Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Small Reactors

I'm no expert, but the small reactor idea does seem to have a lot of upside.

SkyDrive is now OneDrive

So Microsoft lost a fight over the name and their cloud file service is now OneDrive. I'm still using Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive in addition to OneDrive. I'm too cheap to pay for a service and I don't have a favorite at the moment, so I'll just keep using all them to meet my collective needs.

CTRL+SHIFT+V

Learn something everyday... beats pasting into notepad then again into Blogger.

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Tue, Feb 18 13:26:18 from web

iPhone Air?

I love the speculation about the next generation of phones... in this case, the iPhone 6.

User Feedback

So, when you click on a page to request that a new PIN be mailed to you, that page should give you some sort of confirmation that the request was submitted successfully. Otherwise a user might try again and then again from another browser and then a day later and then from another computer and...


Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Death Wobble

The Adaptive Curmudgeon experiences a "death wobble."
I laughed out loud a few times. Bless his heart.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

2014 No-Nonsense Technician Class License Study Guide

Dan (KB6NU) has updated his No-Nonsense Technician Class License Study Guide for 2014. If you are looking to get your ticket this is a great resource.

Outernet

I'll just hold my breath... the Outernet:
"'There isn't a lot of raw research that is being done here; much of what is being described has already been proven by other small satellite programs and experiments. There's really nothing that is technically impossible to this'"
And:
"Much like how you receive a signal on your television and flick through channels, Outernet will broadcast the Internet to you and allow you to flick through certain websites."