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- MIT team working on $12 'Apple II' desktop
- Developing nations, listen up: a computer is headed your way, and it costs less than two Value Meals at your nearest McDonald's. Today's Boston Herald has a great story about a new project underway at MIT to create a $12 computer, the same university that spawned the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
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- UPDATE: MIT team working on $12 NES, not Apple II
- Looks like the Boston Herald got it wrong. The MIT group that was researching how to make a $12 computer for developing nations was actually working on a machine that's more Super Mario than Steve Jobs. Computerworld's Eric Lai discovers the truth: ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?
- A new proposal out of MIT (original home of the so-called $100 laptop from the OLPC) has gotten quite a bit of traction in the blogosphere and around the Web. A group of students, recalling their own early computing experiences in Apple II labs, is attempting to resurrect these...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Accessing Internet at 640 Gb/s?
- University of Sydney physicists have developed an optical chip that could potentially improve 'Internet speeds to up to 100 times faster than current Australia's networks.' According to the Sydney Morning Herald, these chalcogenide glass photonic chips will be very cheap to produce as they're based on plain glass. As said...
- Blog posts 2008-07-12
- Herald (exe)
- Join this new private community network where you and everyone on the network can publish and share news regarding local, national, international news, products, services, employment opportunities, opinions. Get your word out. Find what you are looking for. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2008-06-24
- A life destroyed: State employee acquitted of child porn charges
- Michael Fiola's life was destroyed by spammers who turned his computer into a child porn kiosk. The investigator for the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents investigator fired for having kiddie porn on his PC. But, the Boston Globe reports, a computer forensic analysis revealed the machine was running out-of-date virus...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- NASA robots on Moses Lake dunes
- According to the Tri-City Herald, WA, NASA engineers in space suits have tested new robotic vehicles for two weeks on the dunes of Moses Lake, WA. These robots could be used on future NASA missions on the Moon and on Mars. According to the newspaper, five robotic vehicles were tested:...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Debunking yet another bogus malware study
- Here we go again, with yet another round of bogus reporting about the extent of malware infections in the United States. This morning I read a report by Nick Farrell of The Inquirer, which was accompanied by the screamer headline One in Four US computers infected. It links in turn to a much longer...
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Ruby on Rails expert: Rails scales; Twitter shouldn't taint Ruby
- Ruby on Rails, a rapid-fire Web development stack, has been under fire of late. Twitter outages have led a fairly loud chorus of folks singing the "Ruby doesn't scale" song. But is it really fair to make the Ruby-Twitter connection, which by the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Arrrghhhh! Windows is collapsing! Run! ... but where to?
- Arrrghhhh! Windows is collapsing! Run! ... but where to?I went back begging forgivenessI used Mac OS on two Macs running 10.0 and 10.3/10.4 respectively. I would definitely recommend Vista over Tiger - haven't tried Leopard but it seems like a point release with some new visual effects.Once...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- I've been fired!
- I've been fired!He did say at the end :"I know this: yesterday wasn’t April fool’s - and tomorrow maybe somebody will think this is funny - but right now it’s about 1:15 in the morning and come 8:30 - I’ll be on the phone to the lawyers."Yes, smells fishy to...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Customer blames bankruptcy on IBM IT failure
- American LaFrance ALF, the "leading brand of custom-made fire fighting, fire rescue vehicles, ambulances, and heavy-duty work refuse vehicles," has declared bankruptcy, blaming IBM and a failed ERP implementation. According to filings in the District of Delaware bankruptcy court (PACER case no. 08-10178),...
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- The OS should be invisible to the user - Is Torvalds right?
- The Sydney Morning Herald has a Q&A with Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds. It's an interesting read, but one part more than any stood out for me: "An o/s should never have been something that people in general really care about: it should be completely invisible and nobody should...
- Blog posts 2008-02-09
- News to know: Microsoft's new language; Yahoo saga; Apple; Vulnerability counts
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft declares its modeling love with a new language, ‘D' Larry Dignan: Yahoo's conundrum: White knights are hard to find Dan Farber: Mitch Kapor: Microsoft+Yahoo, major integration challenge David Morgenstern: Will Microsoft support Windows on Macs?...
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Horrors! Linus Torvalds calls HFS+ 'utter crap'
- In an interview at Melbourne's linux.conf.au conference, Linus Torvalds called the standard file system of Mac OS X "complete and utter crap." Mac fans are only slightly outraged, pointing out that HFS+ isn't really "complete and utter crap," rather, it's just slightly crap-ish. In the Sidney Morning...
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this week
- Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this weekSomething MS has done very wellDespite how MS always gets negative things said about them they have done silverlight very well. Its a great piece of app for the web.Remember: I'm here from Microsoft and I'm here to help youHere are...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-21
- Gizmodo prank trashes CES presentations
- Gizmodo prank trashes CES presentationsHas Larry figured it out yet?So far, he and the Goo Goo Gaa Gaa Gizmodo pre-school prankers are about the only ones who think it's funny.How's THIS for hypocrisy?Am I the only one who finds it hypocritical that the Goo Goo Ga Ga Gizmodo pre-school pranksters...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-11
- Frontline Wireless folds but Martin 'hopeful' public safety network will survive
- Whither the next-generation national public safety network? Frontline Wireless, which had been trumpeting a proposal for a public/private partnership for public safety, announced a few days ago that it was "closed for business." The problem? FW couldn't raise the $128 million bond required to bid on spectrum expected to cost...
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- News to know: OLPC lessons; 2008 in preview; Blu-ray on new MacBook Pro?
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Lessons Learned: Two weeks with the XO laptop. Gallery: The unboxing. Researcher: Sears' use of ComScore software falls short on privacy Robin Harris: Blu-ray option on new MacBook Pro Happy 2008: ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
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