takane - Slashdot User

Comment I am glad the FCC is spending my money on this (Score 1) 611

by takane on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @07:10AM (#34544586) Attached to: 68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband

Because defining the definition of words is very important. Obviously the definition of this is going to change as time goes on. I always though that non-POTS dialup was broadband(well other than ISDN).

Comment My electric bill lists average daily usage... (Score 1) 507

by takane on Saturday December 11, 2010 @08:08AM (#34522452) Attached to: Annual power consumption at your residence?

...by month in a bar graph for the last year. I always use 3kWh so I just multiplied that by 365.

Comment Re:freedom of expression (Score 1) 665

by takane on Friday May 29, 2009 @10:13AM (#28138427) Attached to: Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology

Gee, even Courtney Love can do a better job at making a murder look like suicide.

Comment DEC no more. (Score 1) 212

by takane on Monday May 18, 2009 @11:50AM (#27997777) Attached to: Maddog's New Hampshire "Unix" Plate Turns 20

Of course it's a HP office now...

Obama Team Considers Cancellation of Ares, Orion 870

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 29, 2008 @10:29AM from the to-infinity-and-maybe-not dept.

HanzoSpam sends us this story from Space News, which begins: "US President-elect Barack Obama's NASA transition team is asking US space agency officials to quantify how much money could be saved by canceling the Ares 1 rocket and scaling back the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle next year. ... The questionnaire, 'NASA Presidential Transition Team Requests for Information,' asks agency officials to provide the latest information on Ares 1, Orion and the planned Ares 5 heavy-lift cargo launcher, and to calculate the near-term close-out costs and longer-term savings associated with canceling those programs. The questionnaire also contemplates a scenario where Ares 1 would be canceled but development of the Ares 5 would continue. While the questionnaire, a copy of which was obtained by Space News, also asks NASA to provide a cost estimate for accelerating the first operational flight of Ares 1 and Orion from the current target date of March 2015 to as soon as 2013, NASA was not asked to study the cost implications of canceling any of its other programs, including the significantly overbudget 2009 Mars Science Laboratory or the James Webb Space Telescope."

Linux Kernel Booting On the iPhone 115

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 29, 2008 @09:15AM from the there's-no-iphone-in-team dept.

mhm was one of many readers to note that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to the iPhone. "Planetbeing, one of the iPhone devteam members, has been working on porting Linux to the iPhone (along with a custom bootloader called OpeniBoot). Today they managed to boot the kernel! Video showing the boot process has been posted. Instructions and binaries are available on the project blog."

A Replica of the First 4004 Calculator 63

Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 16, 2008 @06:05AM from the intel-inside-first-post dept.

mcpublic writes "For the 37th anniversary of Intel's 4004, the world's first off-the-shelf, customer-programmable microprocessor, vintage computer enthusiast Bill Kotaska has successfully built a replica of Busicom's historic 141-PF printing calculator using vintage Intel chips. Decades before the ubiquitous 'Intel inside' sticker, Japanese calculator maker Busicom introduced the first product ever built around an Intel microprocessor. Bill's homebrew replica includes a rare Shinshu Seiki Model-102 drum printer and runs firmware extracted from the original Busicom ROMs. Schematics and photos of his re-creation are available at the unofficial 4004 web site, along with Tim McNerney's new PIC-based emulator of the Model-102 printer. The site includes the Busicom 'source code,' 4004 details, interactive simulators, and other goodies for students, engineers, and computer historians." We discussed the 36th 4004 anniversary project here last year.

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