Friday, October 31, 2003
Rounded cables are a piece of cake
Thursday, October 30, 2003
morons.org - I Love the British
Slashdot | Info Glut - Five Exabytes of Data Created in 2002
SFF offerings at Computex 2003
A Slashdot article pointing to SFF-Tech review of lots of machines, cases and other mini-ITX type things.
To aid quick viewing I have put links (in my own order) to all parts in this list :
To aid quick viewing I have put links (in my own order) to all parts in this list :
- Intro
- Conclusion
- Shuttle
- VIA
- MSI
- IWill
- LEX
- Hush Technologies
- Casetronics
- Biostar
- Soltek
- Soyo
- AOpen
- Gigabyte
- Jetway
- EPoX
- ECS (Elitegroup)
- Asus
- Abit
- FUR
- Chyang Fun
- Sumicom
- Saintsong
- Pretech
- Freetech
- Tsunami
- Sunnyview
- Commell
- Insight Solutions
- First International Computer (FIC)
- Evalue Technology Inc
- Freetech Corp
- Mapower Electronics
- Protech Systems
- Norhtec
- Wincomm
- Beantech
- Morex (Procase)
- Joyance
Slashdot | Should Hackers Get Their Own Logo?
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Slashdot | New Optical Chip Claims 8 Trillion Operations/sec.
Boffins begin to bug bugs
Use of insects (as well as other animals) noted in a Register article about DARPA and other projects.
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Moto peddles world’s most integrated handset chip
Monday, October 27, 2003
BBC NEWS | Technology | How spammers are targeting blogs
Guardian - All change at King's Cross-St. Pancras
Nice article about the major engineering works for the new high-speed channel tunnel link plus all the other work going on.
Good links to relevant sites.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | All change
Good links to relevant sites.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | All change
Sunday, October 26, 2003
Windows RG
An amusing Flash location with a neatly interactive version of Windows - crashes a lot - there's a surprise.
Here's a link to it
And another site that gives a full-screen version as well.
Here's a link to it
And another site that gives a full-screen version as well.
Firm claims X86 Open Source storage utility to slash network costs
Slashdot | The 'Perfect Space Storm' Of 1859
Saturday, October 25, 2003
Slashdot | Augmented Astronauts Needed for Deep Space Missions
Slashdot | Germany Publishes Windows to Linux Migration Guide
Slashdot | Paterson's Worms Solved by Number-Crunching
Think of Conway's Game of Life - then go a bit further - worms.
Slashdot | Paterson's Worms Solved by Number-Crunching
Slashdot | Paterson's Worms Solved by Number-Crunching
Friday, October 24, 2003
Pizza Hut advert
Lee Maguire: webslog - 2003-05-22
About SMTP and what to do about spam - Lee Maguire: webslog - 2003-05-22
Stealth PCs all the rage | CNET News.com
Thursday, October 23, 2003
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Revised table of atoms proposed
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Slashdot | Home Brew Hard Drive Silencer/Cooler
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Web venture to bring arts alive
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Bell rings in new phone gallery
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Slashdot | VIA-based Mobile Robot Design For Download
Slashdot | How Not To Install Computer Hardware
Monday, October 20, 2003
BBC NEWS | Technology | German chatty bot is 'most human'
Slashdot | Seven Years of KDE Celebrated
Sunday, October 19, 2003
Slashdot | What Is The Most Popular OS in the World?
Slashdot | Adobe Makes Products Harder to Use, More Expensive
Slashdot | Adobe Makes Products Harder to Use, More Expensive
This thread does sum up the free vs commercial (expensive) software argument. There's a good reply part the way in that refutes almost every reason for using the GIMP (compared to Adobe Photoshop). All very good points that come down to ... "it works right out of the box".
Much the same can be said about the current state of the school network - it may be using 'free' s/w but it isn't working - not even comared to the old Windows '95 system we had.
This thread does sum up the free vs commercial (expensive) software argument. There's a good reply part the way in that refutes almost every reason for using the GIMP (compared to Adobe Photoshop). All very good points that come down to ... "it works right out of the box".
Much the same can be said about the current state of the school network - it may be using 'free' s/w but it isn't working - not even comared to the old Windows '95 system we had.
Slashdot | 7th World Solar Challenge Underway
Saturday, October 18, 2003
Slashdot | Build Your Own Electronic Key Card Lock
Slashdot | Taipei 101 Now World's Tallest Building
Thursday, October 16, 2003
CNEWS Weird News - Mistletoe has fascinating history besides kissing under it at Christmas time
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Meccano mod your drive bay, baby
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Slashdot | Happy 3rd Birthday To OpenOffice.org
Slashdot | What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using?
Via introduces seven watts tiny 1GHz X86 chip
Slashdot | Boot a CD and Make Your X-Box Join the Cluster
Guardian Unlimited | Today's issues | Blue Peter
Monday, October 13, 2003
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Getting lost in the translation
BBC NEWS | Technology | Web guru fights info pollution
Sony's toddler robot makes strides | CNET News.com
Sunday, October 12, 2003
The future's bright, the future's thin
Seymour Cray's gone, but not forgotten
Saturday, October 11, 2003
Slashdot | MiniGui, GPL'ed Qt/Embedded Alternative
Slashdot | How a Computer Case Is Built
Public Whip - Counting votes on your behalf
A rather excellent site by which to monitor and check MPs voting habits - and other info.
Public Whip - Counting votes on your behalf
Public Whip - Counting votes on your behalf
Thursday, October 09, 2003
BBC NEWS | Magazine | The Limerick Challenge
Slashdot | Mars Sundials - True Colors, Ambiguous Hours
Slashdot | A Cluster Of Pocket PCs
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Slashdot | What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard?
Slashdot | Hard Drive Capacity Confusion, Lucidly Explained
Monday, October 06, 2003
Slashdot | Hitchhiker's Guide Movie Greenlighted
Saturday, October 04, 2003
Jason Roberts CV
Not your usual sort of CV though - Jason Roberts CV
Friday, October 03, 2003
Slashdot | Arcade ROMs for Download, Legally
Thursday, October 02, 2003
Slashdot | Earth Simulator Now Predicting Hurricanes?
Slashdot | Is Google's Future: Star Trek?
Slashdot | More on E-textiles: Electronic Smart Fabric
