Car runs on compressed Air
From the files of I wish I would have thought of that. A French company has come up with a car that travels at 65mph for 140 miles on compressed air. Talk about a virtually free commodity and non-polluting. [BBC]
From the archive
September 2002
42 posts
Hoaxes and the Internet
These hoaxes all have one thing in common. Can you spot it? See if you can figure out which ones are the hoaxes and drop me a comment. Todd..
Digital TV Where is it headed
"Government leaders are motivated to switch to digital TV largely by economics. The sooner broadcasters switch to digital signals, the sooner they will be required to return billions of dollars' worth of analog TV spectrum, which the government plans to auction off for other uses, probably wireless services. Some critics say the government is pushing a technology that consumers don't
Great XP Tutorial
Very good info about XP and some of the best software solutions for your software collection. Notice GeekNewsCentral does not condone the use of illegal copies of software sites should be used for educational process only and not be abused.
Bit by bit, digital freedom disappears
I had a interesting article forwarded to me that makes me more convinced than ever that you better hold on to all older versions of software and operating systems and have hardware to run it on as with time technology is going to own us and we will no longer be in control of technology. With new chips being designed
Something to Think About
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, theyquickly discovered that ball-point pens would notwork in 0 gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surfaceincluding glass and at temperatures ranging from belowfreezing to over 300 C. The Russians used a pencil.
RIAA Internal E-mail and Proff it’s a original
I found the links to this article over at scripting news so all credit goes to them. Here are the two quotes from scripting news and links to the stories. "Great email from the RIAA's Hillary Rosen to execs at Yahoo, Real, AOL and Microsoft, on how to crack down on the millions of Morpheus and Kazaa users. Is this
Bandwidth Place
I was reading my daily Lockergnome newsletter and they referenced a site that is pretty amazing. If you are into Internet technology and were connectivity is headed along with information on current technology you will want to take a stroll over to this site. It has been added to my favorites list. [www.bandwidthplace.com]
Fark
If you are looking for the obscure these guys do a great job and have daily links and information worth re-visiting. I highly recomend the site and hope you enjoy what the have to offer. www.fark.com
Limited Connectivity
Hi folks Just when I think I have all my loose ends tied up my Internet connectivity is going to be limited for a little bit so I will be sending out updates every few day versus every day.. Thanks for your patience.
Web Servers and How They Work
I have been running web servers and offering computing services a long time but I realize some of you out there have no idea what is happening nor how a web server really works. Th guys over at "HowStuffWorks" have a great article. Be sure to visit the rest of the site as you will see he has a lot
Team Computing
The Seti project uses it and they have been very successful. Weird things happen from time to time. Today I was trying to figure out how to load share a couple of our servers that get hard every night doing some mundane task that helps keep the PC's running at top performance. The issue is the mundane task take about
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