Category: technology

TPN really needs help from a server guru Aug 2007

The TPN servers crashed 15 times in the last 24 hours and we don’t know why. I really need a server admin guru to help us get to…

telepresence Aug 2007

telepresence 2 Originally uploaded by cameronreilly Yesterday, after the Telstra “social communications roundtable”, a few of us were treated to a live demo of a Cisco Telepresence unit…

Another tale from the “Cameron is an idiot” file Aug 2007

The original shield on my video ipod (the “invisibleShield”) was starting to look very tacky after almost a year – the edges had started to slightly peel away…

G’DAY WORLD #272 – Prof Rodney Brooks, MIT Aug 2007

Rodney Brooks is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From…

G’DAY WORLD #271 – Vernor Vinge, SF Author Extraordinaire Jul 2007

Today I had the fortune to chat with another living legend – Vernor Vinge (pronounced “vin-jee” as in, he explained off air, “stingy”). While VV may not have…

Facebook Phobia Jul 2007

What is it with all of the Facebook phobia I’m hearing lately? Today alone I have had three people tell me they either don’t want to sign up…

How to force Vista to open links in Firefox! Jul 2007

Thank Science! I finally found out how to stop Vista opening links in IE instead of Firefox! This has been bugging the hell out of me since I…

G’Day World #261 – Wendell Wallach on AI Ethics Jul 2007

Wendell Wallach is a lecturer and consultant at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics where he chairs the working research group on Technology and Ethics, leads a seminar…

G’Day World #260 – J. Storrs Hall on AI and Nanotech Jul 2007

J. Storrs Hall is an independent scientist and author. His most recent book is Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine, and he was the founding Chief…

Microsoft lost 12% of developers to Linux in the last year Jul 2007

According to an article in Infoworld today: A survey this spring of more than 400 developers and IT managers in North America found that the number of developers…