As I referenced in my prior entry, I'm reviewing Sun's three major strategic imperatives, and our progress going in to next fiscal year. Our strategic imperatives, in order, are: 1. Technology Adoption 2. Commercial Innovation 3. Efficiently Connecting 1. and 2. This entry focuses on the second, Com...

I have DVD's that I need to show on a Barco DP-1500.. How? Here's what I know: I need DVI-D input. Most video cards/DVD players seem to have a dual-link DVI-I output, but I'm confused as hell about what variety of male connector I should be using. Assuming we settle physical connectivity issues, I t...

Town Councilors Jeff Plumb and Keith Hamilton look over financial data with Supt. Susan Lusi. Everybody at the Finance Committee meeting tonight seemed to want to keep the Elmhurst School open for at least another year, but the devil is in the details, some of which are beyond control of the town. T...

so i've felt like shit the last few days.  that's no good, specially because i have to fly to virginia tomorrow morning. was chatting with one of the guys at work.  in the blank he said "bong" but i heard "bomb."  really changes the tone of the conversation... "so when i worked at the hardware st...

This week's issue of the Olympic College's newspaper The Olympian includes news of the HP 3000. In specific, the paper reports about the fate of systems which support admissions, registration, financial aid and graduation tracking. This nearly-total range of college operations relies on an H...

The second day of the “Neutrino Conference XIII” in Venice was dedicated to, well, neutrino telescopes. I have written down in stenographical fashion some of the things I heard, and I offer them to those of you who are really interested in the topic, without much editing. Besides, making...

  I am an Episcopalian and lately I've been away from church. Its hard to get out in the winter. And yet I am proud of the progressive stance that Episcopalians have taken when it comes to disability and inclusion. The Episcopal Accessibility Network has lots of useful information about disabil...

You’re going to have to shell out some cold, hard cash to get HTC’s upcoming HTC Touch Diamond2 smartphone in your pocket, but you can get some of the Diamond2’s software goodies without spending a single dime. The updated Diamond-successor sports nothing less than a 5-megapixel ca...

Travis Alber, Kat Meyer’s latest interviewee in her Digitizers series, is co-founder of BookGlutton. See more on Travis at the end. Launched in January 2008, BookGlutton is a cross between a book, a computer and a book group—a Web-based reading platform that lets users discuss books from...

"The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are." - Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- Somewhere in time, on some drunken night of mayhem, he'd shattered his iPhone against a brick wall. Chunks of ancient red dust from some ...