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Eco-friendly explosives?

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLNL researchers have added 'green' solvents to an explosive called TATB (1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene). As a result, these explosives may soon get a little greener and a little more precise. As said the project's principal investigator, 'Improving crystal quality and purity leads to explosive materials that are safer...

Tags: Liquid, Solvent, Fluoride, TATB, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-31

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Alternative energy still powerful, says report

Don't give up on alternative energy, says EER. They cite three long-term trends that mean a long and successful future for effective producers of electricity and energy not based on fossil fuels: "The globe is still warming, the earth's fossil fuel resources are still being depleted, and the...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Fossil Fuel, EER, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: "I don't think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop"

Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: "I don't think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop"Exactly, its not about making money.Which is why it never will. The Linux community is anti-profit. Every profit making scheme is labeled as "evil" and a corruption of the FOSS way of life.Absolutely Correct!It is a...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, thing technology need, SJVN, Linux desktop, Ubuntu, desktop, Linux, barn, Shuttleworth

Discussion threads 2008-10-28

MSI Wind notebook hits stores, promptly sells out?

MSI Wind notebook hits stores, promptly sells out?I am far more interested in the Linux one.Any info on the price & availability, of those. I understand that it will be $50 or $100 less expensive. @ @ $399 which makes it a possibly better deal than the Eee or HP...

Tags: Notebooks, MSI Wind notebook, MSI, notebook, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Xerox: Gel ink will be the future

There may come a day when we're buying a tube of ink gel for our printers. Xerox on Thursday said it is previewing what it calls a "cured gel ink technology" that prints on plastic and foil. Xerox's plan is to take digital printers to the packaging...

Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper, Image Quality, Inkjet Printer, Ink, Gel, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Gallery: Create your own black iPhone

It's going to be at least a few more weeks before we can buy a 3G iPhone, which reportedly will have some sort of black treatment to the rear panel. In the mean time I took it upon myself to create my own. 1. Source the part...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPhone, Aluminum, 3G, Advertising & Promotion, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, iFixIt, Marketing, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-05-23

What is the U.S. doing about security?

I've been terrible busy lately.  Hopefully you all here haven't noticed, as I've been working hard to still keep my posts flowing, but I've just got time to catch up with several blogs that I read often.  One of those blogs is the Emergent Chaos blog...

Tags: Card, Database, President, Blog, Passport Card, RFID, Government, Security, Wireless, Biometrics, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Tap Water: Solution to Dirty Hands, High Drug Prices and Political Correctness

Back in high school chemistry I was taught that water is the "universal solvent." Now it seems to be the universal solution. Tap water is now the easiest way to political correctness. Long ago I blogged here about the pending demise of bottled water and its plastic...

Tags: Beverage, London, Seattle, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-19

HP thinks big about printing; Acquires NUR Macroprinters

Hewlett-Packard scooped up NUR Macroprinters, an Israeli company that specializes in wide-format printing, for $117.5 million. With the move, announced Monday, HP is delving deeper into commercial printing and graphic design. NUR makes UV-curable and solvent inkjet printers that are used for display graphics, signs, billboards and other products....

Tags: Printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Printing, Document Management, Desktop Publishing, Printers, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Peripherals, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-10

A new way to make water -- and fuel cells

You probably know that it is easy to combine hydrogen and oxygen to make water. After all, this chemical reaction is known for more than two centuries. But now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC have discovered a new way to make water. As states the UIUC...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Oxygen, Hydrogen, UIUC, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-03

Water, water everywhere, but only 2% to drink

GoingGreen, Davis CA: where'll we get the water? The panel: Dennis Merens, Director North America, Dow Venture Capital group. John Sylvia, Partner, Texas Pacific Group. A. Judson Hill, Managine Director, Halifax Group. ------ The moderator begins by reminding us that water...

Tags: Pipe, China, America, Beverage, Pricing Strategy, Water, AJH, DM, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Can Google change telecommunications?

Can Google change telecommunications?VOIP option to wireless lock-in.I generally use my Skype phone when I travel. There's still lock-in, but the calls are cheaper and the quality is good. When an open WiFi is available, I Skype to that one. When none is available - as it can sometimes be...

Tags: Federal government, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, spectrum, bandwidth, network, FCC, government, Google Inc., telecommunications

Discussion threads 2007-08-23

SunRocket said to be on last legs

SunRocket said to be on last legsI hope SR survivesI signed with SR last nov for the 2 year plan. I also use SkypeIN w/unlimited out, but the voice quality is not there. I have been using Gizmo Project with PAP2 for my home office and am very happy with...

Tags: SunRocket

Discussion threads 2007-07-15

Storing hydrogen into organic molecules

While it is possible to store hydrogen in metal containers to use as fuel in hydrogen-powered vehicles, it is not today a cost-effective solution. But now, researchers at the University of California at Riverside UCR have identified organic molecules that mimic metals. Theyve used carbenes, molecules which contain a carbon...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment

Blog posts 2007-04-21

Lighting the nanoworld with nanolamps

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Cornell University CU has built nanolamps. These extremely small light bulbs are made of light-emitting nanofibers about the size of a virus or the tiniest of bacteria. Using a technique called electrospinning, the researchers spun the fibers from a metallic element, the ruthenium, and...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology

Blog posts 2007-04-14

Best practices: optical media selection and care

Last week after a piece of optical media destroyed my MacBook Pros SuperDrive, I began getting more cautious (bordering on paranoid, actually) about the types and kinds of optical media that I trust my backups and data to. Some of my best practices (with some help from Jonas at Media...

Tags: Optical Drive, Media

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Bringing those dollars home

Bringing those dollars homeOff-shoring antique COBOL programs...... doesn't work because the programs tend to be idiosyncratic in many ways. Just explaining the accumulated oddities constitutes on-the-job traing. Particularly with the further oddities of the way systems connect.An anecdote: a programmer named internal variables after his favorite high...

Tags: Programming languages, Scripting languages, Development tools, Databases, LAMP Stack, Paul, dollars home, Python, Perl, PHP

Discussion threads 2007-02-15

Kodak's consumer printers aim to chop ink costs

Kodak's consumer printers aim to chop ink costsThe Canon problem.Yes, taking the print heads off the ink will save money in ink, BUT unless you use your printer REGULARLY, you will fall into the problem I always run into with Canon printers (which also have ink separate from print heads...

Tags: Printers, cartridge, Eastman Kodak Co., Canon Inc., printer

Discussion threads 2007-02-06

Shiny nanoparticles for new sensors

Every other week, some scientists say that they have found the perfect sensors to be used to detect environmental pollution or contamination of food products. Today, researchers at UC Davis say they have created luminescent nanoparticles that could also be used for medical diagnostics. These nanoparticles are coated in a...

Tags: Defense &, Security, Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation, nanoparticle

Blog posts 2007-01-26

Google trying to buy Microsoft Office clone

Google trying to buy Microsoft Office cloneIrrelevant!There are already alternative office suites. In fact, not only is this not a plus...but it's a minus for GOOG. Cuz who in their right mind *buys* an alternative to M$ Office when the leading alternative, OpenOffice, is free??Google buying OFFICE clone?Google...

Tags: Web browsers, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Mainstream Media, Google Inc., KACHING, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-12-12