Wired has a great story about how four high school students built an underwater robot for $800 and beat the pants off of engineering students from the likes of MIT and their $11,000 robot. A great read – definitely worth… Read More »High School students’ “Stinky” robot beats MIT in underwater bot championship
Wired has a great story about how four high school students built an underwater robot for $800 and beat the pants off of engineering students from the likes of MIT and their $11,000 robot. A great read – definitely worth… Read More »High School students’ “Stinky” robot beats MIT in underwater bot championship
Very simple clear instructions for using a USB Drive with ZENworks Imaging. Worked for me, although on some machines I had to replace “MOUNT /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd” with “MOUNT /dev/sda4 /mnt/usbhd” or sometimes /dev/sda3.
The BBC reports on the cost of not shutting computers off when not in use – “”Most people could easily save “£100 a year and a small-to-medium sized company should easily cut “£5,000 off its bills just by following our… Read More »Power-hungry PCs cost users
Consumer’s Union (publisher of Consumer Reports) has released their annual report on complaints against cell carriers. The data seems to match my experiences – with Cingular, we have had few billing issues, but have had a fair number of service… Read More »Cell-phone complaints: A sorry picture for Cingular/AT&T
KDDI and Hitachi Systems and Services have teamed up to bring “micro-VNC” to KDDI’s au phones. I’ve played around with VNC on palm/pocket pc’s and found it barely useable. I’m not sure what benefit porting it to a cell phone… Read More »VNC via cell phone
A mind boggling (for some) puzzle. It took me 2 days to figure it out – with substantial hints from my wife, who figured it out on her 2nd try.
my brains hurt!
“Novell to deliver new product features, 10-year extended support commitment and pre-bundled Linux with upcoming version of leading collaboration product” At this week’s BrainShare conference, Novell made some nice announcements about GroupWise. Announced upcoming features are: enhanced client code for… Read More »Novell Announces Enhancements for GroupWise
News.com reports on the HP lawsuits against Rhinotek and InkCycle. Looks like now HP is just using it’s patent arsenal to force refillers to list their cartridges as “used” and “refilled” – which only seems fair, as it allows consumers… Read More »HP sues ink refillers