Archive for April, 2006

How To Get “Provider Independent” IP Address For Your Home Server?

This article is about how to provider-independent real IP address for your home server behind the NAT.

Is this the end of the road for traffic lights?

Hans Monderman, a traffic planner involved in a Brussels-backed project known as Shared Space, said that taking lights away helped motorists, cyclists and pedestrians to co-exist more happily and safely. The idea is that people pay more attention when not relying on lights to direct them.

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Election Spawns New Hope for Tech

History will record the Democratic landslide of 2006 as a stinging rebuke of President Bush’s war policy and the end of one-party rule in Washington. How it will record the election’s impact on technology issues is less certain.

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ferrari design contest winners

car designers from 13 countries participated in a international design contest last year. Five winners were just selected

From Windows 1.0 to Vista

Nice collection of 55 pictures of Windowa from first 1.0 to the last one Vista.

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Brewing BEER with Linux

QBrew is an open source application to aid you in developing a recipe for home brewed beer.

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Microsoft lets your make your own Blue Screen of Death

Here’s the best utility to come out of Microsoft TechNet in a while. A screensaver accurately creating simulated blue screens using the actual kernel to provide proper output.
As TechNet describes it: “Use Bluescreen to amaze your friends and scare your enemies!”

RIP Sysinternals.

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This Dream brought to you by….

Commercials in your sleep? Sound ridiculous? Think Again! Scientists have found a way to provide marketers access to the one period during the day that their audience isn’t already exposed to a plethora of messages: while they’re sleeping

Trying Out the Zune: IPod It’s Not

David Pogue – tech writer for the New York Times et al – gives his honest “hand’s on” opinion of Microsofts “second” attempt at killing the iPod – the Zune.

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