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- Rail
- A DC voltage in a power supply. A computer's power supply converts AC power into several DC voltages (typically 3.3v, 5v and 12v), each of which is known as...
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- IBM: re-training for our future
- IBM and railroads. This is not a non sequitor. I recently spoke with Keith Dierkx who works for IBM in their expanding business providing services for planning, construction and operation of high-speed rail. Dierkx is in the process of relocating to Beijing where he and IBM will...
- Tags: China, Beijing, Rail, IBM Corp., Dierkx, Government, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- The new railroad era?
- Will Americans become train trained? Europe and Japan have long had high-speed rail systems linking major metro areas. Can America rediscover rails or are we too much in love with the shoeless security probes and two-hour waits at the local airport? President Obama wants to...
- Tags: Barack Obama, Mph, Health Care, Speed, Rail, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Gold Rush Lite 1.0.6 (Mobile)
- Take a train and go for gold. But it's not easy because there aren't any rails. You have to track them down. But you've got the limited time. Do it as faster as you can or the train will crash.Track the rails from the right side of the screen on...
- Tags: Mobile, Rail, Apple iTunes, Rashid Nasibulin, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-02-13
- Taming Ruby on Rails with FiveRuns
- Taming Ruby on Rails with FiveRunsIf the software works wellit will be useful for project refactoring, and assisting the Rails contributors with optimizations too.It's also important to push correct server setups. I know of hosting companies that run in development mode and have heavily laden Apache processes front ending to...
- Tags: Ruby on Rails, Scripting languages, IT Services, OPEN SOURCE, Taming Ruby, FiveRuns, rail
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- New Energy Star ratings for PCs on the way
- New Energy Star ratings for PCs on the wayCheck That Math!From the article:Depending on the model, a 42-inch flat-screen TV consumes between 100 to 250 watts when turned on. Assuming it's on five hours a day, that's something like 200 to 470 kWh/year, or about $500 depending on where you...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, PC, cost calculation, power supply, ampere, effeciency, computer, rail
- Discussion threads 2007-02-08
- Adding Ruby to your resume plus other ideas for staying ahead
- IT careers have an inherent element of risk in them. The technologies you work so hard to master today could be out the door tomorrow. If you stick with what you know it may feel like the safe thing to do, but not many are as lucky as those proficient...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Rail
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- The next generation of Web stacks: High productivity and a touch of controversy
- I'm on an Amtrak train as I write this heading to New York City where I'll get a chance to see Harvard's Andrew McAfee of Enterprise 2.0 fame speak at Interop, a chance I'll actually get twice in the next two days, so expect some coverage here shortly. ...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Ruby on Rails, Web, Web development
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- Gillmor Gang: Memeorandum and the future of media
- Gillmor Gang: Memeorandum and the future of mediaJournosThere appears to be a lack of understanding about how mainstream news journos work here - permeating this discussion. The NYT - along with most mainstream real-news outlets has high overhrads because they do not, just, use journalists full time. They...
- Tags: Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, Memeorandum, rail, media, blogosphere
- Discussion threads 2006-02-06
- Making programmers more productive
- A decade or so ago, I was excited about Java. The promise of Java as a language was that it would make applets, servlets, and other Internet programming tasks easier. While I was and remain a Perl junky, I drank the Java Kool-Aid, believing that I...
- Tags: David Hansson, Java, Rail
- Blog posts 2005-11-01
- OSCON 2005: Tutorials
- I'm at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention all week and will be posting impressions and news as I come across it. I've spent the last two days in tutorials on Ruby on Rails, the Apache Web Services toolkit, and Best Practices for Object-Oriented Perl. I've not programmed anything...
- Tags: Perl, Rail
- Blog posts 2005-08-02
- rePaint-It 1.00 (Windows)
- Have you ever painted your house, and hated it! Well, never again.Just .rePaint-It. first. Take a photo of your home, choose a color scheme androll on the new colors. You don.t need to be an artist as .rePaint-It. will dothe rest. You can change the color scheme as often as...
- Tags: Rail, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2001-01-17
Additional Resources
- jalada Rail Madness 1.0.0 (Mac)
- Rail Madness brings the classic wooden rail on your computer. In this amusing game, you will live a funny adventure and depending on your driving reflexes, you will advance to the next levels. You become a virtual driver of a little railway engine and your challenge is to create the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Wagon, Games, Policies And Procedures, Personal Technology, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2009-11-20
- Rogue Amoeba: App Store 'broken'
- Yikes, I will never buy an iPhone app then[i]Kafasis goes on to say that Rogue Amoeba won't develop additional apps and that updates to its existing iPhone applications "will likely be rare."[/i]How terrible! You buy an iPhone app, it has a couple bugs in it, but because of Apple's incompetence...
- Tags: Smart phones, way thing, Rogue Amoeba, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- News to know: Logitech-LifeSize; Macworld; Droid sales; Tandberg; e-book readers
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: Logitech gobbles up LifeSize; Enters video conferencing Dave Greenfield: Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Sales, Ryan Naraine, Sam Diaz, E-book Reader, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- IBM figures rail transit is going to get faster and cleaner
- Ride those Rails!Thanks for this great article on the future of rail travel. It's the most obvious thing - can't wait for US to catch on and catch up. Energy-wise, trains win hands down. And the technology is going strong. Great blog. The only problem with rails . . .The...
- Tags: IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- IBM figures rail transit is going to get faster and cleaner
- High speed rail transit is happening in many lands. IBM is part of the action. by Harry Fuller
- Tags: IBM Corp., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Rule the Rail 1.5 (Windows)
- Plan. Build. Control. See a fully functional plotting table on your screen. If you've ever been struck in amazement by the miniature, colorful, and alive world of toy trains and wanted to plan your system and place every tiny house and tree accordingly. If you ever have wanted the ability...
- Tags: Plan, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-08
- More e-readers - more misconceptions
- my thoughts . . ."Like any good Massachusetts liberal, I?m a big fan of NPR."Well, do keep in mind some of us are conservative.Please?As much as I like ZDNet for tech news, it can be a tad disheartening when there's the occasional trip down political lane, and ZDNet does tend...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, E-books, open mind, NPR, Car Talk, education, e-reader, tax, misconception, British Broadcasting Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Apple's September quarter: Expect Mac unit upside
- Should be good...Mac sales will grow - 2.8 million isn't unreasonable although I think 2.6 million is more likely - the new iPod range will stimulate sales or at least keep them ticking over and the iPhone will have shifted at least 7 million units.Interestingly Nokia reported the same issue...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Digital music, Digital media, Operational accounting, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Zune, Zune HD, sales
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000
- it would be nice......if GM would sell these cars in North America...just my two centsRE: GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000It aggravates me. Why is the US the last one to get this type of innovation that is affordable. I WANT ONEOh yeah people in a...
- Tags: car, General Motors Corp., electric car, small electric car
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
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