I recently added more memory to an old laptop we have around the house and thought others might like to see how easy it is.
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If you are like me and are interested in Shuttle launches you will likely be interested in tracking STS128 once in orbit. My favorite, and free, tracking software can be found at http://www.stoff.pl/. The TLE found below can be used to track the Shuttle in orbit!

Update:
ISS
1 25544U 98067A 09250.15520818 .00006405 00000-0 48333-4 0 5622
2 25544 51.6389 246.0582 0009207 62.4357 28.9281 15.73974960618866
STS 128
1 35811U 09045A 09249.75687500 .00006401 00000-0 48317-4 0 256
2 35811 51.6393 248.1040 0009297 60.7620 292.0035 15.73969415 1354

Today I was glad to see that the FLEX-5000C had arrived! Since people love unboxing posts on gadget sites, I'll do the same here for a new category of amateur radio transceiver.
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Today at the whiteboard I am thinking about drywall. You know the common building material used for interior walls. To be honest I am actually focused on the empty space behind the drywall that is completely void of use.

When I talk to friends in the ubiquitous computing research arena I usually hear the same expectations:
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Why is Google getting into the OS game?
My €0.02 (got vacation on the brain):

This is a race to OS dominance in the netbook market. If you believe the business weenies that are hoping for massive sales in developing markets (re: India & China) in low cost laptops (with wireless) then margins are going to be slim. An open source OS on these toys will sound attractive to manufacturers.

Of course Google wants to be annoyingly prolific. One day my company will pay me through “Google Payday”.

On second thought, Google’s motivation might just be that the developers think it’s cool.

My €0.02 question is where is all this bandwidth coming from for the 500 million little laptops to watch Star Wars Kid on YouTube?

Mikael Lugnegård, a Swedish industrial designer, and his awesome concept roadster for Audi. When can I get one?

As an engineer I tend to see patterns in those of us who choose this profession. No one does a better job of describing our kind as An Engineering Mind. Check out Todd's website and send the link to your recruiting department!

Hello bing.com and m.bing.com users. I am happy to see that bing.com is second to only google.com in sending people to my site! In the last month it is second by just over 10%. I am not picking sides on the search/decision engine debate. I only desire there to be serious competition in this space.

Is it weird that I still went to google.com to find an image of the bing.com logo?

Update: bing.com has taken the lead in referring people to roteno.com

I'll be the first to agree that this post strays from what I would like to have on the Whiteboard. However, on my way home tonight I got an idea that could be useful. While I think it is important for police to perform traffic enforcement I question if we could make small policy changes to traffic enforcement that could improve what I see as two large problems.
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I have been using Twitter for about 6 months now (@roteno) and have found it to be a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I could not find a good client for my HTC Touch Pro with Windows Mobile. That is, until I downloaded Twikini. Since about version 0.95 I have found Twikini to have everything I need as a client. It works great on my phone and I find using Twikini to be much easier than using the twitter.com website. If you use Windows Mobile and are looking for a good Twitter client I recommend that you head over to http://www.trinketsoftware.com/Twikini

Disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer. Trinket software has an offer that will give website owners a free Twikini license if we create a post mentioning the client. As I mentioned above, I recommend this software and look forward to a free license.