At a Technology conference in Lake Tahoe, Bill Gates made a prediction that the best education will come from the web in 5 years. Nicholas Negroponte also said that the physical book will be obsolete in 5 years. He compared paper books transition to their digital counterparts to the music and film industry of a few decades ago.

ARM is greater than Intel for power consumption vs performance. ARM processors will win the tablet/laptop war in the long run. There, I said it. Unless they make some serious pitfalls, ARM should have a serious stranglehold on the future of tablet PC’s and other mobile devices.

The price finally comes down to a somewhat reasonable level for HDMI cables and now they don’t want to sell them anymore. What about small devices that incorporate hdmi such as phones?

If you are 54 or under you will need to start asking some very direct questions of those candidate’s you are planning on voting for in the next election!

Today, the logo on Google’s homepage changed to their first interactive doodle - a playable game of Pacman, and you don’t even need flash to play it. Yet another nail in the flash coffin? Hit Insert Coin again and you can play as Mrs. Pacman with the WASD keys while player 1 uses the arrow keys!

The Category 5e standard guarantees performance of attenuation, return loss, propagation delay, delay skew, NEXT, Power-sum NEXT, ACR, power-sum ACR, ELFEXT, and power-sum ELFEXT to a nominal range of values at 100 MHz. The Category 6 standard guarantees to 250mhz. Cat6 is more expensive and doesn’t get you any improvement right now unless you’re running 10Gbase-T hardware. Cat5e are easy to make. Just get a spool, a crimper tool, and some rj45 jacks. If money isn’t a factor, run cat6 or fiber, and run multiple cables at a time. Get fancy punch down terminals and build a wiring closet with fancy lighting. And pay a high end home theater company to do it all for you.

BanThePhoneBook dot org has set up a petition for an opt-in program for receiving the White Pages Phone Book. Your first instinct may be to think that the WhitePages is desperately trying to hold onto their old ways, but they’re not Murdocking at all. If you take a look at the WhitePages’ own blog you’ll see news about their mobile apps and tools for online searches. It’s good to see them embracing the future.

Comcast will continue to share what we learn with the Internet community, particularly with the IETF, for the benefit of other users of the Internet. What you didn’t notice in that statement was the font size 0.0001 where they added some disclaimers about their definitions of community, share, and benefit.

Maybe i’m one of those minorities, but just last year’s Surrogates movie showed the darker side of avatars. Think of the expectations you face when avatars integrate into your working life. Avatars interacting between two coworkers is one thing, but between the HR department or other organizations is another. Now I’ll have to worry about being mistreated or discriminated against if I don’t choose the proper look.

Make sure a firewall rule isn’t blocking NFS. If NFS is running on the server and clients _can_ mount, but it’s just really slow, then things get a little hairly. You can’t just look for a problem on a client or a fix a misconfigured server. You’ll have to look at the whole ball of wax… If MTU mismatch doesn’t seem to be a problem, try going the other way and increasing the MTU size. Use the traceroute command to look for unexpected routing hops or delays.