Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
The only reason I bring this story to your attention is a little throw-away line near the bottom: “The group is experimenting with a device that uses cows to generate power to charge its battery.” I’m just wondering how they’re planning to do that. If they wanted to use some kind of kinetic energy generator, …
Continue reading ‘“$188 laptop faces production delay, shortage”’ »
I’m not sure what happened last night, but when I got up this morning, my development system was showing the log-in screen. I leave it running overnight, so that it can do it’s daily backups, so the screen should have been in low-power mode, and once awakened it should have been on the system-locked screen, …
An associate and I have been using Pidgin (formerly GAIM), with the Off The Record (OTR) plug-in, to securely collaborate on Project X. Although OTR worked, there were times that it didn’t work very well… longer messages got errors instead of being transmitted properly, and some days it didn’t seem to want to work at …
We’ll get that Dick Tracy watch down to a usable size sooner or later. 🙂
E-mail is a wonderful invention. I’ve been using it since 1987 or thereabouts, when one of my uncles gave me a 300 baud acoustic modem that I could plug into my Sinclair QL, and I discovered the local FidoNet node. However, this wonderful innovation started becoming a burden about a decade ago — that’s when …
My company is still on contract to help out with a program we developed, which another company bought a few years ago. I’ve spent part of the last two weeks working with that company’s lead programmer, trying to track down a minor but particularly pernicious intermittent bug involving TCP/IP, multithreading, and what seemed to be …
Continue reading ‘Multithreaded Programs on Multiprocessor Systems’ »
Another Windows Vista love note. Wake up, Microsoft!
Darn, I missed the free public tasting yesterday.
Apparently women don’t care for pink tech toys, despite the fact that it has been proven that girls prefer pink. Of course, I’m writing this just after GoddessJ picked up a pair of pink ear-bud headphones for her new MP3 player. Apparently she’s one of the 9% of women who do like pink tech toys.
I have the distinct impression that when they figure out why the reference kilogram is losing weight, it will turn out to be one of the most significant scientific finds of the twenty-first century.