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And on my favorite topic, which with great effort I don't mention every day, Ars Technica's Hannibal has posted the second part (the good part) of his IBM PowerPC 970 article. This is going to be the new brain in high end Apple machines. Should show up sometime between late June and September. Needs to be a home run, and it looks like it might be.
Finally, turning once again to Apple's use of the 970, I believe that Apple is poised for a huge overhaul of its hardware line based on this processor and a renewed relationship with IBM. I'm finally convinced that Apple's days of wandering in the wilderness with Motorola are over, and that personal computer users will be able to see the Mac as a real option again in terms of desktop, and not just portable, performance.
Bunch of interesting stuff today.
LanLink is an all volunteer project to create a coast to coast (U.S.) wireless network.
A project of this magnitude will undoubtedly take on new meanings and visions as hurdles are passed and obstacles are overcome, but today, the purpose of LL is to setup a wireless lan infrastructure in the homes of average people that spiderwebs and interconnects coast to coast using store bought wifi equipment and not at any point connect to the real Internet. A successful test of this experiment will be to ping remote hosts the farthest that is possible.5 out of 4 stars cool.
Unimportant statistic of the day: the last post I made was the 22,222 post on this site (not just my page, the whole site.) That's not counting comments.
Trepia has a new Wi-Fi instant messanger program for windows that works like Apple's rendezvous enabled iChat instant messanger in that it will allow you to connect to other Wi-Fi users in your immediate vicinity.
While programs like ICQ and AIM will show you a static list of friends, Trepia shows you a list of people who are currently in your area -- people who you most likely didn't know before! You can check out their profile and picture and strike up a conversation, knowing that if you actually want to meet them, they are never more than a few minutes away.As public Wi-Fi nodes proliferate this sort of thing is going to become very cool.
I also like Trepia's copy under the download button: "Trepia is free to use and contains no spyware or ads." Amen.
Vanu shows off software defined radio prototype running on the iPaq. Here's all the +3 slashdot comments, including this representative overview:
...What this means (in the future, with 2.4GHz+ capable devices) is that one device (be it your PDA, mobile phone, PCMCIA card) can be a GSM phone, can be a CDMA phone, can be a 3G phone, can be a CB/commercial/police radio receiver, it could even be used for 802.11b or Bluetooth. The possibilities for software radio are mind boggling. Linux is really irrelevant in the scheme of things, it's essentially just used to bolt the stuff together - it's the underlying technology that is impressive.Bring on the uber communicator. Converge damn it.
T-shirt. (via fimoculous)
Geek alert: the technorati API has been released. This will let people with too much time on their hands write scripts to mine data from the vast technorati database. In other words, this will help automate the weaving together of the weblog world.
Over the past few months, I've gotten a lot of requests from people who wanted to be able to use the Technorati database for a variety of purposes - everything from social network research to mini-applications that would send them a page or an IM whenever someone posted a link to their website. I created the Technorati API order to help foster these creative ideas and developers.
Verizon to add wi-fi to phone booths?
Crossing fingers...
Ftrain is always worth the ride:
An editor, could I persuade one to read this far, would correctly say, "where is the story?"
My weak reply: this is not a story but a marker. People will find it in the future, as they come across these pages, and they will see that after the water boiled and I drank my tea, I kept writing. 2004, 2005, 2006, 2020.
Christopher Locke is back on a roll. He puts the 'is' in disorder. Or possibly the 'or'...