May 29, 2003

Secure Distributed Communications

WASTE is a software product and protocol that enables secure distributed communication for small (on the order of 10-50 nodes) trusted groups of users.

WASTE is designed to enable small companies and small teams within larger companies to easily communicate and collaborate in a secure and efficient fashion, independent of physical network topology.

GPL source is available.

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Posted by Steve at 08:38 AM

Aircraft Carrier for Sale

We've all wanted our own aircraft carrier!

For a measly $4.5 mill you can have one!

Room for 1300 of your closest friends (just don't tell them they'll have to crew too!

Posted by Steve at 08:17 AM

May 28, 2003

WiFi HotSpot in a Box!

Toshiba seems to have built a hotspot AP in a box!

Everything you need, except for the broadband connection...

Posted by Steve at 08:35 AM

CSS DeScramblers, in detail..

Everything you could ever want to be able to read your DVD's yourself!

Posted by Steve at 08:25 AM

May 27, 2003

Your own Sony Playstation 2 SuperCompuer

NCSA in Urbana has built a supercomputer from off the shelf Playstation 2 units!

.5 trillion ops /sec using 70 units..

Not interested in the MPU, instead, a graphics co-processor!

Posted by Steve at 02:26 PM

May 23, 2003

Worst Case of Poison Ivy?

This could be the worst case of Poison Ivy that I've seen...

WARNING: don't visit this page while yer eating..

Posted by Steve at 02:45 PM

Rotting Corpse scented Candles

Yep, next time you're watching your favorite old zombie flick you can pull and and crank up your favorite "rotting-corpse" scented candle.. or maybe the "graveyard" scent?

Posted by Steve at 01:17 PM

First Pix of Earth from Mars

Want to see the first pictures of the Earth that have been taken from Mars?

Posted by Steve at 12:37 PM

May 22, 2003

Rent a Segway!

If you want to test drive a Seqway before you buy you can always go out to Spokane for a test drive.

Posted by Steve at 03:58 AM

Sun Vulnerable to Takeover?

Is it possible that someone could take over SUNW?

Posted by Steve at 03:45 AM

How to make water flow up-hill...

Here's an Escher-like water fountain in which the water appears to flow up-hill.

I think I'm going to have to experiment here...

Posted by Steve at 03:40 AM

Shift Frequency of Light with near 100% Efficiency

Here's a cool article on Photonic Crystals and their use/ability to change light frequencies...

Implication? in optical networking you can pump frequencies down the fibre and when it becomes saturated at that frequency you can easily change to a new frequency.

They could also allow the medical community more easily replace x-rays with the spectrum between microwave and infrared.

Think light bulbs. If you want red light you can re-target all of the green-blue-whatever to red. You won't lose the energy, you'll just re-frequency it!

Posted by Steve at 03:37 AM

May 15, 2003

The WiFi Access Point in a light bulb..

Here's what we've always wanted!

A light bulb with an embedded WiFi AP!

The only question I've got is "does it only work at night?" ;-}

Posted by Steve at 09:44 AM

May 14, 2003

SONY Gameboy replacement

Wow...

SONY has announced their new handheld game platform!

Coming in late 2004

480x272 pixels

16x9 aspect ratio

USB 2.0

Stereo

MPEG4 (~3hrs in 512MB)

1.8GB optical disk

Guess all it needs is Wi-Fi.. and maybe some good batteries!

Posted by Steve at 10:38 AM

May 13, 2003

New IBM Mainframe

Wow! There's a new IBM Mainframe announced!

Code named T-Rex...

Hundreds of virtual linux boxes, partitioning on the fly... hey all this sounds familiar...

Posted by Steve at 03:41 PM