Cell phone coverage in our new building has proven to be quite a challenge. It would appear that big steel buildings such as ours do not permit easy wireless transmission. I have noticed issues with sending 802.11 G and N signals as well the signals that make our phones work. The overhead wireless network was [...]
Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
13 Nov
Chrome OS Coming Soon
It looks like Chrome OS will be launching within the week! Google’s Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall. Hardware support is a problem with all operating [...]
27 Aug
Complete Care Coverage
Great video from the NC State Office of Information Technology on the need to purchase complete care coverage on your computer equipment. We purchase it on all of our new computers at work!
25 Jul
Is Sugar The Laptop Or The Operating System?
Nicholas Negroponte is at it again, giving an interview in Singapore and discussing the major failings of the OLPC project. I was struck by one thing that he said: Putting a crank-shaft on the XO laptop was a mistake, but the biggest mistake was not having Sugar run as an application “on a vanilla Linux [...]
8 Jul
Google Chrome OS
It’s official. I will be installing it on my Dell Mini 9 net book as soon as it is available! Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for [...]
7 Jul
WordPress For Blackberry
Very interesting new Blackberry application. Now I can blog from anywhere! You can find out info on how to download this app here.
26 Jun
Sugar On A Stick
The MIT Technology Review has published an article detailing the latest efforts on behalf of the Sugar Labs project. The newest version of the Sugar operating system is designed to install on a USB thumb drive or CDROM. If it is installed on a thumb drive then user files can be written to it and [...]
