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GO BADGERS That was the post Adam Wilson made to Twitter by using only his brain. Wearing a special red cap fitted with electrodes that connected to a computer flashing letters, by concentrating on the letters he wanted, Wilson was able to Twit the small message on the screen in front of him. What this means for the rest of
Every day, it seems, when I boot up my computers, each one wants me to update iTunes and add Safari. It doesn't matter how many times I say no, and click quit, every day the stupid install window keeps coming back up. And there is no way to permanently turn this off. At least, not that I've found. Java wants
I'm starting to put my list together for Santa for the holidays. Yes, Geeks can have dreams too! Starting off, I've already purchased some things for the kids, including Sansa 8 gb MP3 players. These sweet little units are as powerful as the iPod without the costly risk of replacement when they get banged around too much. While I would
So the other day I walked into a shop to do some repairs. They had an in-house techie that put together their systems, but had no formal training. The kid was on vacation, so I walked in to fix an important program. What I found was less than acceptable. The wireless was open, the computers firewalls were off and their
China's answer to next generation optical discs has fnally had its first production line opened and earned itself a new name. CBHD (China Blue High-definition Disc) was developed in China by Shanghai United Optical Disc. It has some advantages over BluRay, mainly in the cost area. It is cheaper to license, and less than one third the cost to gear
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VMWare has just announced its new version of ESX server, 3i. They only mention, in the info out to date, that the new hypervisor “..is an extension of the hardware.” This is actually much more geeky cool than it seems and represents a large step forward in virtualisation. They are not the only company to have this, Xen is one example of open source embedded hypervisors which appear to do similar things to ESX 3i. My purpose is not to compare virtualisation technology though.