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A new threat from the datacentre: you're making your staff deaf!
Blog The law says the minimum above which danger to hearing can occur is 80 decibels on a daily/weekly exposure - that's about as loud a sound as loud singing from 3 feet away or a noisy car driving by as close as 25 feet from you.
[June 18, 2008, 11:59]
TokBox - A Nice, Simple VideoChat Alternative (also for Linux!)
Blog Maybe this will put a little fire under the feet of the current Video IM companies who are dragging their feet on making a Linux version. I have FINALLY had the time to take at least a quick look at TokBox, which was recommended to me in a comment...
[July 8, 2008, 13:37]
Hello Dolly! Hurricane Preparations
Blog The local elevation is about 45 feet above sea-level. My family's home is about 40 miles from the Gulf Coast, literally 2000 feet south of the southern edge of Houston. There have been some hurricanes that have hit Houston square-on, Alicia in 1983...
[July 27, 2008, 20:29]
UK, US, Russia, China - surveillance blackspots
Blog Meanwhile, the Washington Post is reporting that US federal government will soon offer its citizens an RFID enabled identity card that can be read at a distance of 20 feet, for those who frequently cross borders.
[January 2, 2008, 17:32]
I Don't Like IKE.
Blog One of the traffic lights on the seawall street was lit up red and remained stuck there with about 10 feet of water swirling around the base of the traffic light! We've got 25 feet more in elevation compared to her house.
[September 13, 2008, 8:03]
VMworld blows up a storm
Blog But big competitors Microsoft and Citrix - who haven't been the guilty parties - have apparently been limited to booths just 11 square metres in size (10 feet by 10 feet) at VMworld 09. If you're into virtualisation, whether vendor or buyer, then...
[August 27, 2009, 12:40]
Cosmic threat to tomorrow's computers
Blog Engagingly, this also means that SER goes up with altitude - you'll get five times as many just 2,600 feet above sea level, and if you're living in Denver (5,280 feet ASL) expect ten times as many. Intel's first two billion transistor processor...
[February 4, 2008, 23:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Last Friday, a bearded American stepped into a glass cage and was hoisted many feet up in the air. Monday 8/9/2003 We do not know why, nor do we know why he chose a field directly opposite our offices in which to voluntarily suspend himself.
[September 12, 2003, 17:00]
Google Wave — we're on it. And you can be, too...
Blog Our first Google Wave invites have arrived, and we've spent the first hours of the day getting our feet wet in the surf (and you could join us: read on). IM on speed" was the reaction from the newsdesk, as we watched mulitple people around the...
[October 1, 2009, 11:53]
Does BA re-boot its planes?
Blog Or have you people also been sat at 34,000 feet enjoying your ‘Worcester Sauce’ flavour pretzel bites and G&Ts while tuning into the new BA video on-demand service only to be told that the system needs to be re-booted so that little Jimmy in seat...
[January 10, 2008, 18:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Scarcely have my feet touched the ground on return from IDF in San Francisco — my diary from then will be with you next week, time travel fans — than I'm whisked off to Glasgow for a spot of radio presenter training.
[October 6, 2006, 18:55]
LET US UNITE AND SUE SKYPE (DRAG THEM TO COURT)
Blog There is a lot of shouting and stamping of feet on the Skype Forum of late LET US UNITE AND SUE SKYPE (DRAG THEM TO COURT)" but I don't see any action being taken on this, I wonder why. REMENBER ACTIONS TALK LOUDER THAT WORDS,
[May 4, 2008, 20:03]
What to expect from Sybase TechWave 2008
Blog I’m currently sat at 34,000 feet in seat 20D on board US Airways flight #80 to Las Vegas on my way to attend Sybase’s user conference TechWave. This is my fifth year attending the show and I think it’s probably worth explaining why I am going.
[August 4, 2008, 18:51]
Just how successful is the MS/Novell pact?
Blog I'm getting cold feet about Microsoft's latest so-called Linux victory. The software giant said on Monday that Walmart, the supermarket giant, was migrating from RedHat Linux across to a combination of MS/Novell software.
[January 25, 2007, 17:04]
Das Boot-up and Tanking-up
Blog One or maybe two of those big bang-booms very early this morning was a very large branch about 30 feet long on a red oak tree coming down and bouncing off the central AC unit, a bedroom window cover of 1/2” plywood and finally the household input...
[September 15, 2008, 10:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog No longer smashing cities beneath its giant metal feet, it crouches on all fours amid the ruined city, lifting its robot fist into the rain-lashed sky and unleashing one final bellow of defiance before its final collapse.
[May 11, 2001, 16:00]
Disaster Response in the Pacific
Blog Tuesday, a powerful underwater earthquake triggered a tsunami with waves 15 to 20 feet high that crashed into the Samoa islands, destroying homes and taking lives. By Adele WaugamanThis week has seen a devastating series of events in the Pacific.
[October 6, 2009, 9:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As Jo Best's report says, the company may have to wait for a bit before the wunderkind gets his feet under the desk as there's a spot of porridge on the menu. Monday 20/09/2004 A teenage German hacker, currently on trial for creating the Sasser...
[September 24, 2004, 18:15]
Tech recycling law will hit in New Year
Blog Other states managed to roll out the directive on schedule but the UK is at least a year behind and has dragged its feet all the way thanks to some heavy-weight lobbying from the tech producers. Green may be a vote winner but you wouldn’t know it...
[December 20, 2006, 8:40]
Summer is still on Strike. Well I guess its still Spring in Texas.
Blog I had just starting pulling into the parking lot and I had 2 strikes of lightning hit the asphalt about 100 feet away about 5 seconds apart. Was going to the nearby (actually nearest) grocery store to pick up hamburger meat for my almost famous...
[June 22, 2008, 11:24]
