Gravytrain ...Snippets of reality, well mine at least ;-)(Untitled)- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Airbags can snitch on speed-demons. Air-bag computers can be used to discover how fast a car was travelling at the time of collision. This is, of course, very interesting to law enforcement (and, presumably, insurance companies). An electronic device on board the Pontiac, however, told police exactly how fast the car had been going &151; 124 mph in a 40 mph zone. And it enabled Trotwood to join the growing number of police departments and insurance companies across the country experimenting...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100332/2002/08/22.html#a42 Loopback filesystems (Sol89)- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Testing an ISO image via loopback filesystem, lofiadm iswas added in Sol8 (useful before burning ISO image after cdrecord): lofiadm -a filename.iso devlofi1 mount -F hsfs -o ro devlofi1 mnthttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100332/2002/08/19.html#a41 Colligo Home- (Found June 18, 2008 ) "Portable Collaboration. Colligo provides collaboration software that makes it easy to connect and communicate with the people you need to, regardless of location, network or device"http://www.colligo.com/ Accounting scandals- (Found June 18, 2008 ) The second shoe in the auditing scandal is going to be stock options. Stock options represent a wage expense and should be charged against earnings. When that happens, Microsoft's earnings history will be restated to look like this (this was done by Bill Parish, who did some good work, but is a little over the top on other issues concerning Microsoft). He estimates that a stunning 65 percent of Microsoft's cash did not originate from product sales but rather from tax.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100332/2002/06/10.html#a39 Sun Microsystems- (Found June 18, 2008 ) "Join us as we unveil the Solaristm 9 Operating Environment."http://www.sun.com/ (Untitled)- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Here is a little demohttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100332/2002/05/22.html#a32 |