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I was researching database scraping and the deep web and I ran across this article from Consumerist.com and I haven’t looked up all the information, but it is an interesting list of places to look and see information about oneself. Employment History Reports Tenant History Reports 6th and 7th at site, good for 40th and 57th in 5-state areaOctober 26, 2009 Two Knox College computer programming teams finished among the top teams in the region, in the ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition held Saturday, October 24 at the University of Illinois-Springfield. In the annual competition sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, teams had five hours to solve nine programming problems of varying difficulty. 
Walker, Johnson, McGeeney, Samoore, Guy, Poley
The Knox Gold Team — senior Peter Walker, junior George Guy and sophomore Casey Samoore — solved four problems and finished sixth among 15 teams at the University of Illinois site. In the official results, the team finished in 40th place overall among the 148 teams that competed at ten sites in the Mid-Central USA Region, which includes Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas.Solving the same number of problems, four of nine, but taking a few minutes longer, the Knox Purple Team — senior Eleanor Poley, junior Camile Johnson, and first-year Jason McGeeney — finished seventh at the Illinois-Springfield site and in 57th place in the region. Placements were determined by both time and number of problems solved.
Continue reading Knox Computer Programming Teams Among Best in Region The NY Times discusses the issues, solutions, and equipment in the area of wirless home networking. If you didn’t know that powerline networking is working on Gigabit speeds or where you might wish to deploy it check out the full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/technology/personaltech/13basics.html. A reminder that for so many of the current uses, a wired network provides [...] An amazing list of project at Maker Faire where I went to volunteer last weekend. I had a great time and worked hard. I have a number of stories to tell from the faire and pix to upload and they will all come in a rush over the next week. I would have been sooner, but [...] Reprinted from Engadget.com In these difficult times people are looking to buy what’s cheap, a state of mind that Vizio’s iSuppli’s latest press release isn’t ashamed to apply, lauding the company’s status as the current most popular brand of LCD television in these United States. It owned a 21.6 percent chunk of the US LCD TV market in the first quarter, up from 13.8 in the quarter before and beat out Samsung to be king of the liquid crystal hill — largely thanks to prices that were, on average, between $150 and $400 lower than the competition. Kudos to the brand and we hope that it enjoys this moment, because with imports of new sets banned out on bond it must be tough paying an extra $2.50 on each one coming through Customs. Full press release after the break. Continue reading Bargain hunters make Vizio LCDs most popular in US — for now http://icehot.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-best-ubuntu-video-editors/ Check out this post to find out details on a group of video editors, while they have instructions for loading with Ubuntu, they are available on multiple distros and some even [...] |
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