Thursday, October 24, 2002
Westheimer's Discovery
A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library.
Thinking of Radio as Smart Enough to Live Without Rules
Peter Rojas
Radio spectrum has always been seen as a limited resource, one that needs to be divided up and managed by the Federal Communications Commission and doled out for use in the form of licenses. But what if it was possible to open up the spectrum to everyone, so that anyone could broadcast anything, on whatever frequency was most convenient, without interfering with anyone else's signal?.
Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks
These tips will show you the differences between Mac OS X and other flavors of Unix; help you find the bits that resemble the Unix you are used to; and even feather your nest with XFree86 and ports of popular open source applications.
RSS Validator
This is a brand new RSS validator, built from the ground up to support all versions of RSS (but optimized for RSS 2.0). The interactive web front end is available now; XML-RPC, SOAP, and XML-over-HTTP interfaces are coming. Concept, web design, and 300 test cases by me. Coding by Sam Ruby. And of course it's open source.
Ultrawideband Gets a Break
A new FCC study suggests that the wireless technology causes less interference for bandwidth neighbors than first believed--even less than laptops or microwaves.
Oddly, the story doesn't link to the FCC report (warning, it's a pdf).
