I’ve got quite a few laptops laying around these days.  Every once and a while I get into a buying jag of surplus gear on EBay and bam suddenly the office is filled with a “like whoa” excess of something.
It’s cheaper than gambleing or drugs, okay?
*ahem* So, I”ve got one of the laptops up, rebuilt, […]

Anytime I hear that someone’s mounting an automated lazer system to zap things out of the sky I always get a little worried.  The thought occurs, wrong though it may be, that an automated system fast enough to blast out things flying at the planes could either:
A) Be tampered with to blast the actual plane
or
B) […]

Any time something weighing 2,000kg gets boosted into orbit it’s something of a spectacle. The fact that any of the rockets sent into space work is something I’ve always found astonishing. It’s a testament to good failover and cutout design, as there’s a vast array of things that can fail.
India seems to be […]

In a feat almost unheard of Microsoft is listening to it’s customers and taking steps to support ODF.
They’re sponsoring a French partner company to create a connector software that will allow saving to and reading from ODF files in MS Office.  And offering it with a BSD license.
The only baffling part is why it took […]

Alright. Maybe I’m just a little too nitpicky. To be fair, I don’t actually use Windows and haven’t for almost as long as it’s been available (long story.. used to use AmigaOS, briefly used Windows 95/98, then switched off to Unix/Linux/BSD). Although I can support it, as it runs on PCs and PCs […]

ICANN’s rulership of the internet is once again being brought up for redecision. In a nutshell
Currently, those domains are under the control of ICANN, which is in turn empowered to administer the directories under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with National Telecommuncations and Information Administration, a branch of of the United States Department of […]

The semi-annual (these days, leastways) HOPE conference (Hackers Over Planet Earth? HOtel PEnnsylvania? Who knows!) is coming up and I’ll once again be working network setup. Which is generally a fairly good time…
I’m intent on impressing upon whoever does the wireless this year that those little antenna thingies? They go up […]

One thing that’s always good for users is competition, and it looks like the push media industry might be seeing a bit more of it.
I’ve kept half an eye on the growing Verizon vs. the Cable Cos story going on, but someone with far more of an interest in it (Patrick) shot over a note […]

Apple looks to be as appauled as the rest of us that it’s allegedly outsourced it’s labor to a slaver like outfit. Will they make good on their promise to look into it?
Who knows. It’s always a good PR move to say that though, so you’ll forgive me for not holding my […]

Lead thinker Eugene Kaspersky over at  Kaspersky Labs has decided to raise the ever ready specter of the poor getting uppity.
We can’t send over end of life PCs to third world countries, he warns, because they’ll put them to nefarious ends like virus writing!
Not too much of the scare monger, eh?  Bet he even made […]