Tag Archives: technology

Triple booting MacBook: OS X, Ubuntu Edgy, Windows XP

Sunday, December 10, 2006 – 11:36am

This week I had the opportunity to play with a MacBook. Well, by “play” I really mean “get it to triple boot”. Sadly, its sleek whiteness doesn’t belong to me.
OS X is the main OS, Windows XP is needed for work, and Linux is there as a tinkertoy.

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Bucking trends

Sunday, December 3, 2006 – 9:04am

Doing the morning boot up at work this week, it crossed my mind that the inevitable trend toward faster computers isn’t necessarily helping us do things faster.
Well, duh.
That’s no big shock, it’s well known that software, like gas, expands to fill the available space.
Or does it? Something else occurred to me, too.
This rule only holds [...]

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Google by text message service

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 – 6:19pm

This is not only very neat from a geek point of view, it’s also useful and relatively inexpensive.
Google’s 46645 text-messaging service can fetch much more than phone numbers. It can also send you the weather report (in the body, type, for example, “weather sacramento”), stock quotes (“amzn”), where a movie is showing nearby (type “flushed [...]

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Trading security for convenience

Friday, October 27, 2006 – 6:48pm

Imagine being able to pay your grocery bill by just waving your credit card in the general direction of the card reader. No swiping, no signing, perhaps you wouldn’t even have to pull the card out of your wallet or purse.
Sounds very convenient, doesn’t it? Well, you already can, if you have a contactless credit [...]

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A smaller world through technology

Wednesday, July 12, 2006 – 1:39pm

The world is a lot smaller these days.
Here I am, sitting at my work computer, 100 yards or so from the edge of Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia, USA.
I can watch the Belfast 12th July Orange parades, live, on Belfast City Hall’s webcam, while listening to BBC Radio Ulster streamed online.

I could grab my cellphone [...]

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Best 4th July firework EVER!

Tuesday, July 4, 2006 – 3:21pm

Space Shuttle Discovery successfully launched just a short while ago.
Now that’s what I call a 4th of July fireworks display!

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