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After getting frustrated out of the lemons his problems gave him, David Miller made his own corporate lemonade. Due to the frustration of always having to call technical support to solve his own frequent hardware problems, he started taking the initiative to educate himself.

The U.S. Army is getting very tight with the Apple Corporation, mainly because soldiers have long been enthusiastic users of Apple products (iPod and iPhone, and probably iPad as well). But Apple has tight control over what software can be used on these devices, so the military needs a close relationship with Apple just to get their custom military software on the iPods, iPhones and iPads the troops are so enthusiastic about. This relationship enabled the army to recently run a programming contest for troops and civilian employees. The goal was to create the most effective smart phone software for...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced a major new initiative to create robotic autonomous manipulators that mimic the human hands, an agency program manager said. For the past several decades, the research agency and the robotics community have concentrated their efforts on programming ground robots to get from point A to point B, said Robert Mandelbaum, a DARPA program manager who focuses on robotics and autonomous systems. That challenge has for the most part been tackled, he said. The autonomous robotics manipulation program will take on a new goal, creating an inexpensive hand-like device that is as adaptable as...

Jedi Mind, Inc. (Pink Sheets: JEDM) (www.jedimindinc.com) is ahead of schedule on the completion of the next thought-controlled applications due out first quarter, 2010. The "Jedi Mouse" allows the user to navigate the computer, open programs and send email with the power of their mind. The application launches a virtual keyboard once an email program is launched and provides the user the ability to compose a written correspondence and press send with the power of their mind. The application can be used by the disabled, as well as normally functioning individuals and is due to be released in March. The...

I have a hardware question. I just now installed a new motherboard. When I powered it up, the fans came on and so did the mouse, but I did not hear beep and my screen was blank. What did I do wrong? this motherboard, it is from intel - a DG43GT iG43 Into this motherboard I put an Intel Pentium D 945 3.4GHz 800MHz 2x2MB CPU. I then added 8 GB (four 2GB sticks) of OCZ brand ram, and put in a OCZ brand silent power supply (500 watt) and a GeForce 9800GT graphics card. All of that stuff was...

Putting new computers together from scratch is relatively easy. A much bigger trick is totally moving an existing software system including the OS and every piece of software on the computer to a totally new hardware base. Symantec offers a commercial product (Ghost) which is supposed to do that but which is problematical for several reasons. The Free Software Foundation offers a stunningly good piece of software along such lines: http://www.clonezilla.org I've used Clonezilla for work projects which have mainly involved cloning linux systems, and last week put it to a kind of an ultimate test which it passed easily....

Las Vegas (CA) – Toshiba said it will showcase a 512 GB solid-state disk (SSD) drive at next month’s Consumer Electronics show (CES). The 2.5” drive is likely to be the highest-capacity SSD when shown at the tradeshow, but the device will not go into production until the second half of next year. Toshiba’s new SSD will continue the race for the highest capacity SSD and given the fact that 2.5” SSDs are now hitting a range that is still considered to be mainstream for traditional 3.5” hard drives and high-end for 2.5” drives is impressive. In terms of performance,...