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May/08BlueNext BN-909GR & SirfStar III Chip
I have been playing around with a BlueNext BN-909GR which has the SirfStar III GPS chip. The chip and implementation by BlueNext was amazing. I was able to get a lock of up 10 satellites on a clear bright day … Continue reading
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May/08Arduino
Overview Arduino is an open source hardware and software hardware controller. It can be used to read, process and output to various sensors and displays/emitters. The hardware is very cheap and it uses C like language to program the controller … Continue reading
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May/08Steve Ballmer Eats Eggs
People seem to like it when successful people get put down. Here’s what someone had to say in Hungry:
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May/08BugLabs Bugs
This cool modular open source hardware is a pretty good idea but seems a bit big and expensive. It’s a good idea and the even better part is that they use the Java to programming and the Eclipse IDE works … Continue reading
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May/08FireFox 3 Beta 5 On Ubuntu Back Button Disabled
For some reason the back button is disabled so you can’t go back to the previous page you went on. You can still right click on it and it will list the past pages and select them to go back.
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May/08What Is OpenID
Toby had sent me a link on how to make your own website your OpenID page but he has yet to write up his experience *hint* *hint*. Whilst I have heard of OpenID I thought not to dabble in the … Continue reading
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May/08Virtual Machine And VPN
ExtremeTech podcast episode #128 had an interesting way of combining the two methods. Some VPN clients like Cisco has the option set by admin to disconnect all external network connections except the active VPN connection. This makes the user part … Continue reading
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May/08Microsoft Publisher 2007 Freezing Problems
I have been doing work and everything was going fine till I started up Publisher to do my title page. First Publisher froze and then all other explorer related windows froze like explorer, desktop (it’s funny the desktop seems to … Continue reading