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- A firefighting beetle robot
- According to Popular Science, German researchers have designed firefighting robots mimicking beetles. The OLE robotic beetle (short for 'Offroad Löscheinheit' -- which means 'off-road extinguishing apparatus' in German) has been developed at the University of Magdeburg-Stendal. The OLE would be autonomous and guided by GPS, infrared and heat sensors and...
- Tags: OLE, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- How "Wintel thinking" reduces productivity
- For many jobs there's a PC way and a Unix way. For example, I write these blogs using vi under either CDE (Solaris 10) or Gnome (Solaris 9) and just embed references and format information as I go along. The result is extremely portable because the text is independent of...
- Tags: Enterprise Policy, What users care about
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- iPhone activation problems plague iPhone launch
- iPhone activation problems plague iPhone launchPLEEEEEEEASE! STOP with the iPhoney!!Aido, PLEASE blog about something interesting... I mean, the rest of the world is lucky enough to be spared the iPhoney so far and probably DO NOT CARE.Your blog seems to have become dedicated to just one piece of overly hyped,...
- Tags: Blogging, Well Let, touch screen, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-01
- Shadows over Linux
- Shadows over LinuxSelf interest is a wonderful thingPeople tend to back whatever they have an investment in. Murph has a lot of time and history invested in Unix and Sun in particular. As a result, the last paragraph of the story could have been written as [i]"... an Us Vs...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Self-Interest, Sun Products, Murph, Unix, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Solaris, ZFS
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- Ubuntu on Virtual PC 2007 - No way dude!
- Ubuntu on Virtual PC 2007 - No way dude!I've heard of problems with Ubuntuon virtual machines before as well. What it boils down to is whether the correct Xorg graphics driver is present on the LiveCD.Now, if you know what you're doing (and admittedly ~99.999% of people don't) you could...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Ubuntu, Microsoft Virtual PC, Virtual PC 2007
- Discussion threads 2007-02-22
- Shift to larger TVs favors LCD over plasma
- Shift to larger TVs favors LCD over plasmaIt used to be that...It used to be that plasma TVs looked better than LCDs but plasma had burn-in issues.Lately the good quality LCDs look every bit as good as plasma but plasma still have its burn-in issues.Why would anyone choose plasma these...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, Aussie Rules, LCD, plasma, TV, DLP
- Discussion threads 2006-11-26
- Intel to sell new Itanium servers
- Intel to sell new Itanium serversNot a minute too soon....I didn't realize that Itanium was still around .... What took Intel so long to wake up and realize that it botched Itanium so badly and go back to start to work on it again? SGI to the fall in the...
- Tags: Processors, server, Dell Computer Corp., AMD64, Intel Corp., Intel Itanium
- Discussion threads 2006-09-22
- Indiana schools enroll Linux
- Indiana schools enroll LinuxCool stuffLinux MUST make some kind of inroads on the desktop if it's going to go to the next level. We need more desktop deployments to point out to other governments and businesses that linuxtops are a viable option that should be addressed.our youth, our futureThis is...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Office, Linux, No. Do, Microsoft Excel, desktop, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-08-05
- Is open source a scam against itself?
- Is open source a scam against itself?Using weapons in a warhas happened for thousands of years. THis is but another iteration.wasted resourcesOperating systems have been getting so much attention that user interfaces have suffered, if they spent as much money on the software that people actually use, instead of OS...
- Tags: Linux, 64-bit, Operating systems, Free Stuff, IBM Corp., open source, operating system, Forbes, OpenSource, JBoss
- Discussion threads 2005-06-16
- Napster's music free, after all
- Napster's music free, after allMore than one way to skin a catGet it? Napster = cat. Oh never mind.Disproves......the claim that people would willingly pay for cheap music downloads, doesn't it? :)Carl RapsonNothing new...slow news day?this is essencially the same method used to copy casset tapes back before...
- Tags: Napster Inc., music, copy protection
- Discussion threads 2005-02-15
- The attack of the $2 million worm
- The attack of the $2 million wormTCO...I'm sure the these outages and breakins are reflected in Microsoft's paid-for TCO studies right?Move to Linux and shed yourself of these problems.-BryanWhat's the average costincurred by companies that don't run Windows?A friend of mine who manages an Apple/Linux shop (Macs on the desktop/Linux...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft Windows, TCO, worm, Internet
- Discussion threads 2004-07-06
- Microsoft reins in Longhorn for 2006 launch
- Microsoft reins in Longhorn for 2006 launchAre they changing the name to "Shorthorn"?Ah, good old Microsoft, promise their users the world, then deliver a tiny fraction, and deliver it late. Does the phrase "vaporware" ring a bell?All you SA suckers... This is your Return-On-Investment . ? . ?You paid...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Linux, Patches, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Longhorn, Billy-Bob, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2004-04-09
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