Monday, April 08, 2002

Paleotech 01: Sparks and Glory. A new technology promises to bring the world together in new and exciting ways. Inventors seek to realize its promise, while investors seek to cash in. Con artists climb aboard seeking quick bucks. Some go to jail; even serious players are investigated. The most promising technologies are hamstrung by obsolete intellectual property laws and government interference. When the technology matures it will come to define a new century; but it will happen more than a decade later than necessary and few of the original visionaries who made it possible will be important players. And it all happened almost 100 years ago. [kuro5hin.org] 4:27:10 AM

Build Your Own Monorail [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 4:25:13 AM

Building a mini- 'quieter-than-a-whisper' linux pc. After building a quiet, but by no means super quiet computer i still wanted to get to the point of 'quieter-than-a-whisper'. Not wanting to go the route of water cooling or putting the computer in the basement and running the cables through the floor,the next best solution is to try for a cooler running processor, which will not require as many fans. [kuro5hin.org] 4:19:36 AM

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