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Periodically I come across deals for computers that are very tempting. I’m not necessarily in the market right away: I’m going to keep my laptop until I’ve been working long enough that I can afford something stellar. It’s silly to “upgrade” a little bit. But every time I see these deals, I think of the [...]
A cool map of lightning frequency over time across the globe. And a live version for the U.S. Heck, a zoomed-in version on the Northeast for the past 60 minutes. It turns out that you can even buy a small Lightning Detector to map local lightning strikes on your PC. It listens for the signature [...]
I started a blog post about this, but it talked about terabytes NASs, HDTV DVRs, VoIP / SIP, LDAP, DNS caches, NTP strata, and a bunch of acronyms. So instead I’ll be incredibly precise. This PC, seemingly sold only at Walmart, is really cool. It’s not that fast. Its specs are bad any way you [...]
As I’ve mentioned in a few past posts, those of us in business school really don’t think normally. Having found that there are a lot of good jobs in Nashua (versus my previously-narrow search in Boston), I started looking, out of curiosity, at real estate in Nashua. And I stumbled across this place, a home [...]
So the Project 25 protocol, with its IMBE CAI digital voice, is being rolled out in huge numbers. Motorola’s ASTRO is the most commonly-used, although several other providers make radios that do the P25 standard, too. They’re calling it interoperability. When you and the next town over both buy $3,000 radios doing a crappy 9600bps [...]
Kyle has an awesome 22″ LCD. His is probably 6″ thick in the back. I have a 14.1″ laptop. My LCD is probably less than 1/2″ thin in the back. Why is this? My first guess was the power supply. But I’ve seen a few LCDs where they’ve taken out the power supplies and put [...]
I lost the lottery last night. Actually, I never even entered. The drawing was for $270 million (30-year annuity), or $164.3 million cash. The stakes were high, but I still didn’t dare risk life and limb to go buy lottery tickets. Further, I’d have to clear my car off and I was feeling pretty lazy. [...]
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19 Feb 2008I’m a long-term radio geek, and I’ve realized that the technology interests me more than actually using it. Having worked with lots and lots of radios (I realized that I have three sitting on my desk, all of which I have used in the past 30 minutes), I’ve concluded that I’d like to start a [...]
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16 Feb 2008LCD and plasma TVs are becoming increasingly popular, costing between $1,000 and $3,000. If you have that budget in mind, something I’ve wanted to do for a long time suddenly becomes viable: buy a projector and mount it on your ceiling. Of course, only the very high-end projectors will do the 1920×1080 that 1080i and [...]
I just saw this link on a site I frequent: a Compaq laptop, dual-core chip, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB disk, 15.4″ LCD, DVD burner, and integrated wireless… $300 after rebate ($440 before). (Of course, I had no idea that HP still makes Compaq-branded machines?) For the same price, they’ve got a desktop system… It’s [...]