Mondo Goods (April 3, 2008)Source: Cate Howard bookmark (http://niwde726.tazlog.com/)
Recycle Your Old Computer Into a Print Server [Hardware] (November 4, 2007)Source: Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com)
| Save some system resources and share multiple printers between more than one machine by recycling that old "junk" system sitting in your garage into a dedicated print server. eHow has a step by step... |
Yet Another Computer Glitch Cripples Air Travel (August 13, 2007)Source: Techdirt (http://www.techdirt.com/)
| It was an all too familiar scene at Los Angeles International Airport this weekend, as a computer glitch temporarily left 20,000 passengers stranded. This summer has seen a bevy of glitches and delays, as the civil aviation infrastructure gets stretched to the breaking point. This time, the failure was not on the part of the airlines, but on the US Customs service, which prevented passengers from properly getting screened. Obviously, glitches are going to happen now and then, and so it's not a realistic solution to simply eliminate them. But seeing as every minor ripple ends up creating such a calamity, costing millions in lost time and profits, a greater emphasis needs to be placed on developing systems that fail gracefully. |
Computer failure strands airline passengers (August 12, 2007)Source: CNN.com - U.S. (http://www.cnn.com/US/?eref=rss_us)
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Computer Modeling Smoothes a Dam Hard Job (July 12, 2007)Source: Wired Top Stories (http://www.wired.com/rss/index.xml)
| Demolishing a dam is fraught with potential danger to life downstream, but computer modeling helps the demolition team figure out the best way to proceed.
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