Posts by Michael Attenborough

OCZ buys PLX PCIe design smarts operation

Oxford Semi

Would this development centre be what was previously known as Oxford Semiconductor, bought by PLX in 2009?

No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed

RE: Poor Youth

Where do you start? Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) seems like a reasonable place to start these days, and I was happy to see that it is used at my childrens' primary and secondary schools. I did also try teaching my daughter some perl, which she found interesting but she would generally rather be playing Club Penguin...

Vital PARIS supplies jet in from US

construct the structure entirely from...

PVA is Poly-vinyl acetate - so your aircraft will be made of paper and plastic. And wax.

US 'Anubis' stealth assassin robo-missile nearly ready

Getting Cultured

This comes as I'm reading an Iain M Banks book - this looks like the first step to knife missiles...

Revealed: USB 3.0 jacks and sockets

@People who want more power

A standard does actually exist for delivering more power over the USB cable - see www.poweredusb.org. I've never seen it anywhere but in point-of-sale systems, though.