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Mobile from Georgia Tech
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
I’m attending a conference at the Georgia Tech Electronic Design Center in Atlanta this week – and will bring you a few links on topics and sessions of interest.
GA Tech Update
GA Electronic Design Center
Continuing conference
Keynote presentation on need for speed
12 GB in 1†drive
130 GB in larger drives
How back that stuff up ?
All our experience has wire/cable somewhere – or fiber
Wireless;/portable devices
20 min to backup USB 2.0
Need for Speed
Backup can’t take more than a few minutes
Datacomm speeds 5 x every 3-4 years
Next Gen backup must offer 10x
Wired and wireless speeds 10Gb/sec – 25 then 50 Gb
I thought 1080p was the limit- but the next gen 2048p 48 bits deep need 15Gb/sec
Cheap
60Ghz unlicensed
Done in CMOS – cheap
Won’t go thru walls – fill the room
Part 2 – Cognitive Radio
Thru the wall problem get that HDTV goodness disperses
Second segment on Cog Radio
Real time adaptive
Looks for empty space between channels, now unused
Low low power – 1 or 2 mW but low freq.
This will come after Feb 2009
Who tells grandma.
Vista in Europe conference – MS VP said the 64bit kernal will be a black box
“ like invalidating their warranty by opening up the deviceâ€
32 bit version will be more open
Comments on Register “By “blackboxing” the Vista64 kernel MS has just thrown down the challenge to every blackhatter out there – and tying the security industry’s hands behind their backs.â€
Good News
Creator of Dilbert Scott Adams
Voice has returned lost my voice about 18 months ago. Permanently. It’s something exotic called Spasmodic Dysphonia. Essentially a part of the brain that controls speech just shuts down in some people
Spontaneously returned His brain remapped
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick.
Jack jumped over the candlestick.
Google Custom Search Engine
choosing which Web pages they want to include or exclude in their index, as well as how content should be prioritized.
Google ad-words included – no extra charge.
WSJ notes the latest Unisys campaign, directed at exactly 20 individuals
CTO at several major firms
Billboards close to offices
Subaru of America, DHL, Citigroup and Northwest Airlines will get a surprise when Fortune magazine arrives on their desks this week. Each will find his or her own face gracing the cover.
If you have the misfortune to be a sysadmin for a high school computer lab
Quick note on the “anti-executableâ€
standardizes any environment by preventing all unauthorized or unwanted programs from being installed.
May find useful for Mom’s machine
Eval copy download
Network engineer sad tale of wan cards purchased to upgrade Cisco 2811 router.
phony network equipment had been quietly creeping into sales and distribution channels since early 2004,
on eBay for deeply discounted gear
part2
outside your trusted channel to buy critical network components.
discrepancies in packaging and labeling.
“The printing on the bar-code label was fuzzy like it’d been printed off a low-quality printer instead of a laser. And its internal packaging was a plastic bag instead of a plastic box like the others,
Part 3
10% counterfeit suspected
3Com and HP, along with Cisco and Nortel,
Cisco has 28,000 registered resellers, 3Com has 3,000 and so on.
In UK – series of nodes, pressure below the waterline, webcams, ultrasound
Batteries and solar panels
Wifi – bluetooth tens of meters range run models what is happening next
SMS to those nearby in flood plain
could speed up responses to environmental events,
GUMSTIX
1 by 5 inches 400Mhz Intel 64MB RAM
Compact Flash slot
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