Technical Discussions

Thoughts on Engineering & Technology

Virtual Company Services

These are some of the virtual company ideas i have been researching

Virtual Company Services

No Workers No Offices

Forming a Virtual Company

December 23, 2008 Posted by turinghut8 | Business | | No Comments Yet

Rebellious behaviour has positive reaction

This article is a interesting  confirmation of what i already observed.

Researchers found that people find those who are more likely to break the rules more likeable

December 23, 2008 Posted by turinghut8 | psychology | | No Comments Yet

DIY Laptops from ASUS

ASUS C90 Laptop

ASUS C90 Laptop

The laptop you see above is the new ASUS C90 barebones laptop onto which you can add processor , memory , HDD and video card of your choice , no mean feat in laptops ..

I drool over this new barebones model and for ventilation from 4 cooling fans

ASUS C90

Also this is a older model Z84FM

Notice that in the older model you cannot replace the video card because NVIDIA introduced the MXM interface recently.

Z84FM

December 22, 2008 Posted by turinghut8 | Uncategorized | | No Comments Yet

ARM Cortex-based netbooks due soon

Technologically it’s great but the only thing is who will buy a linux netbook ( am assuming linux is the only OS that will run on this ) , I don;t see winXP for ARM coming soon…

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39527261,00.htm

Maybe a good alternate for the Loongson processor based notebooks as the ARM cortex will be more powerful.

November 1, 2008 Posted by turinghut8 | Hardware, embedded systems | , , | 2 Comments

Pro Click here to find out more! TouchKit: the open source, multi-touch screen developer’s kit

This is a alternative to microsoft surface technology.

raises interesting possibilities…maybe for window shoppers to check out price’s in the window itself ..?

http://www.gizmag.com/touchkit-the-open-source-multi-touch-screen-developers-kit/9852/

October 31, 2008 Posted by turinghut8 | embedded systems | , | No Comments Yet

Tesla’s Wireless Energy

Maybe it’s time to look to the past to the pioneer who really conducted practical experiments and got results , maybe we need to ressurrect nikolai tesla the world is now desperately ready for his ideas..:)

http://www.teslatech.info/ttmagazine/v1n4/valone.htm

October 30, 2008 Posted by turinghut8 | Energy | , | No Comments Yet

Would you want to use “Microsoft Azure” …?

Hi everybody,

I saw this article in infoworld about “microsoft azure” the new web services platform , the thing is would you want to trust MS / google with you business data , especially saying MS/google knows your quarterly financial data before you do by automating the data search process… ( google rocks at search ) , i am even worried that i use gmail for all my discussions and google might get a heads up on my idea’s if they wanted to …

I wouldn’t put that past our corporations … today and tomorrow .

If i was the head of a big corporation i would do it , it’s human nature …

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/27/Microsoft-launches-Windows-Azure-for-the-cloud_1.html

October 28, 2008 Posted by turinghut8 | cloud computing | , | No Comments Yet

Rathaxes

I found this project while looking up IT-DOSE 2008 webpage in netherlands , seems to be a problem in all this who writes the .rtx file which gets converted to the driver , and if the developer has very clear specifications of the hardware for which the driver is to be written then he can go ahead and write it in C , the problem with closed hardware is nobody gives the open source developer the specs.

I think this is just a extra layer and adds more work …

http://www.rathaxes.org/

October 21, 2008 Posted by turinghut8 | Linux | , | 5 Comments

Is my WiFi safe…?

I use the WPA2 encryption on my WiFi and now there is this article , in a security site about how this russian company elcomsoft is using standard NVIDIA GPU hardware to increase the cracking ability of WPA cracking software from years to weeks or months … man what are we to do …?

http://securityandthe.net/2008/10/12/russian-researchers-achieve-100-fold-increase-in-wpa2-cracking-speed/

October 13, 2008 Posted by turinghut8 | security | , , | 2 Comments

Embedded Linux Nightmare

Hi Guys,

This is a nice article about embedded linux vendors like montavista and others ,

http://lwn.net/Articles/230831/ , what he says is absolutely true .

October 11, 2008 Posted by turinghut8 | embedded systems | , , | 1 Comment