Will
Aerogel Let You Put a 24 GigaHertz Computer on Your Desktop by 2006?
The challenge to maintaining Moore's
law down to molecular scale turns out not to hinge on smaller transistors
but on better ways to keep the interconnecting wires from shorting across
the narrow dividing space between them. That's where aerogel, as the
best solid dielectric ever created, may be the secret for next generation
growth.
How
to fight spam
SpamCop
helps you punish spammers for sending you their junk mail. This service
is free. Often, spammers lose their accounts and even get charged "cleanup
fees" by their internet providers. By reporting spam, you can help
to turn the tide - and hopefully cause spammers some pain in the process.
SpamCop makes this otherwise slow and technical task quick and easy.
FCC
to the rescue
How
many times have you looked at a specific piece of electronic equipment
for the manufacturer's name and found nothing else than the FCC ID.
Board manufacturers are notorious at keeping you at bay. Fight back!
There is an easy way to do it ... check the FCC and search for the FCC
ID.
Al's
Link Collection on Programming Tutorials
Here
is a site with an excellent collection of programming tutorial links.
Neat! Enough said!
Internet
-- A better 'WHOIS'
Nothing
is more maddening than web sites which do not reveal who they actually
are, or a site which does not provide you with a means of contact other
than email. At times you really need to reach them by phone. On the
Internet, you can issue what is called a WHO IS command to find the
technical and administrative contact for any site. Better yet, use the
web-based http://betterwhois.com
Technical
Support
Need
help? Don't panic! Here is a site that has a collection of links pertaining
to PC support. With the Internet, if you know where to look, you can
obtain all the help you need. OOPS! one caveat, your computer must be
running and connected to the Internet. So if your down, you're out!
Great
Tutorials
This link
to the EchoEcho site offers great tutorials on CSS, HTML, Javascript,
Flash, Freehand, and a lot more. In addition, they offer on line tools
to help in web page designs such as dropdown and popup menus. You will
also find advanced scripts and other program as well as other type of
documentation.
HomeNetHelp
If you
need to set up a computer home network, this is THE site which
will be the most useful to guide you through all network equipment,
installation, and options.
Spark
Online
According
to SparkOnline our new electronic society has created a new understanding
of self. They call this new understanding of self, "electronic
consciousness." ... "Technology hasn’t changed only our societies—it
has fundamentally changed us. Spark-online is at the vanguard of recognizing,
and attempting to understand this change."
Printer
Technical Notes
Being totally
annoyed at ink jet printer manufacturer for their insane cost of ink
cartridge replacements, you can believe that I've done a lot of scouting
to find the best how-to information and the caveats of refilling ink
cartridges. I would like to point you to this particular site because
the owners' of this site has been particularly generous in sharing vital
information. If by chance you have additional information to share,
please email me the details or the URL.
New
technology could rev up chip speeds
Another
advance in technology will soon give us computer chips that are ten
times faster with 100 times more memory.
