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Thursday, July 31st, 2008from gigaom…. To summarise,
It’s not secure. Certain companies and industries have to maintain strict watch on their data at all times, either because they’re legally obligated to or because they’re super paranoid.
It can’t be logged, required for compliance purposes.
It’s not platform agnostic. If you need to support multiple platforms, as most enterprises do, then you’re [...]
Custom Hardware Gadgets With BUG
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Bug Labs seems to have a very promising concept. The company allows you to order different hardware modules, like a camera, a screen, a touch sensitive device (some still in development) and so on. Then, you can stick these modules onto the base gadget, and via a Java-based programming environment, add your own functionality to [...]
newsflash - X-BOX DRM sucks
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008From CodingHorror
Submarine cables and Internet Availability
Monday, February 11th, 2008According to reports, the internet blackout, which left 75 million people with only limited access, was caused by a ship that tried to moor off the coast of Egypt in bad weather on Wednesday Jan 30. Both phone and internet traffic was severely reduced across a huge swath of the region, including India, Egypt [...]
Disable the speaker beeps on Windows
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Aaron Tiensivu has posted the commands you need to know to shut off the Windows speaker beep temporarily or for all time.
To temporarily disable the PC Speaker beep:
net stop beep
To disable the PC Speaker beep for good (until you undo this setting):
sc config beep start= disabled
Now you don’t need to run out of the [...]
Australia - Myer loses exclusivity on eeePC
Monday, January 14th, 2008ASUS has announced that Myer has lost its exclusive position as the only retailer of the Eee PC in Australia. ASUS will now sell the bargain priced sub-notebook through Betta Electrical, David Jones, Good Guys, Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Myer, Officeworks, Retravision and WOW Sight & Sound.
Hacking the Eee PC
$499 Linux subnotebook to go mainstream
It’s [...]
Password Recovery using Geforce 8 Video Cards
Saturday, January 5th, 2008The software Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery was designed for distributed recovery of lost passwords by providing hardware acceleration for NTLM password recovery using GeForce 8 video cards which speeds up the process by a factor of up to 25).
The product comes at a price though which is only affordable to companies. I still thought [...]
Turn one PC into two for free
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008How do you like the sound of taking one machine, and having two people logged into it simultaneously? Sounds pretty neat to me – and it’s free too, which is always a tick in the right box.
Canadian company Userful markets Linux-based desktop multiplier and public access computing solutions – effectively turning one system into an [...]
Return of the Heathkit HE-RObot
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008via GeekDad
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The History of Computers, on YouTube
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008The Computer History Museum has started its own YouTube channel, with a slew of lectures and demonstrations from the museum itself. So, if you can’t actually go to Mountain View to see it, maybe this is the next best thing!From Slashdot.
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