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February 2003

95 posts

The Flash Mind Reader

I played with this thing for a while and it took me about 60 seconds to figure it out. Once you figure it out you will slap yourself in the head. I wonder how many of you will come back and ask how did they do it. I will publish how they did it in the comments section tomorrow. :)

Duct Tape Anyone?

We have all been watching the news and when officials in this country start saying some of the things they have been saying for the past week I think it behooves us to listen. If you haven't followed the precautions that they have been outlining you should. I think it would be worth the minimal amount of money outlay to

House, Senate agree to prohibit citizens’ e-mail surveillance

Credit needs to be given to the above headline as I copied it from the Star Tribune it was to good to pass up. I believe everyone has a right to privacy as outlined by the Constitution and laws that make up this great country. I want my government to be able to find and prosecute the bad guys. I

Make your PC a TiVo

This is the article I have been waiting for. Although I am a bit skeptic and still want the real deal. You can easily acquire the components needed to make it happen read on! [Business Week]

Identity Theft watch your 6

Identity theft has gotten out of control and if you have any sort of on-line presence you need to be covering your 6 at all cost. The article in Business Week brings the point home. I want to give you some resources where you can check your credit to insure you are not being duped. Equifax has a credit watch

Cyberbegging

Not sure why it took the AP Writer so long to pick up on this but it seems more sites are picking up on the art of asking for money. Heck we even have a donation link on our page not that I expect it to ever produce anything. Some have had shameless pleas that have actually earned them some

Moore’s Law good for another 10 years?

Gordon Moore says his theory will be valid for another 10 years with a lot of work. I think he is absolutely right but I think his theory will continue to be valid much longer than that. After all we will need bigger faster processors seeing that programmers continue to produce more bloat ware. [News.com] "Moore's Law: States that the

Spam Spam go away Spam!

I can only think that there are some real stupid people out there acting on spam messages. Otherwise why would they still be coming in by the thousands. I think the reason we are getting so many is dumb people are e-mailing a million people at a time hoping that 1% of 1% respond. Enough is enough someone has to

Have a Vinyl Record Laying Around? Play it via your scanner!

Yes the headline is correct. Someone with absolutely to much time on his hands scanned some vinyl records programmed up a decoder and has some samples of his results. The results are mixed. But he should have done what I did a couple of years ago. I have a high end turn-table and I made digital masters of my analog

RIAA: Trust No one not even Re-Sellers

Companies that sell music on-line will have the music they sell tracked to insure that companies do not fudge the sales numbers. They will be using a new technology called Global Release Identifier, or GRid. Seems the RIAA is so worried about resellers that they are going to be looking over there shoulders. Next thing we will find out is

New Batteries for our Gadgets coming

I hate it when my notebook battery goes dead. Well a great deal is being done in the battery design market and a new company is creating a radically new battery construction design using Silicon that can lead to longer battery life. [News.com]

You thought your closet was a mess have you looked at your Hard-drive

Wired has a very interesting article that talks about the Junk people have on there hard-drives. Jeez I am as guilty as everyone else. I know that I spent about 2 days 6-months ago organizing my laptop data and deleted a great deal of junk. I was lucky that my home machine was mirrored to my laptop so I was

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