Category Archives: Computers
Faster Wifi
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2138000/fcc-clears-the-way-for-faster-wifi.html More spectrum to open up so it can achieve Gigabit speeds. Now if only they’d deal with the battery drain…
Rubiks Cube at Light Speed
Built using Lego Mindstorms… just over 3 seconds for a fully solved cube.
Internet Speed Tests
With all the fighting recently over a Verizon employees admission that they bandwidth limit netflix/Amazon Web Service (where Netflix is hosted), here is a review of the speed from various internet providers. http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/12/netflix-speed-report-comcast-verizon-drop/?ncid=rss_truncated It shows that both comcast and verizon … Continue reading
The Imitation Game
More Alan Turing. He is to be played by Benedict Cumberbatch in an upcoming movie called the “Imitation Game”. see http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00067028.html for a brief outline.
Alan Turing Pardonned
Alan Turing’s record was expunged recently when he received a Pardon. his record was from a era in Britain when Homosexuality was illegal and charged with “Gross Indecency”. Alan Turing a seminal figure in Computer Science, who was a very … Continue reading
Women in Computer Science (Grace Hopper)
Today is also the birthday of Admiral Grace Hopper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper who is attributed with the naming of computer glitches as “bugs”. Back in the day of large monolithic systems that took up rooms and had less processing power than my … Continue reading
Computers and Education
http://csedweek.org/ Today (the 9th) is the start of the “hour of Code”. The idea is everyone can learn an hour of coding during Computer Science Education week. I’ve written about 50 lines so far today. Come on join in the … Continue reading
USB cables to get new ends
say its not so … USB plans a new end to go on USB cables (to go with at least 4 others we already have – USB normal flat, USB big square, USB mini, and USB camera mini) Here’s a … Continue reading
Random Musings 