I have seen many commercials produced by IBM about “Blade” servers but I never knew what made them different from traditional rack mounted server systems. When I came across this article on the Internet, I decided that it would be a great opportunity to find out more about blades.
A blade computer system has two major […]

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If you are a Java developer (which doesn’t include myself), you have almost certainly heard about Eclipse. For the rest of us, “Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular.” Eclipse runs on many platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, or if you have […]

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The idea of having computerized speech has been around since the 1970’s. The first attempts at speech sounded nothing like a real person talking. Today scientists are still working to create systems which can mimic human speech. Researchers from IBM’s synthetic-speech group have created a software called “Supervoices”. The Supervoice system, “…is based on the […]

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If you are ever stuck out in the wilderness somewhere and need to start a fire, all you need is a can of soda and a chocolate bar. (I prefer matches or a lighter, but this is quite a cool “nature hack”)

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