This is finally sinking in. I held off on broadband for many, many months but now I realize it was worth the wait. My phone line is free. I can do long distance chat at Internet rates. I can do video phone. I can download huge installers on a whim. I can quickly upload huge [...]
A nice simple article about what I mean when I say “semantic HTML“. Macromedia, responding to ongoing pressure from Web accessibility advocates, continues to improve the accessibility of it’s products. Good. If people insist on using it, at least make it accessible. Ooh! Really, really, really big iron! I am envious! Google’s effectiveness as search [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve said anything so, before I go to sleep tonight, I’d like to provide a statement about why I remain mostly closed mouth about Microsoft or other religious disputes.
Speech Recognition (SR) has come a long way in the last five or so years, just recently IBM researchers have managed to make it work in hand-held computers. Such developments might actually make hand-helds, which I’ve regarded as rather dubious toys, useful. Actually I’m only talking about this because one of the sites I administer [...]
NEC just recently developed a new high density fuel cell to power PDAs and laptops. Meanwhile SolarHost is a relatively new ISP/site hosting company whoes server farm is powered entirely by photovoltaic cells. And I just read about Australian plans to build huge energy collector called a solar chimney–perhaps SolarHost should look into that.
The rarity and expense of DSL is totally bogus. Robert X. Cringely shows you the truth the baby bells don’t want you to know. Probably isn’t legal in some parts though.
Your old 486 has the potential rival the big iron of supercomputers. You just need the right sort of software or coding skills and a whole bunch of old 486s hooked together via ethernet. The idea is called distributed computing. What you do is divide a supercomputer sized problem up, give each small piece to [...]
My urges to abolish any form of push marketing in my life compel me to investigate digital video recorders. But then my urges to only spend my money on real hardware compel me to investigate software that will convert a computer into a digital video recorder.