My books. Love my books. I feel like a school boy. However the prices were crazy, I found the books are cheaper in Turkey and this "buying books" thing just made me want to put up commercials more. I still have time to think on this. I won't be doing any projects this fall. So there may be no or little updates in news part about my projects.

Testing IR camera blocking

Posted Aug 27th 2008 3:30AM by Kimberly Lau
Filed under: misc hacks, security hacks

[randy] from F.A.T. tested the theory that infrared LEDs can actually hide you from the prying eyes of surveillance cameras. We've previously covered camouflage, IR, and other suggestions for eluding the cameras, but haven't taken to sewing stuff onto our clothes yet. [randy] lined his hoodie with high-intensity infrared LEDs, hoping to create a halo effect that would hide his head, and tested his results. Unfortunately, his efforts were unsuccessful. He tested many many different combinations and we're confident in his conclusion that it would be very hard to make this work.

Oh well. So some of the movies that was based on blinding cameras went down.
I tagged this bit of news "invisibility".

Peace !

Labels: fall 2008, geek, hello from john roach, invisibility, tech news

Hello there. I'm back home. And I'm very tired. Anyone tried to reach me but couldn't during my vacation can now reach and/or contact me. I will post photos of the vacation in my personal blog TOMORROW. I am very tired now. Very...

Labels: hello from john roach, summer 2008

Oh how much I love wi-fi. I am now connected with my Fedora 9 laptop. So if you want to contact me within this 24 hours. Please do I will be at the beach with my laptop.

On to more pressing geek news.

iGoogle now seems to have a new home page. It gets a mere "meh" from me. I think I liked the older version more. It didn't have that 3D look. Which I hate dearly. Oh well.

The Invisible Man. A scientific breakthrough

Posted by Chris Matyszczyk

Today, your eyes might not deceive you. But soon, they very well might.

Some extremely clever people at Cal (the one at Berkeley) have created a material that can control the direction in which visible light travels.

Apparently, this mystery material, some details of which might be revealed in Science and Nature magazines this week (People and OK weren't interested), deflects light around an object as perceived by an insouciant eye.

"In the case of invisibility cloaks or shields, the material would need to curve light waves completely around the object like a river flowing around a rock," the leader of the Cal researchers, Xiang Zhang, told London's Times newspaper.

Aha! I knew that we would one day have invisible soldiers and so on just like those at CRYSIS game. It was only a matter of time. But I still don't get where it could be used in civilian life. I just keep getting these invisible soldier images in my head. And now with the Russian/Georgian war going on it just gets more frightening. I just hope this is not a start for the third world war.

Intel's 'Nehalem' To Be Branded as 'Core i7'

by Mark Hachman

Intel's next-generation "Nehalem" architecture will be named the Intel Core i7, and will enter production during the fourth quarter, Intel said Sunday.

The brand will be the "first of several new identifiers to come as different products launch over the next year," Intel said.

Intel did not give a formal explanation of what the "i7" brand stood for, or how future cores would be described in that context. The company did say that model numbers would be used, as they currently are, to provide more information about the chip. The Intel Core i7 processor brand logo will be available for high-performance desktop PCs with a separate black logo for Intel's highest-end "Extreme Edition," Intel said.

Aha! So its out. And it's called "Core i7". Just now have to wait for the chip to get cheap and maybe than I can afford it. I am still using a single core processor.

Anyway people that is all for today folks. The next update may not be for another week or so. All depends if I can find cheap internet connection.

Peace!

Labels: computer, Fedora 9, geek, Georgian, hello from john roach, iGoogle, iGoogle Homepage, Intel, invisibility, Russia, Russian/Georgian war, summer 2008, tech news, third world war, war

Going on hiatus for a while. Updates may be few. Sorry for this but this kid needs a break. More detailed news on my personal blog.

I'll tell you why I can't find you
Every time I go out to your place...

You gone fishin' (well how you know)
Well there's a sign upon your door (uh-huh)
Gone fishin' (I'm real gone man)
You ain't workin' anymore (could be)
There's your hoe out in the sun
Where you left a row half done
You claim that hoein' ain't no fun (well I can prove it)
You ain't got no ambition

Gone fishin' by a shady wady pool (Shangrila, really la)
I'm wishin' I could be that kind of fool (should I twist your arm?)
I'd say no more work for mine (welcome to the club)
On my door I'd hang a sign
Gone fishin' instead of just a-wishin'

Papa Bing (yeah Louis)
I stopped by your place a time or two lately
And you aren't home either
Well, I'm a busy man Louis. I got a lotta deals cookin'
I was probably tied up at the studio
You weren't tied up you dog
You was just plain old...

Gone fishin' (bah-boo-bah-boo-bah-boo-bah-boo-bah)
There's a sign upon your door (Pops, don't blab it around, will you?)
Gone fishin' (keep it shady, I got me a big one staked out)
Mmm, you ain't workin' anymore (I don't have to work, I got me a piece of Gary)
Cows need milkin' in the barn (I have the twins on that detail, they each take a side)
But you just don't give a darn (give 'em four bits a cow and hand lotion)
You just never seem to learn (man, you taught me)
You ain't got no ambition (you're convincin' me)

Gone fishin' (bah-boo-dah-do-dah-do-dah-do)
Got your hound dog by your side (that's old Cindy-Lou goin' with me)
Gone fishin' (mmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm)
Fleas are bitin' at his hide (get away from me boy, you bother me)

Mmm, folks won't find us now because
Mister Satch and Mister Cros
We gone fishin' instead of just a-wishin'
Bah-boo-baby-bah-boo-bah-bay-mmm-bo-bay
Oh yeah

Peace!

Labels: hello from john roach, Personal Blog, Site update

Intel Keeps Number of Larrabee Cores Under Wraps Intel plans to detail the architecture of its upcoming Larrabee chip on Aug. 12, but it will keep the number of cores secret...

Sumner Lemon and Agam Shah, IDG News Service

PC World
Monday, August 4, 2008; 12:19 AM

Intel plans to detail the architecture of its upcoming Larrabee chip at the SIGGRAPH conference on Aug. 12, but the company will keep one important aspect of the chip under wraps: the number of cores it will have.

Intel awesomeness continues to amaze me. They wanted a terahertz computer and I think they are going to achieve it before AMD. Which is sad since I like the low cost of AMD's. The larrabee chip will also bring software complications since many still don't know how to efficiently use dual core processors. And there is this problem with hackers using these types of systems to brute force their way through passwords. Software industry needs to pick itself up or things may turn to chaos.
And talking about multi processor programming. I am thinking of a project that will use that. Tough I still haven't figured out what it should do. Plus I still don't have the money to buy a dual processor chip. ( I am still using a AMD Athlon XP 2600+ :( So any donations will be welcomed :D ) If you have any ideas on what kind of program I should write please do tell.

Peace!

Labels: AMD, geek, hacking, Intel, tech news

Launch of Private Rocket Fails; Three Satellites Were Onboard

Published: August 3, 2008

A privately funded rocket was lost on its way to space Saturday night, bringing a third failure in a row to an Internet multimillionaire's effort to create a market for low-cost space-delivery.

The accident occurred a little more than two minutes after launch, and the two-stage Falcon 1 rocket appeared to be oscillating before the live signal from an on-board video camera went dead.

Why would you put three expensive equipment on a single rocket? Meh! I bet now they will need to put in more money... Maybe they just took the risk... However I believe risks should not be taken with expensive equioment...

I happy tough to hear in this project everything was commercial...

Peace!

Labels: rocket, space, tech news

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