I’ve not yet been impressed by any of the e-book readers I’ve seen – with Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader being the apparent “market leaders” in the segment.
However, Barnes & Noble’s new Nook may change my mind. From the early reviews, it appears to have a better screen, longer battery life, and more natural navigation [...]
Category Archives: technical
nook
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
nasa searching for new challenges
Sunday, October 4, 2009
I saw this in /. earlier in the week.
Apparently NASA is turning to the American public for new challenge/contest ideas.
I don’t know whether to be impressed that they’re trying to get new perspective.. or scared that they can’t come up with it on their own.
There’s lots and lots of smart people at NASA. I hope [...]
almost drr…
Monday, September 14, 2009
With the new iPod nano from Apple, it looks like someone is starting to implement a digital radio recorder.
It’d be nice if it wasn’t just the “skip” or “pause” protection, but it’s a start.
avoiding the voicemail prompts
Thursday, September 10, 2009
I just found this article from David Pogue that indicates how to avoid the voicemail prompts and greetings:
It turns out that each carrier offers a “bypass the instructions” keystroke that takes you directly to the beep. (It bypasses both the person’s own recorded greeting and the 15-second carrier nonsense.)
To be as evil as possible, the [...]
more help from stackoverflow
Thursday, September 3, 2009
I realize I asked this question a while back, but in reviewing some of my history, I was reminded of how helpful the site has been for a variety of issues.
And I’m sure that questions like this one regarding VMware and VPNs is something “I should have known” – but not knowing where to look [...]
html 5
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
A list apart has a nice write-up of the forthcoming HTML 5 standard.
If you are like most designers, you probably don’t write all your markup by hand. But until the tools you use catch up to the new elements in (X)HTML 5, you will be doing some markup by hand while you learn. There’s been [...]
tiny code
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
I ran across the Tiny Code site recently, and was reminded of how many of us started programming on ancient machines that barely had enough horsepower to handle typing – yet we’d spend hours on end writing little games and whatnot that had to be small or they wouldn’t run.
I’d love to see a return [...]
backblaze storage pods
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Yet another link I found off Hacker News, the Backblaze storage pod – 67 Terabytes of storage in a rack-mountable unit for <$8k.
I’d love one or two or 80 of these in my spare bedroom
opennms on serverfault.com
Friday, August 14, 2009
While I don’t currently use OpenNMS, I do lurk on the mailing lists to learn about it
While on serverfault today, I thought about checking to see what OpenNMS questions there may be, and found several. None I’m qualified to answer, but the results are here: http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/opennms.
For posts that merely have OpenNMS mentioned: http://serverfault.com/search?q=opennms.
end6 must die
Have any of you seen end6.org?
Apparently some web sites choose to redirect their viewers to end6.org rather than render in IE6.
Yes – IE6 is old. Very old. But hundreds of thousands of us are stuck using it while at work due to bad IT policies, or upgrade paranoia.
Taking me to end6 instead of your content [...]