Asus set to debut volume shipments of the $199 EEE PC
Asus has announced it intends to begin shipping the ultra low-cost EEE PC in September. According to Asus, the E’s in the title stand for “Easy to learn”, “Excellent Internet”, and “Excellent mobile computing experience.” Asus reportedly plans to ship up to 500,000 of [...]
ASUS Eee PC Hand’s On Preview – HotHardware
One of the biggest news stories out of this year’s Computex wasn’t of a new chipset, GPU, or graphics card, but rather of the announcement of the ASUS Eee PC, a small, slim, and light portable computer that is priced at $199. Introduced by Jonney Shih, Chariman [...]
My Quiet Life » DoD Hard Drive
I had some repairs done on my laptop today — the extended support plan is gonna expire soon, so I had them replace the LCD, keyboard and hard drive (the old one was yielding frequent IDE channel resets). So, the Dell rep shows up and goes to work, and [...]
bookofjoe: Ray Earhart’s Floor Desk: Way cool — and you can make it yourself
Ray Earhart’s Floor Desk: Way cool — and you can make it yourself
This does look way cool. I wonder if the wife would approve of computing in bed. I’m guessing so as long as I build her one too.
Craftsman 21754 CompuCarve Compact Woodworking Machine, Computer-Controlled at Sears.com
Compact, computer-controlled, 3-dimensional woodworking machine with an easy-to-use interface. It allows a novice to make a complete project without a shop full of tools.The unique configuration allows it to perform many other woodworking functions, including ripping, cross cutting, mitering, contouring, jointing and routing. The CompuCarve can work [...]
Disgruntled Dell customer finds crafty path to lawsuit settlement – Engadget
Dori thought to have the papers delivered to a Dell shopping mall kiosk instead. Quite unsurprisingly, no-one from Dell turned up in court on the stipulated date, resulting in Dori winning a $3,000 default judgment and a ruling to allow bailiffs to close the kiosk [...]
And The Best Antivirus Is…
One thing I always hate to do is to find the best Antivirus program that will protect my computer. The two best paid versions that I have always heard about are Kaspersky and NOD32. For free software, I always look towards Avast or AVG. Of course, that is what I knew [...]
VintageComputing.com | Vintage Computing and Gaming » Blog Archive » The Dial-Up BBS Revisited
Visiting such old BBSes is incredible — it’s like traveling back in time to the early-mid 1990s. Each BBS is a unique a time capsule, stocked with trinkets and ephemera from the period. On message boards, you’ll find posts from 1994 about [...]
soap homepage
Interesting.
Soap is a pointing device based on hardware found in a mouse, yet works in mid-air. Soap consists of an optical sensor device moving freely inside a hull made of fabric. As the user applies pressure from the outside, the optical sensor moves independent from the hull. The optical sensor perceives this relative motion [...]
Maluke Co. → Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Amazon EC2 enables you to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, not hours or days. You can commission one, hundreds or even thousands of server instances simultaneously. Of course, because this is all controlled with web service APIs, your application can automatically scale itself [...]
