Hardware
« Previous EntriesApollo 11 Apollo Guidance Computer
Monday, July 27th, 2009I came across an article on how someone built a copy of the 1964 prototype of the Apollo Guidance Computer (or AGC). It’s hard to compare these, which had a clock speed of 1.024 MHz (that was internal – the external signaling was half that), to modern desktop / laptops with speeds of [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisAlan Kay Computing History Overview
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009This is a great historical overview of the computer. Quite long video, but worth watching the first hour, with Alan showing how most ‘modern’ computing ideas had been invented and tested in labs in the 60s. Via the
Share on FriendFeed Tweet This10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud
Thursday, July 31st, 2008from gigaom…. To summarise,
It’s not secure. Certain companies and industries have to maintain strict watch on their data at all times, either because they’re legally obligated to or because they’re super paranoid.
It can’t be logged, required for compliance purposes.
It’s not platform agnostic. If you need to support multiple platforms, as most enterprises do, then you’re [...]
Custom Hardware Gadgets With BUG
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Bug Labs seems to have a very promising concept. The company allows you to order different hardware modules, like a camera, a screen, a touch sensitive device (some still in development) and so on. Then, you can stick these modules onto the base gadget, and via a Java-based programming environment, add your own functionality to [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet Thisnewsflash – X-BOX DRM sucks
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008From CodingHorror
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisSubmarine cables and Internet Availability
Monday, February 11th, 2008According to reports, the internet blackout, which left 75 million people with only limited access, was caused by a ship that tried to moor off the coast of Egypt in bad weather on Wednesday Jan 30. Both phone and internet traffic was severely reduced across a huge swath of the region, including India, Egypt [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisDisable the speaker beeps on Windows
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Aaron Tiensivu has posted the commands you need to know to shut off the Windows speaker beep temporarily or for all time.
To temporarily disable the PC Speaker beep:
net stop beep
To disable the PC Speaker beep for good (until you undo this setting):
sc config beep start= disabled
Now you don’t need to run out of the [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisAustralia – Myer loses exclusivity on eeePC
Monday, January 14th, 2008ASUS has announced that Myer has lost its exclusive position as the only retailer of the Eee PC in Australia. ASUS will now sell the bargain priced sub-notebook through Betta Electrical, David Jones, Good Guys, Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Myer, Officeworks, Retravision and WOW Sight & Sound.
Hacking the Eee PC
$499 Linux subnotebook to go mainstream
It’s [...]
Password Recovery using Geforce 8 Video Cards
Saturday, January 5th, 2008The software Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery was designed for distributed recovery of lost passwords by providing hardware acceleration for NTLM password recovery using GeForce 8 video cards which speeds up the process by a factor of up to 25).
The product comes at a price though which is only affordable to companies. I still thought [...]
Turn one PC into two for free
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008How do you like the sound of taking one machine, and having two people logged into it simultaneously? Sounds pretty neat to me – and it’s free too, which is always a tick in the right box.
Canadian company Userful markets Linux-based desktop multiplier and public access computing solutions – effectively turning one system into an [...]