For many years its been common internet knowledge that you don’t open email messages from people you don’t know. It’s also understood that you don’t click on popup ads. Unfortunately, now malware coders are making their ads look like legitimate virus warnings so unsuspecting users think that they are really infected with some virus and [...]
So here it is, the last day of the decade and I’m nursing a cold. What a way to go out. Oh well, maybe it’s a sign that next year will be better. I hope you all have a great and safe New Year celebration! See you next year. Keep coding!
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My first year in college I was faced with one of those career-altering decisions: TI or Hp? I had managed to get through high school with an older model TI programmable calculator but the final in my circuits course required doing complex matrices. I tried to program the algorithm into my calculator but it just [...]
Sounds like a bad tabloid headline but, according to this article, some mean people hacked the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program and stole some patient and prescription data and are now demanding $10 M to return the data. This story was picked up by the AP whom reported that the state of Virginia refuses to pay [...]
This is an interesting article I found via Clive Maxfield (Engineer Extraordinaire) about programming skills that were once mandatory. One interesting bit was Hungarian notation. I use Camel Case but I still prefix pointers with a lower case “p” so I guess I’m still a little old school. Punch cards are thankfully no more but [...]
If you have a Windows Mobile based cell phone you can now convert it into a laptop. Celio Corp is selling a product called Redfly that is basically a laptop shell that runs off of the cell phone itself. It comes in a 7″ version and an 8″ version and for now it only supports [...]
Yes, I know that sounds like an oxymoron but you’ve got to check out this site to see what I’m talking about. This guy actually takes a new Dell monitor and makes it look like part of some antique furniture. He also has a keyboard that has the rounded keys like an old-style typewriter. Pretty [...]
This just in about a team of researchers at MIT who developed a cool new guitar that can give you different sounds in the same body. This is actually not the first time someone has tried to get more sounds out of a guitar. Some years ago Line 6 began selling the Variax, a guitar [...]
I just saw this over on PLDesingLine about how Windows Mobile powered phones will be able to backup their info on a website called My Phone. Well I’m here to tell you that I can already do that. You may recall that I recently bought a mobile phone with Windows Mobile installed on it. Well [...]
There’s a great article over on EETimes about how the Dean of Engineering at Stanford University is proposing some changes to how schools should prepare engineers. He lists 10 proposals for improving engineering education:
1. Engineering schools need to develop ”T-Shaped People.” In other words, engineers need to learn their discipline in depth. But they also [...]
