Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
I've always believed that the new "E-passports" weren't going to be all they were cracked up to be and now there's a good example of why the people who're so flapping excited about them need to reach for a fresh dose of progesterone and sit back and take a fresh ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Anybody with even a slight understanding of how a hard drive operates knows that there are some problems that go along with it. Because many of the parts require high precision alignment it's entirely too easy to mess that up. Just ask the guy who bought a new ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I don't know quite what the deal is but lately I've been seeing stories that are trying to push the idea that the mouse as a computer input device is going to die out. The latest I've seen of these stories is an over dramatic Bold type headline on ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
I just saw an interesting article about some research GM is doing that is aimed at eventually having cars equipped with a HUD (Head Up Display).
The article goes out of it's way to emphasize the fact that this is intended to benefit older drivers but it's plainly obvious that such ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Well, it looks like *somebody* has learned a lesson. According to the folks at Microsoft watch, the Justice Department is overseeing the development of "Windows 7", which is the version that's supposed to replace the disaster everybody loves to call veeesta.
This government sanctioned "Technical Committee" is overseeing Windows development ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
When it comes to bad ideas for the Internet, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) a non profit organization that handles IP address space allocation has approved a wide expansion of TLDs (Top Level Domains).
Up until a few years ago, the most common endings for domain name have ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
That GPS gadget in your car or phone seem handy to you? I imagine it does. What about the times when you just can't get any information from it? Well, it seems that some of the problems at least are due to intentional jamming rather than normal ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Here's something interesting, something on slashdot VM
Enables 'Write-Once, Run Anywhere' Linux Apps, we're liable to see Linux native apps that can be run on any machine that has this virtual machine installed. In a way it reminds me a lot of Java Virtual Machines, but in spite ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
That's right. If you have an inkjet printer, especially if you've had it for a while, then it's got a really dirty secret.
Have you ever wondered how it cleans the print head? Well, it does so by spraying some ink through it to make sure that the holes are ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
We it hasn't been out very long and already Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is being welcomed *almost* as un-enthusiastically as Vista itself has been. Apparently, next to Vista itself, the service pack is turning out to be one of the most UNwelcome software packages to come out of ...
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