Thursday Night Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on August 12, 2005 at 2:33:05 AM
HP buys billboard printing company.
This toaster runs BSD.
Meteor shower tomorrow morning.
Atlantis won't launch in September.
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Rich Raimondi, vice president of U.S. commercial sales for HP's Imaging and Printing division, said the acquisition provides a needed addition to HP's portfolio. Currently, HP's largest designer jet printers can handle pages measuring only 5 feet. Scitex Vision's XLjet Premium can switch between four, six and eight colors and print 370 by 740 dots per inch at 1,335 square feet per hour.
This toaster runs BSD.
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The toaster on display now in the NetBSD booth at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, is as high-tech as they come. This toaster features a 4 line LCD, USB keyboard, 10/100 ethernet port and a RS232 serial port for the external console. The toaster's internal circuit boards have been bypassed and routed through the CPU board allowing NetBSD complete control over the toaster's features. A keyboard connects through a USB port on the side of the toaster and the 4x40 LCD displays a NetBSD/toaster login prompt. The burner element is also controlled by the TS-7200 via an internal relay. Unlike previous NetBSD toasters which were nothing more than a glorified PC case-mod, this toaster can actually toast bread!
Meteor shower tomorrow morning.
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Early Friday and Saturday mornings the skies above the Northern Hemisphere will be peppered with little bits of space debris that create the annual Perseid meteor shower. With the Moon not much of a factor, it should be a good display.
Atlantis won't launch in September.
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They expected to spend several more weeks examining five areas of foam loss, the largest of which involved a 1-pound (0.45-kg) chunk of hand-sprayed foam from an aerodynamic ramp intended to shelter electrical connections and pipes that run along the outside of the tank.