Via Neowin.net, back in 1952, “Back to a presidential contest too close to call, a nation worried it is vulnerable to attack, and a single company dominating computing,” and there was a “super computer” which statistically predected the election. That computer was called “Univac” and had less processing power than today’s Hallmark musical greeting cards. [...]
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Monthly Archives: October 2004
Oct 26
Tablet PCs: Ideal for Classroom Use
For the last few years I’ve been using my Pocket PC with portable keyboard for note-taking in my college classes. With a WiFi NIC, IR keyboard, and campus-wide wireless access, I could get and send email, get and send IMs, and browse standards-based web sites, in addition to taking notes in Pocket Word, all in [...]
Oct 26
JoeLevi.com now offers MSN Alerts
If you use MSN or Microsoft Messenger you can now get MSN alerts whenever JoeLevi.com publishes a new ‘blog entry. Just look for this link at the bottom of the page: This alert is obviously a “low volume” alert, which by definition is less than 5 per day (and most likely only around 5 per [...]
Oct 21
Why'd they take away my (.NET) passport?
Via NeoWin.net, Microsoft is re-purposing (read: scaling back) their .NET Passport strategy to just Microsoft websites, and very close partner sites. Originally, Microsoft had positioned Passport as your universal login for the internet, one button, one username/password, and you could log on to anything… Well, that was the utopian dream. It didn’t pan out. Imagine [...]
