Monthly Archives: April 2005

Terastation update

My earlier post on the Buffalo TeraStation has been one of the biggest draws to my blog to date. Obviously a lot on interest on it! At least, enough for someone to set up a Wiki on hacking (or working with open-source firmware ) it at http://terastation.org. As they posted in my comments “Nothing much [...]

"I have more friends now"

In the fine tradition of the Mac “switch” campaign, I can across this Linux switch ‘ad’. Some of the other animations are fun as well. Tweet

Essays marked by computer program

The University of Missouri is testing a program called Qualrus, that scores student essays. Sounds like it will save teaching staff a lot of time, but how long is it until the students develop a program that writes essays Qualrus likes? Tweet

Philadelphia’s city-wide WiFi plans

Looks like Philadelphia’s going ahead with it’s city-wide WiFi plans after all. I know my city has been holding off vendors for over 7 years now – long before 802.11 was standarized. Our bigger neighbor to the northwest, however saw value and executed on it. I hear it’s very nice! Tweet

Philadelphia’s city-wide WiFi plans

Looks like Philadelphia’s going ahead with it’s city-wide WiFi plans after all. I know my city has been holding off vendors for over 7 years now – long before 802.11 was standarized. Our bigger neighbor to the northwest, however saw value and executed on it. I hear it’s very nice! Tweet

Interesting take on the “Open Source War”

eSchool news has an interesting editorial on the “Open Source War” between Linux and Microsoft. Food for thought… Tweet

Interesting take on the “Open Source War”

eSchool news has an interesting editorial on the “Open Source War” between Linux and Microsoft. Food for thought… Tweet

Setting up a Linux NFS Install Source for Your LAN

Great howto on setting up a Linux NFS Install Source for SUSE Linux. Aimed a relative Linux newbies (ie: I understood it….) Tweet

Two-User PC – a nice fit for schools?

CRN has an interesting story on how VARs are selling schools PCs with additional video cards and using Win XP’s multiple user sessions have two users use the PC at the same time. Microsoft seems fuzzy on the legality of doing it this way, but it’s an interesting way to stretch a thin tech budget. [...]

M&M’s Chocolate Mpire

A fun clip – M&Ms move to the “dark” side of the force. Tweet