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Motion sensors in laptops are not new, IBM’s Thinkpads had several series that utilized it. But what is new is the ability to program the sensors to do some cool things. Apple’s Sudden Motion Sensor in the new PowerBooks detect strong vibrations or sudden motion and park the drives. Now the sensor can detect the angle of the PowerBook and the velocity of the movement. This makes for a hacker’s delight.
Making computer chips is not as easy as it sounds. Manufacturers throw out 20–50% of the chips they make because of defects. According to a USC professor, Melvin Breuer, many of these defects are so minor that the chips could still be used in video cards and audio applications without a problem. He feels that if the manufacturers could identify these chips, they could resell them and drive the cost of electronic devices down to an amount in the billions of dollars each year of savings.
Internet Week says that the Internet Storm Center tracked a large-scaled attack over the weekend. It attacked hosting servers and turned them into distributors of the malicious code. "It seems that the attack used both direct and indirect means to infect users, said the ISC. In some cases, a script was appended to all home pages of the sites hosted
We all have heard of the linux distributions that could be booted from a CD, now we can do the same thing with Windows. It's called BartPE (BART Pre-installed Enviroment). It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing
As my collection of MP3s, DVDs, and Mpegs has grown I often thought to myself, Why cant my Tivo help me with all this media? Then I started searching the Internet to see what was out there that I could use as a PC based alternative. I found numerous software packages that would fit the bill. Some of the programs
It's been reported that Apple has officially backed the Blu-ray Disc format and will be appointed to the Association's Board of Directors. Blu-ray is the planned next-gen DVD format. It will allow up to 50 gigs of storage on a scratch-resistant, low-cost, encrypted DVD. Companies that support this format are, among others, Dell, HP, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita (Panasonic), Mitsubishi,
During the CeBIT in Germany this week, Motorola is showing off their new ROKR iTunes cellphone which will sync and carry your iTunes music in your cell phone. But Samsung is one upping the ROKR with a 3 GB hard drive cellphone with a Windows Mobile OS. Samsung has also released a new 7 MP camera phone which resembles a