Writing
BigBelly to the rescue
I watched a segment (on the Science channel) about BigBelly, a solar-powered trash compacting garbage bin that’s currently being used in some areas of New York. Built and developed by Seahorse Power Company and priced around $4,500, it crushes garbage based on some algorithm into eighth of its size when needed; thus, reducing the frequency…
VMWare’s Open Virtual Machine Tools
Nice! VMWare recently released an open source version of its very popular virtual machine tools. It’s currently housed on Sourceforge, known as Open Virtual Machine Tools. The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user…
Seven interesting computer facts
Here are seven “did you know” interesting computer facts (info consolidated from the CIO website): 1. What’s the closest computer to the North Pole? National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Webcam #1, A NetCam XL, made by StarDot Technologies. 2. What’s the farthest computer from Earth? NASA’s Voyager satellite computes at the edge…
CLR has been unable to transition from COM context for 60 seconds
I was debugging an inherited multi-project WinForms application (from my co-worker and friend, Genaro Quismorio) today and came across this error twice (below), which was frustrating, annoying and very unproductive. This error occurred while stepping through a breakpoint [Debug.Break] in my WinForms code while looking for a bug. One fix I found on Google was…
iGoogle vs. My Yahoo!
I’ve had my Yahoo! screen name since the mid 90s and my Google screen name since its beta days. Both of of them allow you to customize your own, personalized home page Web 2.0 style. That is AJAX technologies and support for gadgets/widgets is available and extensively used for a more superior, less lag time…
Apple’s upcoming iPod touch
Gadgets, gadgets; don’t you love ’em? Apple (read: Steve Jobs) has apparently made official the new, upcoming iPod, labeled iPod touch. It practically looks and works like an iPhone except for the phone features, e.g., “flick through your photos”, “slide to unlock,” etc., although the lower “main” icons seem to be on top of a…