Right now I have a riding lawn mower. A beautiful John Deere L120 Lawn Tractor in fact. But all that riding and cutting is really tough because I am out in the heat. I would prefer to prop a chair up inside of the bay windows at the front of our house and cut the […]
Dana Blankenhorn writes about the coming change in politics from a cultural schism to a technological divide. If you follow my writings and screenshots you will see that I am strongly against proprietary operating systems and media. I use Linux to watch movies. As Microsoft and Apple follow the path of “trusted computing” which serve […]
Michael Parekh provides a great summary of a early 2005 speech by Bill Gates to the National Education Summit on High Schools:
Let me translate Mr. Gates’s words: “If we don’t fix American education, I will not be able to hire your kids.” I consider that, well, kind of important. Alas, the media squeezed a few […]
I am considering a new car this year or next. One of the big points to consider is fuel cost over the next few years. I believe that we will look back on the early 21st century as a time of cheap gas. With that in mind I am looking at the available and soon […]
BIOS Tech Guides has reviewed Dell’s brand-new low-cost laser printer. The printer is low cost but it delivers high performance and good print quality. There are some problems, no network connection, no auto duplexing, no MacOSX support and on 2MB of RAM. But for the price, this greyscale laser printer is tough to beat. Hopefully […]
Almir Heralic at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has created a cool little robot. It looks huge, but don’t be fooled by the picture. This little robot has full fluid movement, a neural net, speech functions and stereo vision coupled with facial recognition and tracking capabilities. Now how to get one? Oh, be […]
Here is a story that old Sendmail admins will love:
“I was working in a job running the campus email system some years ago when I got a call from the chairman of the statistics department.
“We’re having a problem sending email out of the department.”
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