Friday, December 16, 2011

Tech Review: pre-Friday, December 16, 2011

Open-source webOS is dead on arrival




  • Not open source plan or support from HP will probably kill webOS

FBI goes international to fight cyber criminals on their home turf

  • basically much of the theft of data and money is overseas
  • sometime the FBI know the company has been breached before the company
  • companies should report the breaches quickly

A battery that lasts 10 times longer, charges 10 times faster?



  • Northwestern University
  • anode
    • negative elctrode
  • Lithium-ion batteries
  • carbon-based material
    • atom thick sheets of grahene
  • no time frame given
  • older article form November, but still found it very interesting

IBM's 'racetrack' could change the world of computer memory


  • nanowires of nickel-iron alloy
    • 20 nanometers thick
  • electronic "stripes" represent the data
  • spin on way for + the other for -

Site for Cheap Android that Run Skype and Market

China Electronics Wholesale - Consumer Electronics Gadgets Dropship From China
  • They currently have 4 version that work
    • 7 inch (KU:ATP1038)
    • 7 inch (KU:ATP1048) sold out
    • 8inch (SKU:ATP1040) 
    • 10 inch (SKU:ATP1037).








Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Tech Review: Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Ubuntu Linux heads to the clouds

The first Ubuntu circle of friends logo.

  • Canonical
  • OpenStack cloud software confernece
    • HP chose Ubuntu as the lead host
  • Moving away from Eucalyptus
  • OpenStack
    • core infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)
  • HP's private cloud beta
  • Juju
    • lets you start-up and manage applications on a cloud
    • service deployment and orchestration framework
Lubuntu


  • A light weight ubuntu for net books
  • link seems broken
GNU PDF


  • Implements the ISO 3200-1 standard
  • started in 2007
  • was on the list of high priority free software projects
KDE Plasma Active


  • Is not an OS
  • KDE 4.x style interface and API fro touch devices
  • Plasma Active Team
Creating a Linux resolv.conf file


  • nameserver XXX.XXX.X.X
  • To get the name servers from my desk
    • from command line
      • ipconfig /all
        • all for DNS Servers

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

GPS Disruption from Feb 15 to Feb 22


http://gcn.com/articles/2011/01/24/faa-gps-aircraft-warning-dod-testing.aspx?s=gcndaily_250111

The Fed Aviation Administration has issued a warning to pilots that the GPS for Southeast and Southwest US will be unreliable or unavailable for areas in the south US from Jan 16 to Feb 22.  The actual dates depends on where you live.  For the Southeast it is Feb 15 to Feb 22.