September 17, 2010: 10:09 pm: MatthewEnvironment
Thin film to trap light and increase efficiency… pretty cool!
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Broke a zone with a CNAME at the root
…which it turns out is illegal.
….you can’t have a CNAME be the same as a zone name, since a zone has at least an SOA record (and, arguably, at least one NS record as well), and the CNAME can’t co-exist with it. Just use an A record and be happy.
and that defeats the purpose of me not having to maintain multiple 2nd level domain name IPs with CNAMEs. But now I’m older and wiser…
January 7, 2010: 10:44 pm: MatthewUncategorized
Neat idea now that CDs and DVDs aren’t that necessary… replace the Mac optical drive with a second hard drive. Not always practical but could be good for some folks, or maybe for me in the future.
http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/index.htmle
Google Voice – one number with voicemail transcription
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
an interesting idea – instead of a big inverter, use micro-inverters at a panel level to make the panels independently useful and optimizable…
Mishmash of articles – Part II
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.
I haven’t updated my list of solar cell info recently, either…
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
Continuing Electric Car Progress
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.
Ntop [ntop.org].
Nagios [nagios.org].
MRTG [oetiker.ch].