Posted on June 24th, 2007 in Computer, Blog by Mumbles
Using the Technology of Today to Build the Computer Systems of Tomorrow
We have all seen the Digg and Slashdot posts about the technology of to morrow; airborn electricity, thought-controlled software, reports of new gamecontrollers to rival the Nintendo Wii and various others. I hope that this article will be able to bring together this entire technology into a—hypothetical, yet possible—system that could be able to control your home appliances and go out on the Web. The article will also provide links back to where the reports of said technology are online.
The system would use 2 main computers (one for redundant backup) and thin clients for controlling the various appliances. The thin clients would usesomething like Microsoft’s table top desktop [1] and be powered by electricity over the air.[2] You could also control the system with a remote of some description. Be this an RFID [3] glove where you touch your wrist with your fingers to move around the menu, or perhaps even some sort of thought-controlled headset [4]
You could use the same remote to control your various game systems with a virtual reality-headset [5] with some kind of glove like the “Immersion Cyber-Grasp”
[6] but, rather than just a glove, a full suit.
There are various articles out there about controlling your home appliances with various projects available, so I won’t go into those here, though I am going to speculate as to what problems using a system like this could cause. One of the main ones is that if someone from outside managed to gain access to the software, they could lock you into your home and deactivate all appliances, eventually forcing you to break in the door. If for any reason there is a power cut and your backup power doesn’t come online, you would be locked in unless a manual way of overriding the automatic lockdown existed. Computers brake down just when you don’t want them to do, so the system would have to be either really easy to perform maintenance on, or have an automated engineer-call-out system to bring help.
About the author
John Edmondson is an entrepreneur, working with standards-complaint web sites and web technology. He may be contacted via any of the following means: skype john.j.edmonson , admin (at) mumbles-uk (dot) com
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Posted on May 16th, 2007 in Computer, Blog by Mumbles
I have lost the drivers for my webcam which is why it has not been updating - as soon as i manage to find them again the webcam will be back up.
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Posted on May 13th, 2007 in Computer, Blog by Mumbles
Jade is my IRC python bot.
She is the same as phenny on freenode
You can see her project page here
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Posted on February 15th, 2007 in Server, Marvin, Computer, Blog by Mumbles
Ok i have Finally gotten Gnump3d to work on my home server. its only taken me about 3 days on and off of messing about with it. eveything worked fine after i pasted everything into /var/music/ .
now ive only got to get the network sharing to work.
And The Firewall is still running fine.
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Posted on February 6th, 2007 in Marvin, Computer, Blog by Mumbles
server reinstalls
Well the server put into a newer machine and just in time to as the old box was getting crunkie .
After having trouble with the boot options i finally got ubuntu installed and then spent a while getting apache , mysql, webmin and various others to work. I still haven’t got gnump3d working yet though.
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Posted on February 1st, 2007 in Computer, Blog by Mumbles
Well the site is almost looking like i want it to. the bottom menus could do with a bit of work on the positioning but at least they are working now. I have restructured some pages so stuff makes sense more. I will also try to post a bit more often now as well. I might try and see what the asides plug in dose.
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Posted on December 3rd, 2006 in Wordpress, Computer, Sitenews, Blog by Mumbles
Well my new theme is finally finished. thanks for waiting everyone. It needs a name - right now its called personaltheme any ideas welcome.
< well i say finished - theres still a few things to put in but it works and looks like it should >
And the downtime on www.alt-f4.co.uk had finished about 2 days ago. So thats backup now.
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Posted on June 19th, 2006 in Work Experiance, Camping, Computer, Scouts, Blog by Mumbles
Today I took some photos whilst I was in work experience.
Ravenswood
The other images are ones from the new scout marquee which is 4 by 10 meters.
The last lot of photos are from my sisters boyfriend’s modal plane that we are building. It’s a zaggy with an interesting sunburst design done in 2 inch colored type. 
And heres the large virsion of the new icon that im using. http://mumbles-uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/manny4.thumbnail.jpg
My new icon
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Posted on June 18th, 2006 in Work Experiance, Computer, Blog by Mumbles
After noticing a few errors popping up on both my laptop and my desktop I decide to do a reinstall after trying to fix the problem.
I start the desktop reinstall on Wednesday night; I manage to get most of the drivers installed but no programs. So I sign up to logmein.com and install that then go into work experience on Thursday after making shore all the cds for the programs are either in the cd drives or on the HDD.
Thursday is slightly on the quite side (after lugging computers about most of the day Wednesday im quite glad) so after doing a few jobs in the morning I power up my laptop and sign on to logmein.com I then end up spending parts of the day installing programs remotely and go home (after watching the football and having a bbq) to a computer that’s about 80% done.
Friday and Saturday is spent doing not much, apart from going into Bromley to sign on.
Sunday is my sister’s conformation so I have do dress up and go into church for the first time in ages. After that we have a BBQ with family and friends invited. Everyone cant make it so we end up eating some of the food and saving some for later on. I then start to reformat my laptop.
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Posted on June 4th, 2006 in Computer, Sitenews, Blog by Mumbles
I know own a licence for mint- so expect lots of blog posts about stats and user searches.. my Technorati Rank: 262,272 (77 links from 13 sites) has gone up.
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