Posts categorised Computing

Links for 2008-07-03

• Warning to copyright enforcers: Three strikes and you’re out [Guardian]
• Hackers fan the flames of imagination at Mashed [Guardian]
• London SearchMonkey Developer Evening a great success [Yahoo Developer Network blog]
• Firefox download record official [BBC]
• The machine that copies itself [Guardian]
• Merger forms transatlantic union [BBC]

Links for 2008-06-29

• Go home, Bill: It’s time for a new era at Microsoft - if only the company were ready [I, Cringely]
• Bill’s excellent adventure ends in tears - and torpidity [Observer]
• The MBA myth [37signals]
• Why did you hire me? [A List Apart]

Links for 2008-06-22

• Leaked report for NHS reveals full extent of Lorenzo slippage [Guardian]
• Awesome progress on video timestamping [mySociety]
• We’re all ops people now [Behind the Times]
• Plain old semantic HTML (POSH) [Microformats]
• One tonne ‘Baby’ marks its birth [BBC]

Links for 2008-06-19

• ‘Oldest’ computer music unveiled [BBC]
• Flickr co-founders join mass exodus from Yahoo [TechCrunch]
• Tracking former Yahoo execs - where are they now? [TechCrunch]
• A year in, it’s clear: we got Brown wrong. He is simply not up to the job [Guardian]

RepRap builds RepRap

The Replicating Rapid-prototyper (RepRap) has built a copy of itself.

The Bath University 3D printer has built another version of itself.

Amazing!

Find out more at the RepRap site.

Linux and Unix timelines

These are impressive.

GNU/Linux distro timeline, covering 1992 to the present, and Unix history, which includes a Unix timeline spanning 1969 to now.

The explosion of Linux distributions over the past eight years or so is particularly eye opening.

BBC Micro is 26

Memories of the BBC Micro from four of the architects of the machine from the early 1980’s.

The BBC Micro was, for many in the UK, their first introduction to home computing.

Fantastic machine - I had one and cut my teeth on BBC BASIC.

3D printing for everyone

Speaking of 3D this looks amazing.

The Industry Standard reports on the background to the University of Bath open-source printer that can even replicate most of its own parts.

The Replicating Rapid-prototyper manufactures components by building them up in layers of plastic.

The next version will allow the machine to make its own and other circuitry, bringing it one step closer to complete self-replication.

The future is here!