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… Read More »Terastation update
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… Read More »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… Read More »Philadelphia’s city-wide WiFi plans
Story on newly and soon to be available spectrum in the US
Working for a public school district, I found this article from the BBC interesting. I think they are right – in the end it’s the quality of service, not the method of delivery that is the most important.
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
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
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
Interesting story about a refrigerator-sized machine that would make “household items and gadgets, including kitchenware, cameras and even small musical instruments” out of metal or plastic. The cool thing, is that it would be able to make copies of itself… Read More »self-replicating rapid prototyper with a twist