Sunday, March 30, 2008

CCC | How to fake fingerprints? nice demo of the fallibility of bioinfomatics

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Creating DVD videos on Linux and Unix a great overview from the womble
PuneTech � Building EKA - The world’s fastest privately funded supercomputer good tech overview of India's #1 supercomputer

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Friday, March 21, 2008

Tips and Tools for PC Building good tips for screwdrivers and software
HardyUpgrades - Community Ubuntu Documentation although it's due in a week or two, you can try out 8.10 easily

Friday, March 14, 2008

Building your own Solid State Drive (guide) DIY goodness, SSD from CF cards for £50

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Vaguely live map of trains in the United Kingdom another great one from dracos
Tyan Deskside Supercomputer next generation of the typhoon systems, top spec is with 10 Quad Core Opterons, 320GB RAM, and 14TB of storage

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Car and Fuel Costs
Costs the earth, but how much money.

Statics:
1 Imperial gallon = 4.54609188 litre.
30 miles per gallon.
£1 per litre.
£4.54 per Imperial gallon.
13,333 miles per year.
40,000 miles in 3 years.

Sums:
30 miles per gallon = 6.6 miles per litre (30 miles / 4.54609188 litres).
£1 per litre = £0.15 per mile (£1 / 6.6 litres).

Totals:
£6060 for 40,000 miles (£0.15 * 40,000 miles).
£2020 per year.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Why falling Flash prices threaten Microsoft | Technology | The Guardian interesting read in last Thursday's paper
The Battle for Your Desktop comparative OS review

Sunday, March 09, 2008

Fedora Myth(TV)ology MythTV on fedora how to

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Nokia N810 internet tablet | Register Hardware good review from the reg, had a look at it in the flesh, seems like a nice bit of kit, also the previous models are much cheaper now

Wednesday, March 05, 2008