Archive for October, 2006

Unbreakable, Unfakable, Cent-ual Linux

So of course, the financial news world is buzzing with Larry Ellison’s announcement that Oracle will be selling their own flavor of Linux: Unbreakable Linux, which they freely admit will be pretty much stolen from Red Hat and sold for about half the price at the entry level. Here is why investors are wrong, and Red Hat really has nothing to worry about.

Robo-Digged :)

My RoboSheep made it to the front page of Digg.com today Cool.
One thing I want to comment on is that some of the hardware people out there are complaining that this project isn’t that impressive, and some of the software people are complaining that the software isn’t that impressive. The point behind the whole […]

RoboSheep

I got inspired to build something that has been bouncing around in the back of my mind for a while:
A stuffed animal that turns it’s head to watch you! I figure this would be a fun way to build a simple robot, and would also serve to spook out house guests (and my wife!) […]

Windows Mobile 5 followup

So, I used my Windows Mobile 5 phone for an additional 3 weeks after writing my last post. What I found was that there is a serious bug in Windows Mobile 5 where it would suddenly stop syncing for no particular reason. This seemed to be somewhat correlated to when it was plugged in or […]