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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
December 28, 2008: 4:50 pm: MatthewUncategorized

Thin Film Solar possibilities

Interesting new basic content delivery system from Amazon

Big improvement possibilities for wind power

Homeowner-owned fiber… aka Homes with Tails

Significant numbers of people exiting Amazon and starting companies

Voice Search for the iPhone

Warnings of problems with e-voting machines that thankfully appear to have not come true

Great technical ideas and inspirations and policies for a new president

Plastic solar cells

How Spam is Improving AI

Improving display technology

Improving solar cells

Selling tickets in Boston – Ace Ticket interview

Is GM’s Volt Ready to Roll?

Solar Roofing Materials

Obama’s online tools

Electrocaloric hopes – plastic that cools

Hydrogen storage for solar energy?

Cloud infrastructure providers

John McCain, Battery Booster (it’s been a long time since I posted)

How do we manage (or do we manage) video prioritization over the network

Online schedulers with natural-language processing

November 30, 2008: 1:28 pm: MatthewUncategorized

Trying to get Ubuntu NFS shares to be readable via Mac clients…

FAIL

Turns out they’re considered unsafe… or in NFS parlance, insecure. Need to change each line in /etc/exports to include the insecure option:

/mediafiles/movies *(ro,insecure)