Techie Tidbits

Atomic Battery could run for Decades

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/10/021018080122.htm

Guess we've got to run those nano-bots somehow!

SMTP proxy

http://messagewall.org/

Looks like an interesting piece of code...

Virus scanning based on Open AntiVirus pattern files
DNS-based blacklist IP checking
DNS-based blacklist source address domain checking
DNS-based distributed checksum clearinghouse checking
Source address domain MX/A record checking
IP reverse DNS checking
To: header and destination address matching
From: header and source address matching
From: header real name checking
Arbitrary header rejection (case sensitive or insensitive)
Arbitrary body text rejection (after MIME decoding, case sensitive or insensitive)
MIME part filename matching
MIME part rejection by type
MIME part stripping by type
SMTP error counting and maximum

Global Persistant Data Store scaling to billions of users

http://oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/

WOW!

It provides a consistent, highly-available, and durable storage utility atop an infrastructure comprised of untrusted servers.

The Art of Software Development

http://www.devshed.com/Talk/Practices/SoftwareDev/SoftwareDev1/page1.html

An excellant KISS article/series on software development..

The Best Page in the Universe

http://maddox.xmission.com/

... just ask him...

Quite entertaining

3cm optical disk to hold 4Gb

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp;jsessionid=LCHBFHPDLIKP?id=ns99992930

The drive is 0.5 centimetres thick, 5.6 centimetres long and 3.4 centimetres wide.

Retail inside two years

Serial ATA switches - low-cost disk arrays

http://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20021015S0025

10-Gbit/second

1/5th the cost of Fibre Channel...

Former lead singer of Iron Maiden is now commercial airline pilot

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,812005,00.html

You've got to read this one... You get old, you become yer parents...

Natural Nuclear Reactors - 2B years ago

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021016.html

They've been studying remains of natural nuclear reactors from 2 billion years ago.

This site is labeled "Astronomy Picture of the Day". You should scan through some of the other pictures as they're quite interesting.

Survial Anniversary!

http://members.aol.com/PorkinsR6/alive.html

30 years ago this week the Uruguayan rugby players crashed in the Andes and gave new meaning to the pharse "bite my ass"...

AMD loses big

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/27658.html

Hope their projections are right or Intel will be the only choice left..

Jet Engine Locomotive

http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=%7B88E37B9A-2D44-4075-9BF2-FD847FD43CB7%7D

240kph

lighter, faster, more efficient

Duct Tape - The one True tool

http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/conditions/10/14/warts.duct.tape.ap/index.html

Duct tape better at removing warts that freezing with nitrogen!

Oh yeah..

For more useful tips see: http://www.ducttapeguys.com/

Cert based authentication -- no interest?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27588.html

The following quote covers it:

linux based tablet pc

http://www.mira2go.com/

for $600 even

... it is a closeout sale though.

The Micro PC

http://www.jadetec.co.uk/

Tom's Hardware review

3.5 lbs
up to 1G RAM
AMD/P4
SIS graphics (not 3D material)
2.5" HD (60G+)
CD/CD-RW/DVD/DVD-RW
~$2k

Science toys you can make with yer kids

http://scitoys.com/

Need some science experiments to perform with the kids to keep them out of trouble?

Interesting items:

do away with yer mouse and keyboard

http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/01-02/fingerworks092702.html

yet another hand job .... so to speak

new fuel-cell cars from Honda and Mercedes

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/10/09/fuelcell/index.html

some day..

The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies ....

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/focuson1002.asp

new body armor being developed, yes, it appears
to be a real place...

try this url out on yer fav web site

http://www.assotron.com/

GTSTA..

world's smallest web site

http://www.guimp.com/

don't blame me..

Wi-Fi and Ant colonies -- Emergent Systems

http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?art_id=60398&sec_id=35

Interesting article comparing the spread of Wi-Fi networks..

a parable of the languages

http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/000581.php

kind'a cute.. VB, C++, and the others stomping
XML into the dirt..

interesting paper on open source development teams

http://www.research.avayalabs.com/techreport/ALR-2002-003-paper.pdf

core team (< 15) does almost all the work

Tiers of folks supplying enhancments, fixes, and bug reports.

MC Escher in LEGO blocks

http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/escher/ascending.html

No idle time here!

how to blind cameras with laser pointer...

http://www.naimark.net/projects/zap/howto.html

privacy...?

blade server chop each other up!

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/19600.html

a little overview on the "bleeding" edge that
are blade servers...

M$ .NET content management server

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/19604.html

XML

web page personalization

publish directly from M$ Word

current state of content management systems

http://www.crmdaily.com/perl/story/15598.html

>From the CRM perspective, but, interesting
reading..

4 new Windows Security bulletins

http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1033692126

eleven vulnerabilities...

SQL server, HTML help facilities...

new generation of SST in the works

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/plane-sonic-02b.html

kinder, gentler...

Only have the sonic boom of an F-5E.

everyone should have a curling video game

http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20021004/gtcurl/Technology/techBN/

WOW!

Do you drink heavily while you play like
the real ones do it? ;-}

exchange PDA data via handshake

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5239758%255E13762,00.html

at 10 mps no less..

play DOOM on yer cell phone?

http://www.wildpalm.co.uk/Doom7650.html

If it takes 2M of RAM to play how capable
are these new phones anywhoo?

our dancing prez..

http://www.dancingbush.com/

If you need some cheap entertainment...

electric car that will do 180mph

http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~hiros/kaz/

looks even cooler than it sounds.

underwater robot technology

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/10/021003075710.htm

Cool new underwater glilders.

Generate power from heat change.

surface to 5000 feet.

stay under for 5 years..

scientists identify funniest jokes

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_683152.html?menu=news.quirkies

..

new 3D software available

http://www.intel.com/research/mrl/research/lfm/

looks interesting..

"Light field mapping is a method for efficient
representation and interactive visualization
of surface light fields. This method approximates
the radiance data by partitioning it over
elementary surface primitives and decomposing
each part into a small set of lower-dimensional
discrete functions. The resulting light field
represenation is compact and can be directly
used for hardware-accelerated rendering that
accurately conveys the physical realism of the
original data at interactive frame rates on a
personal computer. Additionally, our representation
can be further compressed using standard image
compression techniques leading to extremely compact
data sets that are up to four orders of magnitude
smaller than the uncompressed light field data. We
demonstrate the approximations for a variety of
non-trivial synthetic scenes and physical objects
scanned through 3D photography."

marry your grade school teacher?

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_682835.html?menu=news.quirkies

Someone actually did it!

a neat tool to graphically present your time-series data

http://www.rrdtool.com/

All you need is yer data points..

look at the gallery for some examples.

article on american rule.. or is it culture.

http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg092402.asp

Interesting article on the american/world view of
america..