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Tracking your kids

Most parents have had that gut sinking feeling when a small child becomes separated from the parent while you are either out in the community or the child has left the yard and god forbid kidnapped. Companies are starting to offer tracking devices that can be put on your child to quickly locate the child. I can imagine there are

Selling an old Hardrive? Maybe you should smash it!

I never sell old hard drives. I probably have 25 of them laying around everything from 115 megs to 4 gigs. I use them for book-stops and various other geek uses. After all the 1.6 gig Maxtor I paid a $1000.00 dollars for not so many years ago sits on my desk and arouses interesting conversations on technology and where

What happened at Geek News Central

For about 2 weeks I have been working with my hosting provider to have my account moved to a new machine due to some performance issues. We were on a Windows server and had planned on staying on a Windows server. Well we ended up on a Unix server and had a mess on our hands. It did not help

Wired News: Hitting P2P Users Where It Hurts

Companies are finding it impossible to snuff out file sharing so If you can't snuff the P2P Networks then the next best thing is make available one those same networks thousands of damaged copies of programs and music. The battle continues. [Wired]

WiFi Sniffer

I am glad someone thought up this product. I hate having to boot my laptop to see if there is a WiFi connection in the area. This credit card size device is pretty simple press the button on the detector and you get a Green light if there is a Wifi Connection available. It's only drawback is that there is

Kevin Mitnick’s Bio Part 1

Seems Kevin Mitnick's publishers would not publish the short Bio he wanted included in his recent book "Art of Deception" But you can read it here [The Register]