I guess everyone that has an interest in matters internet related already know that there is a new kid on the block in the search engine market. Go have a look at http://www.cuil.com if you haven’t done it yet. more....
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
Hack a day serves up a fresh hack each day, every day from around the web and a special how-to hack each week. Have fun reading, I certainly do.
Hack a Day
Modded C64 eye candy
GuruPlug, the next generation of SheevaPlug
ez430 home automation
Built-in hex editor unlocks plasma TV features
‘Mod in the USA’ N900 PUSH competition
FAT support for any microcontroller
Hackaday links: February 7, 2010
Putting on a show in the rain
Performance oddities
ExoPC shows off some guts
Altoids upstaged by gift card tins
Running bleeding edge on Nexus One
Interfacing with an analog joystick
Update: Adafruit Eagle library, now with Arduino
Hardware based randomness for Linux
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Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day
You may ask “What is a System Administrator?”
The answers you will find at http://www.sysadminday.com/ are as good as any. Being a System Administrator is a somewhat stressful job and turns you into a cynic very quickly (see http://www.sysadminday.com/time.html ) and you start hanging out in places like the scary devil monastery. Your (l)users also stop talking to you mainly out of fear of hearing the truth because the last time they complained about not getting e-mail you answered “Well, maybe nobody likes you anymore”
Continue reading ‘If you can read this, thank your sysadmin’
Yesterday Andrew McGill posted the message below on the Gauteng Linux User Group mailing list. Because he is not blogging I’m doing it for him. What he is describing is one of the biggest frustrations people have with so called new and improved software. more....
If you have a look at the page “Where I’ve been” you will see that I have traveled in most of Sub Saharan Africa. I travel in Africa for work, which is installing advertisement monitoring systems for one of my customers. more....
Slashdot
News for nerds, stuff that matters
Virtualizing a Supercomputer
bridges writes "The V3VEE project has announced the release of version 1.2 of the Palacios virtual machine monitor following the successful testing of Palacios on 4096 nodes of the Sandia Red Storm supercomputer, the 17th-fastest in the world. The added overhead of virtualization is often a show-stopper, but the researchers observed less than 5% overhead for two real, communication-intensive applications running in a virtual machine on Red Storm. Palacios 1.2 supports virtualization of both desktop x86 hardware and Cray XT supercomputers using either AMD SVM or Intel VT hardware virtualization extensions, and is an active open source OS research platform supporting projects at multiple institutions. Palacios is being jointly developed by researchers at Northwestern University, the University of New Mexico, and Sandia National Labs." The ACM's writeup has more details of the work at Sandia.
Depleted Cranium
Bad Science And Scary Science
Gas Fired Power Plant Exploded (so that’s what that was!)
Interestingly I was an observer to a disaster today without even knowing it.
My parents are out of town for a while and because I live quite near to them, I am staying at their home to take care of the dogs and keep down the fort. Their home is in Guilford CT, which is about [...]
The Facts About Diamonds (and why I don’t like De Beers)
In light of the upcoming Valentines Day holiday, when diamonds are often purchased as a means of telling your significant other how much you buy into media hype and advertisements, I thought it was about time I posted about some of the pervasive myths and the realities of diamonds. This post does contain some actual [...]
Why “Vehicle To Grid” is a horrible idea
In the near future, we may see a transition to an electric-based transportation system, specifically with electric vehicle drive trains and vehicles which drive on battery power, with or without an additional internal combustion engine to provide for extended range operation. This is already starting to happen with hybrid vehicles being produced by most manufactures [...]
So this is what skeptics believe, eh?
Natural News… GROAN. It’s that site that seems to put all the quackery, scaremongering and bad medical and enviornmental advice in one place. However one of the authors there thinks he has got skeptics all figured out, and knows exactly what we “skeptics” believe. Well, as a one who would generally consider myself a skeptic, [...]
Way to Go Australia: AVN IS DEAD
Why would you kick someone when they’re down? Simple – because you don’t want them to get back up again. While that may sound a bit cruel, if the one you’re kicking happens to be fond of spreading disease and death across your country, it’s actually about the most [...]
Will Pay $250 For Apollo-11 Television Still Photos
In one of the greatest losses of information in human history, eclipsed only by the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, it seems that the original tapes containing recordings of the unconverted vide0 from the Apollo-11 mission have most likely been destroyed. This probably occurred sometime in the late 1970’s or early 1980’s, although it [...]
When Old Does Not Mean Obsolete
Technology generally improves as time goes on and in addition to lacking new features, old technology is subject to years of wear and tear. This generally means that new systems are better, but that’s not a hard and fast rule. This is even more true considering that many older pieces of technology were “over-engineered,” literally [...]
Okay Mr. O, I’ll Give You Props on This One
Those who know me are probably aware that I’m not very happy with the current administration’s handling of the monetary system, government spending, domestic policy in general, buisiness regulations and many many other things. Politically, I’m pretty much a libertarian, at least to some degree. I tend to favor less social spending, less buisiness regulation [...]
The most awesome amateur project I’ve ever seen
Skilled amateurs have built some pretty amazing things – things you might expect to beyond the capacity of a private citizen. These include things like particle accelerators, nuclear fusion reactors (Farnsworth Fusors), radio telescopes, weather radar systems, robots of various types and sizes, aircraft and almost anything else you can think of.
Of all the amateur [...]
Andrew Wakefield: Disgraced, Unethical and An Outright Liar
We’ve reported before over the professional disgrace of Andrew Wakefield. Wakefield is one of the worst cases of everything a researcher and a physician should not be. With complete disregard for the safety and welfare of others and his own professional obligations Doctor Mister Wakefield has not simply cherry-picked or spun data in favor [...]
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