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White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack 77

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @03:11PM from the dedication-to-the-job dept.

Tommy Christopher, who writes for mediate.com, has reporting in his blood, so much so that he livetweeted every part of his recent heart attack. "I gotta be me. Livetweeting my heart attack. Beat that!" and "This is not like the movies. Most deadpan heart attack evar. Still hurts even after the morphine," were among his updates as he was rushed to the hospital. Christopher is now in stable condition after recovering from emergency surgery.

Brain-Control Gaming Headset Launching Dec. 21 112

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 03, 2009 @06:20AM from the oh-hey-it's-real dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Controlling computers with our minds may sound like science fiction, but one Australian company claims to be able to let you do just that. The Emotiv device has been garnering attention at trade shows and conferences for several years, and now the company says it is set to launch the Emotiv EPOC headset on December 21. PC Authority spoke to co-founder Nam Do about the Emotiv technology and its potential as a mainstream gaming interface." One wonders what kind of adoption they expect with a $299 price tag.

Comment Re:Crossloop or Teamviewer (Score 1) 454

by awhig on Monday November 23, 2009 @01:38AM (#30199646) Attached to: Simple, Free Web Remote PC Control?

I third crossloop. Manage to get my mom and dad on their respective machines to get Crossloop to work.

Comment Re:And after you install DD-WRT... (Score 1) 288

by awhig on Saturday May 24, 2008 @08:40PM (#23532684) Attached to: P2P Traffic Shaping For Home Use?

I had problems with P2P on my network and installed DD-WRT for the same reasons as above. The key for me was setting the TCP and UDP timeouts to 120 seconds, which the DD-WRT docs suggest when running P2P software. Before this, no other client on my network could get a connection to anything when I was running Shareaza. After making this change, I had no other problems. I would try this first before trying to shape any of your traffic. Rich

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