Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Right Under My Nose!

George rekindled my interest in a story that I'd long forgot. Check out this post and the follow up about a dam break near a power plant that I once worked a project in.

And, here's a press release from GE about their involvement in the aftermath.

Killer VIdeo Output


Check out the

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Zenview Command Center Elite


Introductory Web Price: $11,999
Probably works great with Flight Simulator

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Trusted Computing

My brother sent me this video about Trusted Computing.

Why is that we're not allowed to decide what we want to do with our own IT resources anymore?

I think all software packages should have a "You're not my mother" button on them. In particular, I'm thinking of iTunes and iPod. The software is so self directed that you can't do anything with it! You're totally screwed if you ever need to troubleshoot.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Windows Vista

Is anybody else looking forward to Vista?
Incidently, Vista does not stand for...
Viruses
Instability
Spyware
Trojans
Addware.
:-)