Lyle Backenroth » Cool http://www.lylebackenroth.com/blog Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:34:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Dell to come out with its own the Mini Inspiron to compete with the EEE PC http://www.lylebackenroth.com/blog/2008/05/30/dell-to-come-out-with-its-own-the-mini-inspiron-to-compete-with-the-eee-pc/ http://www.lylebackenroth.com/blog/2008/05/30/dell-to-come-out-with-its-own-the-mini-inspiron-to-compete-with-the-eee-pc/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 21:28:48 +0000 lyle http://www.lylebackenroth.com/blog/?p=116

I wonder if it will also run Linux? I hope so. The unit looks quite slick, I might even consider getting one myself — but only if it runs Linux, of course. The unit specifications are expected to be as follows: Atom 1.6 GHz, 3 USB ports, Ethernet, Card reader, Kensington lock, Adapter socket, Mic/line-out, VGA port, screen resolution at 1280×800. The unit is expected to price at less than $500. Yay!

Source: Gizmodo.

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Luckily I stumbled on a site that performs free file format conversions, from almost any format to any other format, including music, video, photo, .tar, .cab and .rar files up to 100megs. From .xls to .pdf, or .csv (comma separated value) to .jpg, just about anything; very helpful.

Zamzar.

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IP Global Positioning

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]]> http://www.lylebackenroth.com/blog/2007/10/31/tomb-of-the-unknown-geek/feed/ 0 Paperback: Write data you want to keep to actual PAPER. http://www.lylebackenroth.com/blog/2007/10/31/paperback-write-data-you-want-to-keep-to-actual-paper/ http://www.lylebackenroth.com/blog/2007/10/31/paperback-write-data-you-want-to-keep-to-actual-paper/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:02:09 +0000 lyle http://www.lylebackenroth.com/blog/2007/10/31/paperback-write-data-you-want-to-keep-to-actual-paper/ PaperBack is a free application that allows you to back up your precious files on ordinary paper in the form of oversized bitmaps. If you have a good laser printer with 600 dpi resolution, you can save up to 500,000 bytes (just under 1/2 a megabyte)of uncompressed data on the single A4/Letter sheet.

For a 600 dpi printer you will need a scanner with at least 900 dpi physical (physical, not interpolated) resolution.

It’s free & open source, although for Windows only (blah).

More info here.

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From the article . . .

The current USB 2.0 version has a top data-transfer rate of 480 megabits per second, so a tenfold increase would be 4.8 gigabits per second. Many devices don’t need that much capacity, but some can use more, including hard drives, flash card readers and optical drives such as DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD. The fastest flash card readers today use IEEE 1394 “FireWire” connections that top out at 800 megabits per second.

In addition, USB 3.0 will offer greater energy efficiency, Gelsinger said. It will be backward compatible, so current USB 2.0 devices will be able to plug into USB 3.0 ports.

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