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Archive for July, 2005


From Shared Hosting to Dedicated

Saturday, July 9th, 2005

For a while now I’ve been working in the internet field, with a few websites that make a tidy sum of money each month. For a long time they’ve all been hosted on a shared account I’d had for some time, which had previously been used for small personal projects and had mostly been co-opted [...]

FlockBots

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

Courtesy of Slashdot, the FlockBot project aims to create an open design for a $800 robot capable of multiagent research. This isn’t the interesting part (for me, at least). That comes in the equipment list they quote for the project. (non-interesting/relevant parts cut)
A 200MHz Bluetooth-enabled Gumstix Linux computer with wireless TCP/IP
An Acroname Brainstem motor [...]