Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Drones
Barely a week goes by these days without me seeing something about a cool home built drone project on sites like Hack a Day, and a couple of weeks ago the Open Source Hardware Users Group (OSHUG) had a meeting dedicated to drones. I really liked the idea of using Kinect as a controller for […]
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Tags: ARDrone, drone, drones, kinect, OpenRelief, OSHUG, quadcopter
KVM mort
This isn’t a post about the KVM Hypervisor, which I believe is alive, well and rather good. This is a post about keyboard, video and mouse switches. At both home and work I have multiple machines, and monitors with multiple inputs, so all I need is a KM switch to share my keyboard and mouse […]
Filed under: could_do_better, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: digital, displayport, DVI, HDMI, keyboard, KVM, monitor, mouse, switch, USB, VGA, video
An enterprise Ultrabook
I’ve recently had a couple of laptops on loan that have got me thinking about what the perfect enterprise laptop might feature. Business – Lenovo X220 I was loaned this to try out a super secret new security product. Regular readers here will know that I have a fondness for Lenovo laptops, and this is […]
Filed under: review, technology | 5 Comments
Tags: business, consumer, corporate, displayport, docking, dual screen, enterprise, laptop, network, smartcard, Thunderbolt, ultrabook, Wide Eye, WiDi
Three screens
I’ve had a run of bad luck with screens recently.. Laptop The first casualty was my son’s X121e. He brought it home from school one evening saying ‘the screen on my laptop is broken … I didn’t drop it’. My response was of course ‘why are you telling me you didn’t drop it’, and ‘what […]
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Tags: Blade, fixing, iPad, IPad 2, laptop, LCD, lenovo, Orange San Francisco, phone, repair, screen, smartphone, Touch, X121, x121e, ZTE
Big Data – a little analysis
This post was inspired by a conversation I had with a VC friend a few weeks back, just as he was about to head out to the Structure conference that would be covering this topic. Big Data seems to be one of the huge industry buzz phrases at the moment. From the marketing it would […]
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Tags: algorithm, analytics, big data, complexity, quant
The suckage of hotel Internet
I’ve been on the road now for a week and a half, which has brought me into contact with some of the slowest, most expensive Internet access I’ve suffered in some time. I’m used to mobile Internet being expensive and slow, but this has been even worse. My problems started in an airport lounge in […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble, technology, travel | 1 Comment
Tags: download, hotel, Internet, lounge, mobile, speed, travel
In my previous post about Raspberry Pi I noted that it will probably wipe out the existing market for thin client devices. It won’t stop there though. Next up – media players… Hardware wise the Raspi is very close to existing media players like Apple TV (2nd gen) or something like a WD TV Live – […]
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Tags: AirPlay, HDMI, media, player, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, remote, streaming, XBMC
I ordered this card to go in my latest Microserver running the Windows 8 Developer Preview, but before it arrived I found an old NVidia Quadro NVS 285 lying around, which fitted the bill perfectly for doing dual DVI. My next thought was to upgrade the NVidia Geforce 210 in my (now rarely used) workstation. […]
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Tags: 5450, benchmark, DX10, DX11, fit, HD, heatsink, Lego Universe, Microserver, Radeon, Sapphire, WEI
I like to get familiar with new versions of Windows early in the cycle, so it was great to see the Developer Preview being made available ahead of a beta. First impressions The new Metro interface hits right between the eyes. I can’t say that I’m a fan yet. It seems well adapted to touch screens, but I’m […]
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Tags: desktop, KVM, Metro, Microserver, N40L, USB, wifi, Windows 8, wireless
OpenVPN
For some time I’ve used SSH tunnels as a means to pretend that I’m somewhere else to avoid geography filters, or to otherwise sneak past content filters. This is fine for regular HTTP(S) traffic from a browser, where it is easy to define a proxy server, but doesn’t work so well for other applications – […]
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Tags: cloud, filter, iOS, iSSH, Linux, OpenVPN, PrivateTunnel, SSH, SSL, tunnel, Ubuntu, vpn, VPS, Windows
