the CIO...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Databases, IBM AIX, SOx, shareholder, AIX 5.3, Schwartz, information technology; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
NASA's lunar breathing system: When six astronauts share a 15 cubic meters spacecraft for weeks, how is it possible to avoid to be bothered by your fellows sweating and breathing? I've already written about staying clean in space, but NASA is going further this time. Its scientists are testing a lunar breathing system. The...; Tags: NASA, Carbon Dioxide, CAMRAS, Sorbent, Flows, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Unixfication II: Can the Linux community get over its "not invented here" ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying to myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go until we become a...; Tags: GPL, Virtualization, Kernel, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-05-08

Zune of the future may come with copyright cop: Zune of the future may come with copyright copIt certainly would be nice if MS showed some backbone ...... and said that its customers would hate it, so forget about it. MS is really irritating when it comes to siding with big content against its customers.Zune of the future should...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, AmazonMP3, Microsoft Zune, Zune IS, digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-08
Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward Microsoft: Samba's forthcoming version 3.2 release capitalizes on Microsoft's interoperability commitments while also guarding against patent covenants that threaten the GPL. Samba 3.2, which is expected to be released in roughly one month's time, offers improved integration with the Active Directory in Windows Server 2003 and recently released...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Jeremy Allison, Samba, Microsoft Corp., Samba 3.2, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Virtualization discussion with Oracle: I recently had a chance to chat with Oracle's vice president of Linux engineering, Wim Coekaerts, and senior director of product marketing, Monica Kumar, about Oracles virtualization efforts and a bit about the philosophy behind the company's efforts. In summary, Oracle sees virtualization technology as just another tool organizations can...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Free software great and small: They envision a world with Linux running on the smallest embedded devices to the largest supercomputer clusters, and all possible devices in between. It's only a matter of time before even desktop Linux becomes the mass market. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those...; Tags: Samba, Conference, Jeremy, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jeremy Allison, free software, open source; News items 2008-05-07
UAVs will study Californian smog: The California Energy Commission is funding a research effort named CAPPS, short for California AUAV Air Pollution Profiling Study. CAPPS will use autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (AUAVs) to gather meteorological data as the aircraft fly through clouds over Southern California. The goal is to study smog and its consequences as...; Tags: Southern California, Researcher, Pollution, Aircraft, Global Warming, UAV, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-07
HDTVs: How black is black?: An announcement comes today by way of Pioneer, maker of the ever-popular Kuro HDTV line, saying that its new Kuro sets are five times blacker than the Kuro line on the market today (which we reviewed as the TV with the deepest blacks out there). So wait...; Tags: HDTV, Image, Ratio, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting ToolsVery InformativeThanks Ed.1 question: My machine performs fineit is fast and reliable, I have had no major or even minor issues, 0 BSOD since it arrived last October. Do I still download the latest drivers. There is a bios update available. I always...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), acer, Microsoft Windows Vista; Discussion threads 2008-05-06
Why I didn't like "Microhoo": Yesterday was not a good day to be Jerry Yang. A year after returning to the helm of the company he co-founded, Yang found himself faced with an unsolicited bid from Microsoft, one that offered to pay a 50% premimum over the price of Yahoo stock. Though not ruling the...; Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Developer Orientation, Team Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, DVR, Management, Investment, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Popfly Game Creator: Last week Microsoft released the Popfly Game Creator and I spent some time with it today. Built on Silverlight 1.0, it's a good move by Microsoft and while you won't be creating anything revolutionary with it, it's fairly simple to use and it hits a market that Flash has had...; Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Popfly Site, Games, Personal Technology, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-05-06
A new robotic tasting device: According to the latest American Chemical Society (ACS) Weekly PressPac, French researchers have developed an artificial mouth that chews apples like you and me. Here is a link to this PressPac, from which you'll be able to read a very short note titled 'Munch-o-matic: Scientists develop the artificial mouth.' The...; Tags: Food, Compound, Hre, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-06
The changing SAP culture: The changing SAP cultureHow will SAP attract developer talent?The #1 issue I see with SAP, as an outsider, is that it is a closed, proprietary system with which it is impossible to get experience. People who implement SAP scream and scream for developer talent who can make it sing and...; Tags: Programming languages, Enterprise software, SAP AG, ABAP; Discussion threads 2008-05-06
Photos: Maker Faire unboxed: Weekend event celebrates the do-it-yourselfer ethos with fire, paint, BBs, wire, shadows, and tongue-in-cheek engineering. by CNET News.com; Tags: Photograph, CNET News.com, Light-emitting Diode, Coil, Engineering, Internet, Ethos; Image galleries 2008-05-06
Sometimes it takes a thousand words: Sometimes it takes a thousand wordsA lot more often than "sometimes". (NT).Oh, so true......but you need the diagrams...too many people get lost in the words. That being said, adhering too closely to any standard or methodology is a self defeating exercise.BLUE!I can't believe that you were allowed to do...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, parallel, software, real world, Bookkeeper; Discussion threads 2008-05-06
The changing SAP culture: As Henning Kagermann, SAP's co-CEO prepares for what will probably be his swansong keynote speech at SAPPHIRE 2008 and Leo Apotheker, CEO-in-waiting prepares for the transfer in power, still a year away, a group of the Enterprise Irregulars were able to contrast the different styles of these two industry leaders....; Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Sales Strategy, Leadership, Biotechnology, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Management, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-05
SAP's Apotheker: Business ByDesign costs led to delay: SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker says that Business ByDesign, the application giant's high-profile software as a service product, was delayed because of its total cost of ownership for the company. That's a fancy way of saying SAP hasn't figured out how to make money at its $149 per...; Tags: SAP AG, TCO, Leo Apotheker, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-05