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Ron K Jeffries - Google+ - #geeky and #OMG QUOTE: [Craig S Wright ] says: I was…
"For those who do not know, 747's are big flying Unix hosts. At the time, the engine management system on this particular airline was Solaris based. The patching was well behind and they used telnet as SSH broke the menus and the budget did not extend to fixing this. The engineers could actually access the engine management system of a 747 in route. If issues are noted, they can re-tune the engine in air."
technology  flight  scada  security  it  networking  vlan  transport  wtf  internet  telnet 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
The Post Office Railway (Mail Rail) | Silent UK – Urban & Underground Photography
"It is without a doubt the Mail Rail sits at the throne, laughing maniacally at the puny adventurers unable to even stare it in the eyes without bursting into flames, the pinnacle of exploration in London, if not England. There is, and will never be anything like it again, its uniqueness "forever unrivalled, London’s final unconquered “Grail” now a slain beast.
underground  photography  abandoned  london  interesting  cool  images  blog  transport  train 
april 2011 by milkmiruku
Nissan gives silent electric cars 'Blade Runner' appeal | Los Angeles Times
“We decided that if we’re going to do this, if we have to make sound, then we’re going to make it beautiful and futuristic,” Toshiyuki Tabata, Nissan’s noise and vibration expert, told Bloomberg. “We wanted something a bit different, something closer to the world of art.”
news  cars  technology  hardware  sound  futuristic  electriccar  legal  transport 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Hydrogen car to be 'open source'
"The manufacturer of a hydrogen car unveiled in London on Tuesday will make its designs available online so the cars can be built and improved locally."

Features the use of ultracapacitors.
bbc  news  transport  cars  opensource  design  mechanics  uk  travel  interesting  predction  hydrogen 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
Christian Voice: Press Release
"We always knew the ASA was just another tool of the politically-correct secularist establishment, but here's the proof."
news  uk  transport  advertising  advert  religion  humanism  law  humour  secular 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
Tiny boat skims over water like a bug - tech - 14 January 2009 - New Scientist
"WATCHING Sung Kwon Cho's model boat glide silently across the still water with no propellers or sails, you'd be forgiven for thinking a phantom hand was drawing the vessel forward. The boat is actually being driven by water surface tension, the same force that allows some insects to skate across the surface of a pond."
news  robot  water  transport  interesting  cool  technology 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
brad's life - Android Garage Door Opener, part 2
"it figures out using wi-fi signals when Brad is approaching his house, so even if he turns it on an hour before it won't actually open until he's close by. This isn't possible on other phones because they don't let you get access to the wi-fi bits to do AP scanning."
blog  technology  wifi  googleandroid  opensource  mobiles  transport  cool  geek 
october 2008 by milkmiruku
NASA's New Lunar Rover
"The Chariot lunar rover would serve as a mobile home away from home for astronauts venturing from a lunar base to explore the lunar surface."
news  space  nasa  technology  travel  transport  science  moon 
october 2008 by milkmiruku
BLASPHEMING BUSES WILL BURN IN HELL, SAY CHRISTIANS - The Daily Mash
"director of Christian Voice"Any bus which allows itself to be abused in this way will spend eternity in the company of Satan's bus. They will burn alongside gay buses, buses that have had abortions and buses that knowingly took people to see Jerry Springer: the Opera."
news  transport  philosophy  atheism  religion  humour  hate  marketing  advert  advertising 
october 2008 by milkmiruku
kanYe West : Blog - ANIME INSPIRED GADGETS
"Kaneda's Bike from the Anime Classic Akira is currently being replicated by Neo Fukuoka, and is a fully-functional vehicle."
blog  motorcycle  anime  technology  travel  images  transport  cool 
august 2008 by milkmiruku
The Buzzball, A Motorized Hampster Ball For Humans | Laughing Squid
"At the heart of the Buzzball is a dual motor configuration, enabling the pilot to control the motion and direction of travel via left and right control triggers, which provides power to the driving wheels."
blog  travel  technology  hardware  sport  ball  interesting  cool  iwant  hamster  cars  transport 
july 2008 by milkmiruku
Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network | The Register
""He studied the trams and the tracks for a long time and then built a device that looked like a TV remote control and used it to manoeuvre the trams and the tracks," said Miroslaw Micor, a spokesman for Lodz police."
poland  news  hardhack  hack  humour  prank  security  technology  transport  weird  travel  trams 
january 2008 by milkmiruku
Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway (Joe Clark)
"The Toronto subway has a typographic heritage all its own, starting with a unique font. But, with renovation after renovation and after a series of new station additions, signage and wayfinding in the system are a total mess."
aesthetics  architecture  design  typography  history  canada  underground  modernism  transport  article  urbanism 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
Lothian Buses
Lothian Buses timetable site.
edinburgh  transport  resource  tools  busses 
may 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | 'Start pushing', passengers asked
"It took them more than half an hour to move the electric train 12ft (4m) so that it touched live overhead wires and was able to resume its journey."
bbc  news  india  transport  humour  culture 
may 2007 by milkmiruku
Parking Lot Presence at Ignite Realtime
"It turns out that the sensors and lights are just the beginning of a system that is designed to direct drivers to available parking slots efficiently without the need to drive up and down aisles looking for that elusive open spot."
technology  transport  interesting  cars  productivity 
january 2007 by milkmiruku
train
"Ongoing research into the language and aesthetics of mobility, which aims to build a mobile transportation unit that moves along a disused railway track."
transport  urbanism  images  interesting  art 
january 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Flatulence leads US jet to divert
"An American Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Nashville after passengers reported the smell of sulphur from burning matches."
news  america  flight  transport  security  humour 
december 2006 by milkmiruku
Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | I'm all for putting more vehicles on our roads. As long as they're coaches
"A better organised, more attractive network could get people around faster, save tonnes of carbon - and cost almost nothing."
politics  travel  uk  transport  busses 
december 2006 by milkmiruku

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