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Fill that power gap: batteries or flywheels?
Blog I visited a datacentre a while back that had a flywheel to fill the gap between power outages and the diesel generator kicking in. Are flywheels better than batteries? The datacentre manager told me it made sense because batteries - the usual...
[October 20, 2009, 13:53]
________ (fill in the blank) as POSIX Compatible
Blog First of all I am not a POSIX specialist. I can't really claim to be a Windows 7 expert, yet. Thanks to Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX; I can say that its the craziest thing I've ever heard of.
[April 10, 2009, 14:19]
Online diagnostics & assessment tools: waste of time?
Blog I mention this only because I have been signed up for my local council’s resident awareness scheme, which sees me fill out a 25-question survey twice a year to rate my opinions on graffiti and crime. Right - must fill in online council survey now...
[October 6, 2009, 7:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog No, you can fill in some of the forms online, but the embassy has to send me a payment slip. It used to be that the jobbing journo popping over to the US could get by on a visa waiver, which is a bit of paper you fill in on the plane going over...
[September 12, 2003, 17:00]
Tech Talk - SightSpeed
Blog The initial SightSpeed video window is considerably smaller than 320x240, so the incoming video is "scaled" to fit in that window; if you resize the video only window, you may increase it to exactly 320x240 (if you are very good or very lucky), in...
[November 22, 2007, 7:53]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So, to get the information the ticket office needs, I have to fill in the form. So if I can't fill in the form, Clocking-Off Bloke has to get it from Oyster using the security checks I gave London Underground when I first got the ticket.
[June 18, 2004, 18:45]
Tech Talk - Skype
Blog Clicking the "Full Screen Video" button will do just what it implies - it takes over the entire screen, however large it is, and stretches the incoming video to fill it. The results of this are generally not pretty, to say the least, unless you are...
[December 5, 2007, 9:33]
Ubuntu 9.04 Snaps Desktop Visaster
Blog I finally had my fill of Visaster on my office desktop. The final kick in the teeth delivered by Visaster was a document that flat out disappeared while I was attempting to move it to a remote shared drive.
[July 18, 2009, 22:31]
IDC Study: Boom Time for Data Warehouse Vendors
Blog IDC provided one of the better tech reads this weekend to fill the gap between New Year and Monday morning. Analyst Stephen Swoyer was part of the team that reportedly takes up to half the year composing IDC’s Data Warehouse (DW) market study (not...
[January 4, 2009, 23:35]
Pssst...wanna job?
Blog We've got a great new site, and we aim to fill it with even more great reviews content than you get already. The Reviews section of ZDNet UK is expanding. Check out the story that's front and centre on the Reviews home page right now, and get in...
[November 2, 2006, 8:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I had hoped at the beginning of the week to have enough stories to fill the four days. Friday 5/5/2006 Now it's Friday, and I've got brainlessness to spare. Take Matt Loney, Site Director. He suffers, poor chap, from being a great journalist who's...
[May 5, 2006, 18:50]
Web 2.0 gurus don’t practice what they preach
Blog So it’s been exhibition week here in the UK with InfoSecurity World and Internet World both helping to fill the coffers of the Earls Court management team. Continuing my recent thoughts on the rise of virtualised desktop application development, I...
[April 30, 2009, 12:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This is a strange, absorbing and rather French project, to fill a satellite with DVDs of messages and send it out on a 50,000-year orbit. Friday 26/04/2002 A friend drops me a URL, www.keo.org. When it comes back, our sons and daughters of the far...
[April 27, 2002, 0:03]
Web Design Survey 2007 @ A List Apart
Blog For those in the web design related field, go to A List Apart and, if you haven't done so already, fill in the Web Design Survey - http://alistapart.com/articles/webdesignsurvey Opened until 22 May 2007 - so you have plenty of time still!
[April 24, 2007, 9:52]
It's not just the LHC that could rewrite physics
Blog You can dig an enormous hole in the ground, fill it with enormous amounts of cash, and send particles screaming to their deaths inside the eyes of giant robots in search of fundamental truth about how gravity works.
[August 30, 2008, 14:06]
BSA launches two-month crackdown
Blog BSA will be phoning 1,000 businesses at random, to ask them to fill in a self audit form, to see if they are using unlicensed software. The Business Software Alliance is to launch a two-month campaign against businesses in London that haven't paid...
[June 3, 2009, 16:02]
Flashy balls make for mega-memory
Blog As well as being the fundamental element behind life, the premium component in energy storage and the top contender for executioner of the human race, it's now beginning to fill in the forms for consideration as inheritor to silicon's electronic...
[April 22, 2008, 15:42]
Wednesday
Blog Speaking as a man with a 30-letter full name, an address that doesn't fit into the normal number/street name format and handwriting that defeats GCHQ's finest decryption experts, I rarely manage to fill forms out without hitting major snags.
[November 15, 2002, 15:44]
Biometric devices. Do you need one?
Blog I want biometric device to fill my passwords instead of me. When saying “biometrics” I am not thinking about law enforcement, AFIS systems, national ID and visa projects. I first think about personal solutions that will make my life easier.
[July 4, 2008, 22:12]
Throwing caution to the wind.....
Blog The first question regarding the number of servers you guys run was surprising with 22% running over a hundred servers, I’m surprised you had the time to fill in the survey questions ! Looking at the results of the Server OS reader survey raised...
[June 14, 2008, 8:15]
