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I was out running on the levee this morning and a small fishing boat zoomed by with a man and a small dog. I watched as the dog ran to the front of the boat, started barking and then turning in circles. The man immediately stopped the boat and dropped his fishing line into the water. The dog was still
A couple weeks ago I changed out my computer to a new Quad Core machine. I won't go into details because I talked about it in a previous post called Changing out to a new computer. Nonetheless, I have been impressed with the new functionality and possible energy savings that I am getting. It does get me to wondering -
My wife and I, contributing editor Nolan, are just 4 weeks away from moving to a developing country for at least a year of humanitarian work. So what about moving with technology? First off what is not making the move? Desktop computers and second monitors. Nope not going to make the suitcase. To much weight too much space. Television &
I love my GPS and use it whenever I’m going to a new place. Last night I had to go photograph a band at a small club in San Francisco so I programmed the address into my GPS. I also used it to get home since the one-way streets in San Francisco can be confusing at night. Like most users
The Australian Government has announced that they have scrapped the tender process for a company to build an FTTN network, and will instead build its own new network that will put fibre out to 90% of all Australian homes. This is a FTTP which means that apartments will be sharing access to the fibre rather than getting one each. Home
When the Steelers play the Cardinals this Sunday, 1 million are guaranteed to watch. That is why a Superbowl commercial is so expensive. But now, those 1 million people will include troops overseas. Global Broadcast Service, a satellite communications system, will be broadcasting the game over their systems. No matter where you are - desert, mountains or even underwater -
I have seen a number of mentions of a new thin client terminal by a company called Pano Logic. Their claim is to be the "future of desktop computing", to which they are focused more on the corporate than the home desktop. Thin client is essentially where corporate computing began, with all compute power centralised and users running from dumb