You current CD writer too slow?
Then try this one.
52x
Firewire/USB 2.0/USB 1.1
$180
Here's a single port USB Print Server if you need/want one!
10/100 base t
supports IPP
supports DHCP
Oh baby!!!
This caffeinated soap thing is just scary!
I know a few folks who need soap, but, I wouldn't want them using this stuff!
Tired of racing the RC cars?
Upgrade to a tank.
Run over things.
Get two or more of them together and play laser tag!
Apparently some activists in Germany stole an elephant from a circus and the authorities can't seem to find it anywhere...
Oh dear! Watch where you step! ;-}
The fingerprint memory stick will be capable of certifying a user's identity using PKI.
Supposed to start shipping in Feb.
I haven't seen a memory stick reader that doesn't swallow the whole stick so I guess we'll have to put our fingers through some kind of roller to get it thin enough to go into the slot with the card... ;-} OK, fine, so they're working on a new reader....
Sounds like the Potato Bazooka is quite effective.
Range 200M.
Split a man's head at 15M
Punch through a wooden wall at 90M.
Hair spray and a piece of drain pipe...
Soon you won't be able to sneak up on anyone!
Cover an area with smart sensors that do some small amount of initial processing on sensor data and each layer aggregates what it's collected.
Probably will lead to highly specialized single chip sensor/processors.
Cool? or Scary?
Oh yeah!
British Ferret Mark 2/3 Armored Car - Tank
It can be yours today for $13,500!
Honda's new Asimo is on tour. Scheduled to be in DC in May.
If you haven't seen it it's pretty eerie... You can see movies on the Asimo web site.
I understand that ALL of the actions are pre-set programs. They've still got a long way to go. The batteries only last about 30 minutes. It does some recognition, but...
Tired of your quiet dull car?
Buy this new radio and you'll hear the sounds of a high-performance sports car!
In tune with your pedal actions.
Don't want a Ferrari? How about a Harley?
All coming out of noise-cancelling research.
Amazon has the SMC Networks SMC7004VWBR Barricade Wireless 4-Port Cable/DSL Router for $60!
Wow!
For you Java programmers some of the JUnit developers have completely rewritten it.
It's free, it's open source.
and it'll work with any JUnit stuff you have already.
Here's a step-by-step on how to get your DVD contents into Windows Media Video file format.
At the end of the article is a pointer to another article on how to edit and do other things with your video file...
Fun fun fun!
Yep inflatable space habitats.
Lower weight.
Just as strong.
Send em up on a rocket. Fill em with air. Voila!
Just as long as I don't have to blow it up!
Oh yeah!
Grab a couple of nodules out of the vat and have instant nuggets! or grind them up and make yer burgersssss
If only I could just grow Porterhouses.... ;-}
Cain't wait! ;-}
More fun things to do and play with using your digital camera.
More links:
A Guide for New Stereo Photographers
Pictures done by others:
Stereoscopic Photography of Flowers in Japan
High Quality Stereopictures
Celebrity Stereo Photography
Of course you can search Google and get 10 pages worth of links.
The red laser in current dvd recorders gives us 4.7GB, but, Hitachi is coming out with a recorder using a blue laser that will give 27GB on a single layer.
That's enough for 13 hours of standard TV.
Wonder how long it takes to do backups to it... ;-}
Really it's using the Ziv-Lempel (Zip) compression algorithm.
Zip finds redundant strings so you can figure out how many times strings are used.
This article talks about pulling down messages from spamassassin.com and running them through gzip and doing a character count (wc -c) on the gziped file.
Interesting.
Here's an interest article whose title Why VHS was better than Betamax caught my eye.
It has some reference to the old DAT vs Cassette and also about why the WinTel is so successful.
Here's the perfect geek SUV concept car from Honda.
17" LCD in the dashboard.
Run by Mac OS X.
Oh yeah, there's the 42" gas plasma screen that folds down from the ceiling in the back...
or maybe it's the 800 watts of power to the 11 speakers...
drool drool..
;-}
The Washington Post talks about it.
This guy talks about it too (if you don't want to go to the post)..
Anybody get beat up by the latest DoS attack?
Apparently it took out several of the root servers.
If you're not seeing the blip, I've saved the main page on my site for posterity.
Of course they consider cross-platform to be:
"... Currently Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD are officially and fully supported.
Additionally, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Compaq Tru64..."
Ah gotta love the unix crowd!
I like this guy.
His experiences mirror my own.
Maybe that's why I seem to go back to BSD... or Solaris. ;-}
They're planning on doing away with their proprietary OS and moving to Linux.
Samsung and Phillips may be joining them.
There's a new roller coaster that's 420 feet high and hits speeds of 120 MPH!
Road trip anyone?
Apparently some geek didn't get enough Vitamin C in his diet..
An interesting article, well actually a set of articles, whereby you can start with one working key and some blanks and end up with a master key for all the locks in a building....
It'll warm yer heart!
;-}
That's right there's prior art from 1945 describing hypertext linking.
Wow.
That's what they say they're doing.
Used a standard inkjet printer with cell solution instead of ink and put down layer after layer to create the organ in 3D...
Starting with mini-me's for drug testing and going on to full sized later on.
No wonder there are so many techies unemployed...
Amazing stats on the "flood".
Lot's to look forward to when you get your new Itanium server...
;-}
Miracle of modern technology allows man's head (only attached by spinal cord) to be reattached to his body.
Ish.
Interesting article on the evolution of dinosaurs learning to fly.
Read about the latest from Spam conference in Boston.
Going to use electro magnets to dock ships...
Well this price at MicroWarehouse.com may be in error but...
$299.95 for SERVER with the following features:
- 566MHz Intel® Celeron® processor
- 128MB PC100 ECC SDRAM
- One EIDE controller
- 20GB 4200 RPM hard drive
- Ethernet WAN Port (10/100 auto-sensing)
- 56K modem
- Operating system based on Red Hat Version 7.0
- Dimensions (WxDxH): 13.4 in x 10.6 in x 2.7 in
- Uplink, firewall protection, 128-bit encryption, auto-sensing
per device, DHCP support, NAT support, manageable
- Hard Drive: 1 x 20 GB 2.5" Standard IDE/ATA
- Built in 8-port switch
- PC card slot (put wireless in here!)
- Power: AC 100/240 V ( 50/60 Hz )
- Processor: 1 x Intel Celeron 566 MHz
- Product Description: Toshiba Magnia SG20 - web server
- RAM Installed ( Max ): 128 MB ( 512 MB ) - SDRAM
- Remote Management Protocol: SNMP
- Weight: 11 lbs
Many have suspected that the devil == M$!
Maybe here's the proof!
Hey check out the Snake Robots project!
A National Geographic article to go along with it!
Cool stuff.
Here's a new shell script toy for you to use to play with your WiFi and your linux box!
Have fun!
Microsoft has been ordered to ship Java in 120 days!.
Of course the news.com article doesn't mention anything about a version...
Well, it looks like you'll want to replace your wireless network with 802.11g as you get a 50% performance increase over a mixed 11b/11g network.
Interest editorial in Computerworld about building OS versus user expectations.
Will we start seeing software built from user's needs drilling down to hardware? or will be continue building from the hardware up?
How would it be done?
If you're a map geek you'll be interested in seeing these historic topological maps.
Fun to look at. Cool wallpaper.
Wiley InterScience has made the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering on-line and is making it available... for a price that is!
Annual subscription for a single user is $325! It looks like that price is good for up to 1000 full-time employees, then it goes up to $655.
Wouldn't buying the book be more cost effective? Amazon's got it listed at $695...
NASA's working on a new rocket fuel that is parafin based and has by-products of CO2 and water... and you can turn in on and off...
Cool! Maybe we can make it work in planes, trains and automobiles... ;-}
Here's something you can do with your kids and help them develop problem solving skills...
Have fun!
Here's a site that can supply you with everything you need to set up your own low power FM station!
Need ideas?
... How about play those 160GB worth of MP3's that you've sucked up?
... and maybe interrupt to read you an important email (or voice mail) message that has arrived?
... or news headlines on the hour
All while you're outside in the garden, or working on your car, etc.
Could be fun and useful too!
New robot navigation technology!
Could significantly reduce the cost of the robots finding their way around!
Cool little detector that you can use to sniff out wi-fi signals!
Yep, SCO is wanting $96/cpu licenses from ALL linux users....
Not a done deal yet but they seem to keep coming back to it!
Should be fun!
Paul Allen's company Vulcan has a new pc.
It's about the size of a paperback book.
800x400
20g HD
wireless
USB 4 hour battery
Yep, the army is working on a version of the patch that will deliver nutrients!
Actually looks like the technology has lots of potential non-military applications too.
Check out this website that has images of interesting newspaper clippings, poorly thought out packaging, photographs, road signs, etc.
Things like the package that advertises:
"2 liter (contains 50% more than 1 liter)"
Go and check out the Hoax Museum!
Lot's of neat stuff out there.
Can you tell men from women?
Maybe, maybe not.
Take this quiz!
ish.
Yep it's true.
An enzyme in their saliva that causes the blood to flow easier is being studied to see if will break apart the blood clots that cause the damage.
Frequent drinking can reduce risk of heart attacks by one third!
They say that all it takes is 1/2 a drink every other day!
So, does that mean that 1 drink every day should eliminate the risk? ;-}
Get yer own high-speed 802.11g wireless access point that works with 802.11b for only $139!
Cheeze wiz... ;-}
Haven't had any news from Canada in a while!
Billy Van star of the cheese-horror Canadian TV classic "The Hilarious House of Frightenstein," has died of cancer at 68.
Want to make yer own fireworks?
Well here's the place to get ALL your supplies.
Have fun, let me know if you do anything!
Some of the chemicals can be used with parafin/pine cones to make blue and green colored flames in your fireplace!
Build your devices layer by layer, and put down the electronics at the same time!
3D models, only they're functional!
Be afraid!
The herndon/reston cops are doing sobriety test IN bars and restaurants and arresting people for being public drunks and throwing them in jail!
Guess they're not getting their quotas on drunk driving or something!
Here's a tool that will let you verify that your VPN is secure...
From the article:
"According to animal studies, Ritalin and cocaine act so much alike that they even compete for the same binding sites on neurons."
Interesting read...
Yes indeed!
Thatch Cay (230 acres) in the Virgin islands is for sale on Ebay!
Well, well, well!
Network Associates has acquired Deersoft (creators of SpamAssassin!
More branches in the tree and maybe a namechange for the open source version...
Of course it's an Apple powerbook... ;-}
1440x900
superdrive (write DVD's)
802.11G (54 mbps wireless)
4.5 hour battery life
1 inch thin...
Only $3200 smackers!
Hey!
Every body needs to go to this site and sign up for your $5-$20 anti-trust settlement.
Don't need receipts, just fill in the blanks!
Just what we need... a new Cadillac ;-}
Somebody must still have some cash out there!
You know that every time Apple seems to be poised to expand their market share they find some goofy way to mess it up!
Looks like they're going to start charging for upgrades to stuff...
I sometimes wonder if they do it to stay below M$ radar...
Sheesh
If you like to read, on planes, in bed but don't get the light you want, where you want it and don't like those itty-bitty-book-lite things you might find this one interesting.
The LightWedge works via light comes from the side through an acrylic lens that lays over the page and evenly illuminates the entire page.
Plug this color camera into your ethernet hub!
Control it from your pc, pan and tilt capable!
Indoor/Outdoor, wired/wireless...
Control and view up to 4 cameras at the same time..
Apparently with Mac OS X you can encrypt directories....
Can this be done on Solaris or Linux or ?BSD?
Service started in September to give cruise ships and yachters WiFi access!
$500 a month! yow
Who'd a thunk it!
All sorts of possibilities envisoned.
Interesting roundup on what's happening in the robot world!
An interesting article on a server that could not send email more than 500 miles.
Interesting read and debug session.... Some of you will know the answer... Some won't... but you'll find it interesting..
They're making progress in producing ionizer technology to remove airborne bacteria in hospitals!
Coming soon to an ATM near you... a fingerprint scanner!
If a rat's brain is running a robot does that make him a truly bionic rat?
Y'all might be interested in an embedded SQL database engine, written in C with bindings for most languages that you use!