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- Tech behind pinball wizardry
- Don't be distracted by the flashing lights and the pinging, dinging, and clinging. The game of pinball puts some serious technology to work. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visits Alameda, Calif.'s Lucky JuJu, the only pinball museum in the country, to learn about the history and the mechanics behind the classic...
- Tags: Alameda, Games, Personal Technology, News, kara tsuboi, michael schiess, lucky juju, pinball wizard, tilt, gaming, arcade
- Videos 2008-06-09
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- It's 1,100 systems and counting for open-source refurbishment advocates
- It's almost back-to-school time here in New Jersey, so I thought it appropriate to update the Installfest for Schools item that I covered in late May. To refresh your collective memory, Untangle and the Alameda County Computer Resource Center got together at LinuxWorld earlier this month...
- Tags: Computer, Productivity, Open Source, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Reiser leads police to wife's body, gets 15 years
- Hans Reiser was sentenced to 15 years to life in jail for strangling his wife to death in 2006. As part of a deal reached with the Alameda County DA, Reiser received a reduced prison sentence and conviction on a lesser charge -- second degree murder --...
- Tags: Project, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Linux green activists unite!
- Linux enthusiasts are really good at pulling together for the good of the community, so here's hoping they'll be into the Installfest-for-Schools, a green tech event that is going to be held by LinuxWorld and Untangle come August. Here's the idea: Volunteers at the tradeshow will install...
- Tags: Green Technology, Linux Enthusiast, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Product Marketing, Software, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Reiser found guilty of first degree murder
- Software developer Hans Reiser was found guilty today of first degree murder in the death of his wife in late 2006, a conviction that carries up to 25 years in prison and a possible death sentence for the Reiser4 file system. [Techmeme] The verdict, delivered...
- Tags: File System, Ts'o, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Verdict in Hans Reiser murder case -- and fate of Reiser4 -- imminent
- The fate of the Reiser4 file system for Linux may well depend on a verdict rendered by a California jury this week. As an Alameda County jury continues to deliberate the fate of Hans Reiser, the designer of the Reiser File System for Linux who is accused of murdering...
- Tags: Developer, Ubuntu, Linux Kernel, File System, Verdict, Reiser4, Reiser, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Alameda County Uses RFID to Speed Election Results
- After Alameda County's 810 polling places close on Election Day, delivering the voting equipment quickly to the county's vote count facility in Oakland requires an efficient, secure, tightly-run process. Working closely with Alameda County, Motorola partner RFID Global Solution developed the SecureVote solution. SecureVote provides RFID tags for each piece...
- Tags: Alameda County, Motorola Inc., SecureVote, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- NVIDIA Gamer Conference
- In a vacant hangar at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, Calif., hundreds of PC gamers spent the weekend competing in Nvidia's GeForce LAN 4 party. The big draw this year was Crysis, a title some fans call Electronic Arts' most realistic yet. News.com's Kara Tsuboi bids adieu to the...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Gamer, Games, Personal Technology, nvidia, kara tsuboi, news, video games, gaming
- Videos 2007-11-20
- Medical Centers Cost-Effectively Share Resources and Deliver Language Services Using Network and Video Systems
- Alameda County Medical Center ACMC and San Francisco General Hospital SFGH serve populations that are among the most diverse in the United States, with more than 50 percent of patients having limited English proficiency and unable to effectively communicate with healthcare providers. They needed to provide interpreter services to all...
- Tags: Network, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Case studies 2007-08-09
- Alameda (zip)
- Dream of a Sunday afternoon in Alameda Park. Mural painted by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera for the Del Prado Hotel in Mexico City. In the center of the mural is La Catrina; an iconic skeleton figure, symbol of the urban bourgeoisie at the turn of the nineteenth century, created by...
- Tags: Control, PowerDVD, UPnP, Disc
- Software downloads 2007-07-19
- County's loss of voting data leads to new election
- In another case that puts into question the usability of electronic voting machines, a California judge is likely to order a new election for a Berkeley, CA, ballot initiative that lost due to dubious electronic voting machine data, reports IDG News Service.Judge Winifred Smith of the Alameda County Superior Court...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Elections
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- County agrees to share e-voting data after court challenge
- After losing in court, Alameda County, CA, has agreed to share available election data from its e-voting machines, InfoWorld reports. The countys deputy counsel revealed in a court filing that it has tracked down 307 of 420 voting machines that may still contain vote tabulations from a disputed 2004 election...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Before the world knew: insider's diary of BlackBerry service shutdown
- For two hours before the BlackBerry email outage two weeks ago, the Zenprise BlackBerry service monitoring system in place at the County of Alameda (Cal.) data center in the 1.5 million-populaton county seat of Oakland "gave us some indications connectivity was intermittent," senior server engineer Paul Hinsberg told me...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Outages, Case Histories
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Embedded development gains some RAD milestones
- Pressure is mounting on the development process for embedded software -- pressure to produce and move the stuff quickly, pressure to ensure quality amid hundreds of permutations on dozens of targets, and pressure to simplify and standardize on tools, testing, and builds -- all to bring the notion of rapid-agile...
- Tags: Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, Developer Tools, DSO, Eclipse, Embedded, IBM, IT Management, Linux, Microsoft, Mobile, Open Source, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Testing Tools
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Another voting official 'satisfied' with e-voting
- Despite criticism that they didnt look hard enough, supervisors in a California county approved an outside report saying the countys electronic voting systems are secure, reports The Oakland Tribune. Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland made a deal with Alameda County that the voting system must get a green light...
- Tags: e-voting
- Blog posts 2006-10-12
- Java runs remote-controlled Mars rover
- Java runs remote-controlled Mars roverI wonder why no MS software?Maybe NASA wanted it to be REALIABLE?I guess NASA would have looked pretty funny if the first picture sent back from Mars was a BSOD!No Windows of opportunity here ..."Mission Critical" means "No Microsoft" on Earth, too.I wonder why....no linux, or...
- Tags: Programming languages, .NET, Java, rover, NASA, software
- Discussion threads 2004-01-16
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