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Laptop with 6.8GHz processor with 1TB RAM and 2TB storage (is it April 1st?)
September 07, 2005
Atom Chip Corporation is promising a laptop, the AtomChip® SG220-2 that will have a 6.8GHz processor, 1TB RAM, and 2TB storage. The processor will be Atom Chip's "AtomChip Quantum II processor with 256MB on-board memory" (apprently x86 compatible) which has...
Gearhead links for "Remote pings and remote control"
September 06, 2005
The following items were referred to in the Gearhead column titled "Remote pings and remote control" published on 9/5/05: PingPlotter home page -- http://www.pingplotter.com/ TightVNC home page -- http://www.tightvnc.com/ "Catching Up With Upgrades", Gearhead 03/03/03 -- http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2003/0303gearhead.html NetOp home page...
Another insane patent, this time, for insanity
August 30, 2005
Sanity system for video game "Abstract: A video game and game system incorporating a game character's sanity level that is affected by occurrences in the game such as encountering a game creature or gruesome situation. A character's sanity level is...
Web site of the week.
August 19, 2005
John Richards may be the only man in America, possibly in the world, to have his own crotch cam. Disturbed? Possibly. Amusing? Almost....
Gearblog News for week 34
August 18, 2005
Headlines: Finally Got Their Attention Dept.: The Zotob worm has got more publicity than it deserves for a simple reason: "During several hours Tuesday afternoon [Keynote Systems] saw download times for ABC and ESPN increase from their normal 2 to...
Gearhead links: "DesktopX, Dashboard, Konfabulator"
August 15, 2005
The following items were referred to in the Gearhead column titled "DesktopX, Dashboard, Konfabulator" published on 8/15/05. Stardock DesktopX "DesktopX marks the spot", Network World, 12/15/03 DesktopX Developer's Guide Apple OS X Dashboard Dashboard widget development Konfabulator 'Yahoo! acquires Konfabulator",...
Gearhead Links: "Stormy weather software"
August 08, 2005
The following items were referred to in the Gearhead column titled "Stormy weather software" published on 8/8/05. StormPredator Microsoft Virtual PC for Macs NEXRAD Radar network The Weather Underground The Weather Underground Radar FAQ...
Ethics and entertainment
August 04, 2005
Good arstechnica article on Sony's two recent ethical lapses (their fictional movie reviewer who gave the thumbs up" on several of Sony's recent bad movies and Sony's habit of using payola)....
How many blogs?!
August 03, 2005
"As of the end of July 2005, Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links. Interestingly, this is just about double the number of blogs that we were tracking 5 months ago." -- from State of...
Gearhead Links: "More syncing and a back-up solution"
August 01, 2005
The following items were referred to in the Gearhead column titled "More syncing and a back-up solution" published on 8/1/05. Gearhead: "Syncing with FolderShare" 07/25/05 BeInSync Iomega Rev product line Automatic Backup Pro Iomega REV 35GB/90GB USB 2.0 external...
Gearhead Links: "Days of Winrot and OS what-not"
The following items were referred to in the Gearhead column titled "Days of Winrot and OS what-not" published on 8/22/05. Apple Developer Transition Kit OSx86 homepage PearPC homepage Installing Darwin under PearPC Installing Jaguar under PearPC Installing Panther under...
Gearhead Links: "PingPlotter gets even better"
The following items were referred to in the Gearhead column titled "PingPlotter gets even better" published on 8/29/05. PingPlotter home page "It's a plot I tell you!", Gearhead 06/25/01 Red Bull PingPlotter v2.7 new features...
Backspin Links: "Michael Lynn and Cisco: Stepping in front of the freight train"
The following items were referred to in the Backspin column titled "Michael Lynn and Cisco: Stepping in front of the freight train" published on 8/1/05. Stephen Cobb bio Black Hat Briefings conference "Security researcher causes furor by releasing flaw in...
Red Hat Magazine
July 26, 2005
July issue out. Most interesting article: Open source high-availability clustering....
Gearhead Links: "Syncing with FolderShare"
July 25, 2005
The following items were referred to in the Gearhead column titled "Syncing with FolderShare" published on 7/25/05. Jim SourceForge search for "synchronization OR synchronize" FolderShare FolderShare subscription plans Additional Notes: ByteTaxi made some interesting decisions to ensure that synchronization problems...
Gearhead Links: "Phone fixes"
July 18, 2005
The following links were referred to in the Gearhead column titled "Phone fixes" published on 7/18/05. RCA Wireless Modem Jack Model 926 RCA Wireless Modem Jack Model 930 Phonex Easy Jack Radio Shack Wireless Phone Jack System Gearhead "Networking your...
Backspin links: "A new theory with consequences"
The following links were included the Backspin column titled "A new theory with consequences" published on 7/11/05: MGM vs. Grokster (EFF archive) MGM vs. Grokster Supreme Court decision (PDF) 'Net Buzz: "Wisdom 9, Grokster 0" By Paul McNamara, NW, 07/04/05...
Gearhead Links: "FrankenTiVo"
July 11, 2005
The following links were included the Gearhead column titled "FrankenTiVo" published on 7/11/05: Google search for TiVo problems with Vonage Cisco Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) ISO image of the PTVnet Software CD from PTVupgrade Purchase a preloaded drive from PTVupgrade...
Gearhead Links: "MPEG, camera, USB!"
July 04, 2005
The following links were included the Gearhead column titled "MPEG, camera, USB!" published on 7/4/05: Nisis Supacam DV6 CompactFlash Association Ulead VideoStudio Ulead Photo Express 4.0 SE Ulead 360 USB Implementers Forum Hi-Speed USB FAQ...
Backspin links: "Open source has to wear a tie"
The following links were included the Backspin column titled "Open source has to wear a tie" published on 7/4/05: "Sustaining Open Source Benefits" webcast Dr. Ernest Prabhakar Apple Computer, Inc. Peter Burris Appergy...
Blog convergence to "total solutions"
June 28, 2005
We just got a press release announcing the latest version of Manila from UserLand Software. Manila 9.5 "includes powerful new features like versioning and access control as well as a large number of other improvements and bug fixes" and, as...
Gearhead Links: “Lights, camera, MPEG!”
June 27, 2005
The following links were included the Gearhead column titled “Lights, camera, MPEG!” published on 6/27/05: Motion Picture Experts Group MPEG FAQ MPEG-4 documentation DivX Doom9.net codec FAQ...
More patent insanity: A domain name registration patent
June 02, 2005
U.S. Patent No. 6,901,436 granted May 31, 2005 to Eric Schneider is titled "Method, product, and apparatus for determining the availability of similar identifiers and registering these identifiers across multiple naming systems" -- in other words, it is an algorithm...
RFID, the low hanging fruit of curbing surveillance
May 14, 2005
In a 6 to 1 vote in the California Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, April 26th, a bill to prohibit the use of radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips in state identity documents such as student badges, driver's licenses, medical cards and...
A pope screensaver in exchange for your soul
April 18, 2005
We were intrigued when we came across a site offering a "Free Pope Tribute Screensaver." Out of the 1.1 billion Catholics in the world there must be a significant number who would like such a thing on their computers as...
Where's our spam gone?!
March 15, 2005
Today is March 15th and after more than a year of averaging between 3,000 to 4,000 spams per day the daily average appears to be falling! We have a Barracuda spam firewall and here's a graph of the log data...
