I use these things all the time, but some folks might not know all of them. Unfortunately, Ian thought of writing about them first, so I have to give him the honors:
The Three Most Under-utilized Keyboard Shortcuts | Gizmo’s Tech Support Alert
According to my buddy Steve Bass, over at PCWorld.Com, the latest MS update to correct the DNS vulnerability keeps folks using ZA Free Edition from accessing the Internet after reboot.
If you have any friends using Zone Alarm’s free firewall along with Windows Auto Update, it might be nice to give them a call (they won’t […]
Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer — from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers. Listen for the story of the very first artificial life — stored on a deck of IBM punchcards and ready to come alive again. Watch this talk on […]
Firefox 3 launched today — Download Day — and it’s time to upgrade to the best browser ever, IMNSHO. Your opinion, of course, may vary — but it doesn’t make you right. :p You can download it here. Do it today and help Mozilla set a 1-day download record that will be […]
AMD’s FireStream 9250: first processor to top 1 Teraflop - Engadget
AMD’s second generation FireStream 9250 just broke the single-precision teraflop barrier at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany.
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind […]
The demonstrated software was more or less the same demos we saw with Surface—photo scaling, finger painting, splashing about in water—along with a Virtual Earth/Google Earth-style mapping program. And that’s the extent of it. That’s all that was demonstrated. The demoed software appeared to have a new taskbar, but no details on this were forthcoming; […]
Modern nomads carry almost no paper because they access their documents on their laptop computers, mobile phones or online. Increasingly, they don’t even bring laptops. Many engineers at Google, the leading internet company and a magnet for nomads, travel with only a BlackBerry, iPhone or other “smart phone”. If ever the need arises for a […]
I ended up at Best Buy, and got a 22″ LCD (with zero dead/stuck pixels) for $229. Picture’s bright and gorgeous, excellent text clarity, good contrast (1000+/1) so photos look good, etc.
The big surprise to me was the brand: Fred Langa: What comes next?: an old brand returns to high tech
Electronics obsolescence—also known as DMSMS, for
diminishing manufacturing sources and material
shortages—is a huge problem for designers who build
[…]
P.A. Semi was founded in 2003 by veterans of a number of successful chip design projects, including DEC’s Alpha and StrongARM processor families. Correctly guessing that power use would become an increasingly significant factor due to rising energy prices and an increasingly mobile world, the company designed an impressively efficient chip, the PA6T-1682M. The dual-core […]
I just downloaded a 1.5 MB .exe file from Microsoft to validate my many-times-validated copy of XP SP2, so that I could download a 524KB hotfix because the geniuses who programmed SP2 didn’t have enough imagination to consider that SD cards might someday hold more than 4GB.
And Microsoft thinks we ought to just roll over […]
With all of the attention that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) update (and the administration’s vigorous attempts to immunize the criminals telcos), it seems like a good time to explore the issues surrounding surveillance and privacy in America today.
While there are many scary things being done by intelligence and law
enforcement, hope is not far […]
As David Kushner gushed in Rolling Stone: “The long epoch of top-down culture… is fading faster than anyone predicted. The more vibrant world is bottom-up, powered by the people. Make a video, put it online; download a song, remix it, put it back up… With cheap computers, free software, broadband access and enough Mountain Dew, […]
Get yourself an XP system while you still can - WindowsSecrets.com
With Windows XP scheduled to disappear from store shelves on June 30, time is running out to buy a computer with that venerable OS preinstalled.
The company will use the name Atom in marketing a new microprocessor line that has two variants. One chip, previously known by the code name Silverthorne, is designed to be the calculating engine for pocket-sized gadgets that Intel calls MIDs, for mobile Internet devices. The other chip to carry the Atom brand, code-named Diamondville, is […]
“Most disk-encryption systems can be defeated if the computer is stolen or accessed while it is in sleep mode or in a password-protected screen saver,” Felten wrote. Vista’s BitLocker “is also sometimes vulnerable even when the computer is completely off.”
Cold-Boot Attack Can Crack Disk Encryption @ Sci-Tech Today
“… At least two major global corporations, one American and one Dutch, have told their executives not to carry confidential business material on laptops on overseas trips, Gurley said. In Canada, one law firm has instructed its lawyers to travel to the United States with “blank laptops” whose hard drives contain no data. “We just […]
A rough 24 hours for Windows users - 81.01% affected - Blog - Secunia
The title pretty much says it all. During the last 24 hours, we have seen security updates for some very popular Windows programs from four major vendors: Sun, Adobe, Apple, and Skype.
Symantec uninstaller may not finish the job - WindowsSecrets.com
Like most Windows software, Norton security products, published by the Symantec Corp., come with an uninstall option to remove the software from your computer.
Unfortunately, neither Symantec’s bundled uninstaller — nor a little-known, special utility from the company — removes every single thing.
