Daily Readings July 14, 2005. 15:16:07
Slashdot
- An internet-controlled train set. Neat. A falling window cover damages Discovery, as the mission status reports.
- Lenovo is going to sell blade desktops. Keep it up, and I hope to see more innovations.
- British classical labels are claiming that the BCC’s distributing free copies of Beethoven’s Symphonies constitutes unfair government competition.
- Someone hand-built 19″ mini-ITX server rack that now holds 28 hard drives. This type of project I should take up.
- The Internet Archive has been sued over stored pages. This is bad.
- An editorial about the end of the floppy era. And yet Dell still ships their desktops with floppy drives.
- A practical guide to a DIY LCD projector.
- The checkbox and radio button have finally been style-conquered using CSS.
- An article speculates that IBM’s losing Apple is not a large loss for them.
- Broadcasters have accepted the January 2009 deadline to stop analog TV broadcasts.
- Someone documents linux user management, over Windows’.
- NASA calls off the launch of Discovery due to a faulty fuel-tank sensor.
- The people a at TreeHugger have written an article on how to build a 17ft, 3KW+ output wind turbine. The parent site has other interesting projects too.
- http://wifi-hotspot.wirelessinternetcoverage.com/ using Google Maps’ API. Greasemap, a GPL firefox plugin to interface with Google Maps’ API.
- Intel Developer Macs outperforms G5s. Interesting.
- CNN reports that a study has found that 1/3 of all studies are nonsense. How circular.
Flexbeta
- An alleged hacker says that US defense sites are poorly secured.
Neowin
- Skype goes wireless, and will provide VoIP WiFi service.
- IBM has developed a new type of handwriting input method, Shark, Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding.
