{"id":1307,"date":"2006-10-21T16:57:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T19:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2006-10-21T16:59:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T19:59:57","slug":"the-tech-and-then-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"The tech and then that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">V<\/span>ia <a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/some_giant_laptop.jpg\" title=\"That's too big of a laptop\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/some_giant_laptop.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"That's too big of a laptop\" \/><\/a>Slashdot (the <a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/hardware\/06\/10\/21\/1437202.shtml\">thread<\/a>) a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/crave.cnet.co.uk\/video\/0,139101587,49284379,00.htm\">video<\/a> at C-Net showcasing a Dell laptop with a 20 inch screen. That&#8217;s godawful laptop too, as you can tell from the faces of the people nearby the guy carrying the &#8216;thing&#8217;. Weren&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/osborne.html\">Osbornes<\/a> this kind of heavy too? Some progress<sup>1<\/sup>.\n<\/p>\n<p>I read that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/ie\/default.mspx\">Internet Explorer 7<\/a> was officially released this week. What has changed? Too many things to list from the user perspective. Bar none from the Web designer&#8217;s perspective. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtalbot.org\/BrowserBugsSection\/MSIE7Bugs\/\">Too many bugs<\/a><sup>2<\/sup>. It will be interesting too see how many existing software packages broke because of the upgrade.\n<\/p>\n<p>The US elections are around the corner, and while that&#8217;s not so interesting, the problems with the Diebold voting are. Yesterday, someone sent a former Maryland legislator the <em>original<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/bal-te.md.voting20oct20,0,5237249.story?coll=bal-home-headlines\">sourcecode of the Diebold voting machines<\/a>. That Diebold apparently has contacted the FBI to check the disks out, so apparently this is a serious leak. Which reminds me: Just a week ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/10\/15\/dutch-government-orders-reforms-in-response-to-hacked-voting-mac\/\">the Dutch government<\/a> apparently ordered all software to be replaced in voting machines after an independent group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl\/Nedap-en\">managed to &#8216;hack&#8217; one of &#8217;em<\/a>. The group&#8217;s articles are interesting. If I&#8217;m not wrong, these are older machines that have been around for a while. And hey, they&#8217;re powered by the 68000 processor.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><sup>1<\/sup> I guess the progress is in the 20&#8243; screen&#8230;<br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?s=IE7&#038;searchsubmit=Go\">Earlier on xsamplex<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Slashdot (the thread) a link to a video at C-Net showcasing a Dell laptop with a 20 inch screen. That&#8217;s godawful laptop too, as you can tell from the faces of the people nearby the guy carrying the &#8216;thing&#8217;. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1307\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}