Category: Computer
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Visiting An Unmanned Robotic Telepresence Store
The store itself was “empty”, but the human being interacted with people through the robots. Those robots have wheeled base and two posts that support a screen. Two models are available: $17000 (6 hours battery) or $2000 (2 hours battery). I chatted with remote salespeople, I also test drove one unit (a unit that physically…
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Part 2, Google Voice Shutdown 3rd Party VoIP Interface
Part 2, Google Voice Shutdown 3rd Party VoIP Interface This is a follow up of the first video, nothing has changed from Google, so you still need to act. Google Voice is going to shutdown the XMPP VoIP interface for 3rd party products such as ATA (for example Obihai device) or GrooVeIP app. This will…
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Google Voice Shutdown 3rd Party VoIP Interface
Google Voice Shutdown 3rd Party VoIP Interface Google Voice is going to shutdown the XMPP VoIP interface for 3rd party products such as ATA (for example Obihai device) or GrooVeIP apps. This will happen after May 15, 2014. So at minimum you need to do something about it because after that date those 3rd party…
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Amazon Web Service, Part 1 Beanstalk
What is cloud services? What is horizontal scaling? I will use an example of porting a website onto Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) to explain various basic services. We use Beanstalk as an example because Beanstalk is easy to setup in the beginning. However Beanstalk is not as flexible, so if you are more serious on…
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Real Time Scheduling Part 1
Real Time Scheduling Part 1 In this video, I am going to focus on the classical static real time algorithm, the Rate Monotonic Scheduling. This algorithm is used in many real time operating systems. RMS assume to be under the following conditions: Uni-processor Preemptible Periodic Independent Fixed priority Hard deadline If you are not…