April 14th, 2004
Wired | A Black Box for Human Health
Hi-tech space technology has the potential to save human lives here on Earth.
April 13th, 2004
Duke | Amdahl’s Law
This is a very good explaination of the Amdahl’s Law. This law is named after Gene Amdahl, an IBM employee who was working on parallel computing in the 60’s.
April 12th, 2004
Sky and Telescope | Reanimating the 1882 Transit of Venus
This is being touted as a movie from before movies were invented. The article also says that the next transit is to happen on June 8 this year.
April 8th, 2004
Webmonkey: The Web Developer’s Resource
Webmonkey was one of the cornerstone sites of the Internet boom where millions of coders and would-be coders thronged. And like many things of the dot com era its time has run out.
April 8th, 2004
Wired | NASA Stuntmen to Catch Sun’s Rays
Death-defying stunts in over 45 movies is just the right kind of background needed safely bring stardust safely back to earth. For a change stuntmen will keep stardust and not stars (the movie kind) from being roughed up.
April 7th, 2004
NE Asia | NEC Develops Fastest Rechargeable Battery
This will cost the same as current Ni-MH batteries and charge in just 30 seconds. This will be a big boost for portable power technology.
April 6th, 2004
SFGate | IBM’s ‘dinosaur’ turns 40 PCs were supposed to kill off the mainframe, but Big Blue’s big boxes are still crunching numbers
Long live the mainframes ! How many of us realize the fact that over 70% of the world’s data resides in mainframes?
April 6th, 2004
Hinterlands.cc | Pot-in-Pot
Check this Rolex award ($100,000) winning low-cost, zero-power refrigerator. Real science and technology is cheap and helps improve lives.
April 6th, 2004
IEEE Spectrum | The Melodies of Spirited Wood
I made up the above headline as I found the original ‘The Solution Was Sake’ rather boring. Anyways check out what everyone knew all along- wine and music mix very well together. Cheers!
April 5th, 2004
Wired | Computing Power to the People
Think of flash-mobbing and substitute computers for people. That is what flash mob supercomputing is all about. Read on… I can already imagine how cool it would be to mix flash-mobbing, lan-partying and flash mob supercomputing.
April 5th, 2004
Economist |Quantum computing
Rather interesting article on the potential of quantum computing and what hurdles are facing its development.
April 5th, 2004
CNET | Wireless called key to global development
This is just proves that the inflexion point of ‘technology percolation’ may soon start yielding results.
April 5th, 2004
CNET | Wireless called key to global development
This is just proves that the inflexion point of ‘technology percolation’ may soon start yielding results.
April 3rd, 2004
Archive.org | Google Hardware
Check out the rather humble beginnings of Google. On the other hand they had pretty good hardware and sponsorships / donations for that time.
April 3rd, 2004
Its been five days since my cable internet connection went bust. I have been reduced to the crawling dial-up. What makes me mad is that my cable guy had the gall to encash my cheque for the connection and he has still not fixed the connection. The bucketfuls of rain is also not making things good.
