TameBear: Big IdeasBrainstorms for a better tomorrow. A TameBear weblog.(Untitled)- May 27, 2006 Solar Powered: In this followup to last year's "Preparing for Solar" episode, the Bear interviews webmaster Peter Oakley to learn more about the solar electric power system that was installed at his home office this Spring. Pete describes how solar panels work, the components of the system, interconnection with the electric utility grid, battery backup, environmental reasons for going solar, total cost and payback. A very informative episode for everyone interested in reducing their ecological..http://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/ideas/2006/05/26.html#a778 (Untitled)- May 5, 2006 Native Speaker: Tame Bear surmised back in January (see "Apple Rosetta Stealth", Jan 20, 2006) that Apple was laying the groundwork for everyone to run Windows apps on Intel Macintosh computers -- without running the Microsoft Windows OS! Now Robert X. Cringely has picked up this same theme, reminding readers that Apple already has a license to implement the Windows XP API, and they can do it natively on their new Intel Macs. So Windows XP users could get a Mac to run all their current software.http://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/ideas/2006/05/05.html#a770 |