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Technology
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12.11.07Ten Year F1 Engine Freeze - Why?I was honestly surprised to read this week that the FIA has ratified a ten-year engine freeze for F1 motor sport. F1 teams must deliver an engine design to the FIA no later than the 31st of March next year, and must stick to that design through the 2017 season. The reasoning the FIA has given for this is that F1 engines are already incredible pieces of machinery, revving to 19,000 RPM whilst still being surprisingly reliable. While this might be true, F1 has always been the pinnacle of motoring - demonstrating what could be possible in consumer motoring in the ...
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11.12.07AIR, Web Applications, and Web 3.0A post over on WinExtra and my recent dabble with Adobe's excellent AIR have me thinking about the further evolution of the internet. The WinExtra post gives a good background into what I am about to say, so it is worth reading beforehand. Let me begin by saying that overall, I agree with what Steven is saying. The current crop of web applications are cool, and certainly have their place insofar as they are convenient for those working in multiple locations and on different computers, but in the end that convenience looses out to the loss in functionality. What is really ...
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11.04.07Microsoft Exchange to Gmail Migration with IMAP(Yes, an update. I know it's been a while, but I will try to blog more regularly.) While I understand Google had to do a lot behind the scenes to ensure that actions mapped into Gmail properly, it has been a long wait for long-time Gmail users like me to get IMAP support in Google's mail product. I've been using Microsoft Exchange for email for a while, but with my reshuffling of jobs, I found I no longer need the advanced features that it provides. Instead, with the new addition of IMAP access (a necessity in my books), I decided ...