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- No clear sailing for wind power
- Courtesy: US Geological Survey In many venues wind power can be as controversial as nuclear power. In Scotland there's a big fight brewing over mlountaintop windmills to generate electricity. One charge: the tall towers holding the turbines uglify the once beautiful landscape. Critics...
- Tags: Turbine, Farm, North Dakota, Wind, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- Interconnecting wind farms
- Wind power is one the world's fastest growing electric energy source, but as wind is intermittent, a single wind farm cannot deliver a steady amount of energy. This is why scientists at Stanford University want to connect wind farms to develop a cheaper and reliable power source. Interconnecting wind farms...
- Tags: Turbine, Professor, Stanford University, Idea, Farm, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-23
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- Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.
- National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...
- Tags: Turbine, Renewable Energy, Borland Delphi, Financing, Programming Languages, Financial Accounting, Development Tools, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Little Hopper's Memory Matching Game (exe)
- Preschool and kindergarten students will have fun practicing identification of numbers, letters, animals, and things while testing their memory skills in a classic tile match up farm themed environment in Little Hopper's Memory Matching Game. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Memory, Fast Rabbit Software, Games, Flash Memory, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-09-05
- Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates
- It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So,...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, mW, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'
- Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'How about a plug in hybrid that uses CNG and electric?How about a plug in hybrid that uses CNG and electric instead of gasoline/electric? The other thing to consider is that trucks, construction equipment, and farm equipment could be converted to CNG....
- Tags: CNG, car
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- What's on Obama's iPod?
- On 15 August I posted a piece about what's on Michael Phelps' iPod (spoiler: lots of hip hop). Over the weekend I came across a piece in thew September issue of Macworld magazine about What's on Obama's iPod. The story which quotes The Examiner article offline says...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Obama, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Excel and Basic Accounting Error
- Excel and Basic Accounting ErrorWe should go back to manual ledgers...VisiCalc was created to eliminate accounting errors. Now the spreadsheet is now being blamed for accounting errors. Perhaps the real problem is GIGO. Garbage in, Garbage out.The real culprit is slick sleaze ball corporate accountants and managers that are trying...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, fun thing, Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet, big system, accounting
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Microsoft unveils Application Server License Mobility change to ease some virtualization headaches
- Microsoft has quietly unveiledĀ its much anticipated licensing change to ease virtualization: Application Server License Mobility. TheĀ licensing plan, quietly launched in a licensing brief on the company web site tonight, now allows customers to freely move VMs, virtual workloads -- and their respective licenses -- across multiple servers...
- Tags: Virtualization, License, Server Farm, Application Server, Mobility, Microsoft Corp., Application Server License Mobility Plan, Servers, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond
- Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Network, Server, Akamai Technologies Inc., Content, Limelight Networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Data Centers, Networking, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Russia, Georgia and NASA
- Russia, Georgia and NASASelf reliance is a good thingLet's be really glad we're not dependent on Russia for more important things... and yes, I do think that foreign countries should be wary of over-dependence on the US works both ways.I think Bill Nelson has done a good job over the...
- Tags: Self-Reliance, COTS, SpaceX, Orbital, NASA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- AmiAmi Kart (exe)
- Join the championship in AmiAmi Kart. Choose from 7 cute characters and race at high speed on the tracks, including mcdonald's farm, valcia snowland, mountain ali, playama highland, makuba desert and tropical sea.Winning the championship can unlock the hidden character and the special race.Players can collect missile and bomb that...
- Tags: Character, AmigoGames, Security
- Software downloads 2008-08-14
- (Photos: Hydrogen Road Tour gets into gear)
- (Photos: Hydrogen Road Tour gets into gear)Where's the Hydrogen?I'll tell you how to get enough hydrogen to run the world for millenia. There are certain, very large areas of the world, typically volcanic, which have a massive heat gradient. One such is Kamchatka, on the Eastern border of Siberia. Here...
- Tags: hydrogen, Hydrogen Road Tour, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- iPhone 3G boot failure complaints pile up
- iPhone 3G boot failure complaints pile up2 million phones204 messages on a support forum.Internet bullhorn effect.Q.E.D.When will Apple fans admit iPhone not the answer to WM stability "woes"?I've been using an iPAQ PocketPC non cell phone for years now and it never crashes, never needs reboots. I've been using a...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., failure complaint, Apple iPhone 3G, phone, 3G
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Time for Google to take out Sprint
- Time for Google to take out SprintWhy change the name?The Sprint name stands for poor quality. Google has a reputation for high quality.I assume that, along with the name change, Google might institute policy changes which would decrease dissatisfaction with the brand, in order to protect its own good name.Sprint...
- Tags: WiMAX, Product marketing, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Branding, Telecom & Utilities, Google Inc., Sprint Communications
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista
- IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on VistaHoo that could be painful very painfulibm ,red hat, ubuntu working together..... ough Microshot may feel this a bitRE: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on VistaUnless they make programs and hardware as easy to install &...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Driver Installation, Linux, IBM Corp., Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- The 8GB/64-bit advantage - More RAM doesn't always mean better performance
- The 8GB/64-bit advantage - More RAM doesn't always mean better performanceI'll give you one thing ...... you're fast!RE: ProofreaderYou missed, "As expected, the difference in score between a system running [b]8GB[/b] of RAM and one running with only [b]8GB[/b] was small when measured with PassMark PerformanceTest 6.1."I offer ZDNet the...
- Tags: Memory, Vista x64, More RAM, RAM, performance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- ScaleOut StateServer (msi)
- ScaleOut StateServer SOSS creates an in-memory distributed cache across a server farm or compute grid for storage of mission-critical information. With its breakthrough technology, SOSS is the perfect way to ensure highly available and scalable cache storage of session state or application data for enterprise class ASP.NET applications. SOSSs unique...
- Tags: cache, performance, scaleout software, soss, performance management, storage, human resources, workforce management, hardware
- Software downloads 2008-08-05
- No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2P
- No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2PSlippery Slope argumentationYep, once they have the monitoring laws in place, next they will want to monitor a whole lot more. It is a trojan horse, but then Joe McCarthy isn't too far away in US history.Of course, Good ol' Joe needed a...
- Tags: anti-P2P, monitoring
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Doubletake Customer Profile: Chickasaw Nation
- I recently had the chance to communicate with Rob Jacks, Chief Information Technology Officer for the Commerce Division of the Chickasaw Nation. The Commerce Division uses Double Take's data protection software and was willing to speak about their experiences with the technology. About Commerce Division...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Casino, Technology, Rob Jacks, Commerce Division, CNDC Core Competency, H/A, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Games, Storage Management, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Personal Technology, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
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