Archive for May, 2009

May 20, 2009: 6:10 pm: MatthewTechnical

Google’s new mobile gmail

Cloud computing portability

Google Voice – one number with voicemail transcription

Fancy Google Chrome Apps

Automating email filters – OtherInbox.  Of course, ClearContext currently does great stuff for me on that, and basic rules in Outlook or Mail or Zimbra do fine for vanilla patterns…

Multicore technology and how development is going to utilize them all

Obama’s campaign technologies… how many of them could you or I use for business or pleasure?

A Bionic Eye… coming soon.

Femtocells – an interesting solution to being in the hills, away from wireless carriers’ nodes.  Now if only the carriers weren’t charging extra for them… they should really be paying people to install them.

Offline web applications – they’re coming, and AIR looks pretty slick.  Of course, it’s only one technology, but the idea is a good one.

Manipulating wearable computers without stopping your regular business

: 5:53 pm: MatthewEnvironment, Technical

an interesting idea – instead of a big inverter, use micro-inverters at a panel level to make the panels independently useful and optimizable…

May 11, 2009: 1:40 pm: MatthewTechnical, Tips and Tricks

Using rsync over ssh

Linux, Clocks, and Time

Apache Module mod_rewrite

Apache Virtual Host documentation (version 1.3 doc)

Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND): /etc/named.conf

: 9:53 am: MatthewTechnical, Tips and Tricks

killer monitoring apps [infoworld.com]

slashdot discussion on blinkenlights

Cacti [cacti.net].
Ntop [ntop.org].
Nagios [nagios.org].
MRTG [oetiker.ch].

Sending Apache httpd Logs to Syslog

myqlBind2/iDNS

Capistrano

Comparison of issue tracking systems

New LinuxCOE helps admins customize distros

May 10, 2009: 12:30 pm: MatthewBusiness, Environment, Family, General, Technical, Tips and Tricks

Management Tips: Gen X vs. Gen Y

Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn | Guy Kawasaki

Welcome to Executor

A multi purpose launcher and more advanced and customizable freeware windows run replacement and more…

Bye-Bye, BPA
BPA/Phthalate-Free Shopping List
Now that we’re reading lots more about BPA and its low-level bad effects, we’re figuring out how to get our plastics to be non-BPA

sslstrip – transparently hijack HTTP traffic on a network, watch for HTTPS links and redirects, then map those links into either look-alike HTTP links or homograph-similar HTTPS links

How do you learn to be a Program Manager?

Mostly, becoming a program manager is about learning: learning about technology, learning about people, and learning how to be effective in a political organization. A good program manager combines an engineer’s approach to designing technology with a politician’s ability to build consensus and bring people together.

May 9, 2009: 11:53 am: MatthewEnvironment, Pushing the Envelope, Technical

I haven’t updated my list of solar cell info recently, either…

Plastic solar cell advances

Sun + Water = Fuel (OK, it’s not technically solar cells, but it’s power from solar)
With catalysts created by an MIT chemist, sunlight can turn water into hydrogen. If the process can scale up, it could make solar power a dominant source of energy.
A technology developed by IBM to cool computer chips could be a boon for solar energy.
The silicon shortage that has kept solar electricity expensive is ending.
A new solar cell is 27 percent more efficient without being more
May 8, 2009: 11:53 am: MatthewEnvironment, Pushing the Envelope, Technical
It’s been a while since I updated my list of interesting battery/auto progress links…
The automaker wanted U.S.-based manufacturing and a flexible battery design.
The planned plug-in hybrid car is at the core of the automaker’s attempt to reinvent itself. But will the car be a commercial success?
The new Prius is designed so that its battery pack can be swapped out for a plug-in lithium-ion battery.
Dense films of carbon nanotubes store large amounts of energy.
A new lithium-ion battery from A123 Systems could help electric cars and hybrids come to dominate the roads.
Nanowire electrodes could improve the performance of electric vehicles.