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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog On the downside: the International Space Station resembles the ramshackle spaceship Dark Star more and more each day, Beagle 2 has provoked a new spirit of secrecy in the European Space Agency, and the next time we'll see a shuttle will be when...
[July 16, 2004, 17:50]
Echelon fears could force new laws for America
News Now they have to deal with 21st century technology," said Brad Alexander, communications director for Representative Bob Barr, a Georgia Republican who called for investigations of United States intelligence-gathering activities last year.
[June 29, 2000, 11:08]
Police arrest phishing mob suspect
News The US Marshals have also issued a detainer for Schwarmkoff after he reached fugitive status for similar charges in Georgia. A suspected Russian gangster and phisherman, caught red-handed with $200,000 worth of stolen goods and $15,000 cash, has...
[November 11, 2004, 11:22]
Windows XP could trigger fight for Web subscriptions
News In regards to Windows XP prompting me to sign up for Passport, to be frank, I don't like that at all," said Darnell McGavock, a database administrator from Georgia. If there is any doubt about Microsoft's determination to expand its Internet...
[October 17, 2001, 16:57]
Witty 'probably an ISS inside job'
News Now, new information on Witty has been compiled by researchers Vern Paxson and Nicholas Weaver, both of the International Computer Science Institute, and by Abhishek Kumar, a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
[May 26, 2005, 16:15]
DreamWorks spins off animation unit
News No matter how much faster computers get, it takes the same amount of time to render computer animated movies, because the effects keep getting more sophisticated," said Scott Owen, a professor of computer science at the University of Georgia and...
[November 1, 2004, 9:10]
Amazon guarantees that UK jobs are safe
News The cuts are primarily coming from the closure of a distribution centre in Georgia and a Seattle customer service centre. Internet retailer Amazon.co.uk promised all its UK-based employees that their jobs are safe Wednesday, a day after it was...
[January 31, 2001, 9:05]
US State Trivia Pocket Directory Database
Downloads The Database contains:The East, including Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont, each with State Flag Graphic, Order of Acceptance into the US, Statehood...
[December 17, 2002, 7:00]
Laughing from Sunday mornings all the way to the bank
News No matter how much faster computers get, it takes the same amount of time to render computer animated movies, because the effects keep getting more sophisticated," says Scott Owen, a professor of computer science at the University of Georgia and...
[November 1, 2004, 11:19]
Cisco's 'factory floor' switch
News On Monday, it will begin selling the Catalyst 2955 line of switches, which have vents to dissipate the potentially system-crashing heat of a "factory floor in Georgia in summer," said Cisco Vice President Larry Birenbaum.
[March 3, 2003, 9:11]
Bush security drive could include privacy czar
News If you bring us a proposal, I imagine that we would look at it very seriously," Mark Everson, controller of the Office of Management and Budget, told panel chairman Bob Barr, Republican-Georgia. President Bush's proposed Department of Homeland...
[July 11, 2002, 10:08]
Mitnick gains friends in high places
News The protests were held in captials cities of Georgia, New York, Illinois, Ohio, Colorado, Nevada, California, Nebraska, Pensylvania, Oregon, Minnesota, Washington DC, and at the US embassy in Moscow, Russia.
[June 7, 1999, 13:29]
Mac dealers: iBooks in short supply
News A dealer based in Georgia told MacCentral that although distributors are hoping for stock next week, Apple has told them that the target date was "only a guess", and that even when units arrive they will be "in very limited numbers".
[November 7, 2000, 11:53]
IBM expands Linux marketing push
News Among the two dozen companies testing Linux on the iSeries are Insurance Management Solutions Group and Sea Island Resorts of Georgia. IBM has been backing a Linux push on all four of its server lines, though the company has been making the most...
[July 25, 2001, 9:58]
Blueball Simple Pro
Downloads You can hide or show each image location on a page by page basis.5 site page widths - 740px, 840px (default), 940px, 1040px, and 1140pxVertical nav menu with 3 sub levels.3 sidebar variations - hide, left or right3 font style variations - Georgia...
[October 7, 2008, 20:40]
US politicians oppose tax on net access
News asked Representative Hank Johnson, a Democrat from Georgia. With only months left on a moratorium restricting state governments from taxing internet access, the US House of Representatives on Tuesday began a debate over whether the ban should be...
[May 23, 2007, 11:08]
Blueball Shadow Colors 3.6
Downloads Vertical nav menu with 2 sub levels featuring graphics.sidebar variations - Left (default) or hide 2 Image border variations - On (default) and off.font style variations - Lucida (default), Georgia, Verdana, Trebuchet, and Helvetica.font size...
[September 10, 2007, 8:00]
Robots: It's Intel inside
News The Georgia Institute of Technology, for instance, is working on swarming robots that can mimic bees and other insects that work in concert, similar to a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[March 20, 2003, 13:15]
Intuit snaps up online banking specialist
News Intuit will form a new financial-institutions business division and will continue to operate Digital Insight's California and Georgia facilities. Intuit announced on Thursday plans to acquire on-demand applications provider Digital Insight for...
[December 1, 2006, 8:19]
AMD to curb quad-core power usage
News Still, the bulk of the papers — such as the one titled "5mA 0.6 CMOS Miller Compensated LDO Regulator with a -27db Worst Case Power Supply Rejection Using 60pf On-Chip Capacitance" from the Georgia Institute of Technology — go far over the heads...
[February 12, 2007, 9:29]
