For those of you who don't know, I'm working at JTeam here in Amsterdam. I have started my first professional blog. That doesn't mean its any better, has smarter content or anything, only that I get paid to write on it.. sorta.
http://toolman.jteam.nl/
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Monday, 31 March 2008
Thursday, 6 March 2008
Sterling engine in your PC:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2272507,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532
A great idea, use the waste heat that the CPU throws off to power the cooling fan. I wonder how noisy this is? Also, sterling engines are fickle, as they use a sort of resonance between the expansion inside the cylinder and the cooling that the output fan creates. Still its a neat idea, and maybe we'll see it becoming more common, if the tech is stable (and cheap) enough.
A great idea, use the waste heat that the CPU throws off to power the cooling fan. I wonder how noisy this is? Also, sterling engines are fickle, as they use a sort of resonance between the expansion inside the cylinder and the cooling that the output fan creates. Still its a neat idea, and maybe we'll see it becoming more common, if the tech is stable (and cheap) enough.
Monday, 3 March 2008
RIP Netscape
As many of you probably know, Netscape officially removed support for its eponymous browser.
Then Mr. Sam told me about this new browser that was a fork of netscape, and cut out the rest of the clutter that was the Mozilla / Netscape bundle. The Netscape / Mozilla bundle had all sorts of fluff that not many people used: email client, HTML composer, calendaring etc. And then Firefox came along and showed how small, focussed and fast was better...
And we all rejoiced. And the plugins were good. And we looked upon those still using internet exploder and laughed.
Netscape - you lead the internet revolution for a time, and now your offspring, Firefox, is keeping the other browsers honest.
Official: http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/I was an early convert well before Firefox came about. I loved tabbed browsing, but everyone I showed just thought that it was a duplication of the task bar list of windows. Oh how wrong you all were - who still uses a browser without tabs? (Shut up anyone using iE6 - you shouldn't be reading this blog on such a crap browser)
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7270583.stm
Then Mr. Sam told me about this new browser that was a fork of netscape, and cut out the rest of the clutter that was the Mozilla / Netscape bundle. The Netscape / Mozilla bundle had all sorts of fluff that not many people used: email client, HTML composer, calendaring etc. And then Firefox came along and showed how small, focussed and fast was better...
And we all rejoiced. And the plugins were good. And we looked upon those still using internet exploder and laughed.
Netscape - you lead the internet revolution for a time, and now your offspring, Firefox, is keeping the other browsers honest.
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