Thought this article was pretty cool for a finals project:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/offtheshelf-expedition-takes-flight-20091014-gw6o.html
The idea was to launch my system into the stratosphere to an altitude of about 100,000 feet (30,480 metres) using a weather balloon. At that altitude, it could take pictures (hopefully) showing the blackness of space above and the curvature of the Earth below.
Bit of an [...]
Entries from October 2009
Student sends camera into stratosphere
October 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Networking · Other
Test post
October 14th, 2009 · No Comments
This is a test post
Tags: Uncategorized
Parallels PBAS failing PCI tests
October 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Parallels Business Automation (PBA) version Build ID: 3.3.3-07.23 appears to introduce a number of PCI compliance issues which causes PCI compliance to fail. The issue was picked up by a PCI scan after upgrade PBAS from 3.3.3-06.48 to 3.3.3-07.23.
The release notes say the following bugs have been addressed, but, appear not to have been:
3225 (267935) [...]
Tags: Control Panels · Operating System
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising not the game people had hoped
October 12th, 2009 · No Comments
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising was recently released but appears not the game people had hoped. Many fans of the original military simulator Operation Flashpoint, developed by Bohemia Interactive and published by codemasters, flocked to get their hands on the newly released game. Codemasters decided to release this game themselves and got rid of Bohemia Interactive.
Unfortunately [...]
Tags: Gaming
Ominous start for Iverson
October 12th, 2009 · No Comments
In a tweet at 5:09 AM Aug 18th Allen Iverson (http://twitter.com/alleniverson) said:
Getting in shape, running, lifting and thinking about which team that I will
help compete for a championship! Whoever gets me will be happy
5:09 AM Aug 18th from web
But, the other day Yahoo reported that “Iverson could miss up to 3 weeks with hamstring”. (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AmGvcNasV9QEVFagUTKPyHm8vLYF?slug=ap-grizzlies-iverson&prov=ap&type=lgns)
Here’s [...]
Tags: Sport