Unique RFID uses

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September 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Morticians who are gathering bodies from hurricane Katrina have been using RFID chips to track victims. This has been helping speed recovery and identification of the bodies. This has allowed morticians to match the victims up with their families sooner, ending a long, dark chapter in familys’ lives.

Backup4All

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September 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Softland has a backup software suite called Backup4all. I was asked to do a review of their professional version of the software. I will look at a few areas: installation, features, interface/usability, and price.
Installation
Installation was a snap. I downloaded the software and then inputted the given software key. This unlocked it […]

Firefox could Ground You

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September 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment

You may not have updated Firefox. And you may be sorry when you are hit with the command line url shell command injection. Yeah, easy for me to say. If you use windows, you are in luck, you are not affected. This exploit can only happen to users on *nix platforms. […]

The Name Game

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September 22, 2005 | 1 Comment

Here’s a dandy of a problem that some of you may be having. The picture above shows an ipconfig reading. To obtain this, do the following: click on “start”, click on “run”, type “cmd”(XP or Win2k) or “command”(win 9x), at the black dos box type “ipconfig /all” . Here is the […]

Don’t Ride this Wave

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September 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Hurricane Katrina woke the US, and probably the world, up to the power of hurricanes. Hurricanes are a heat driven engine. They pull warmth up from the ocean below and expend that energy in wind, rain production, and cold exhaust on the top of the hurricane (8 miles high). So how much […]

Flock to It

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September 18, 2005 | 2 Comments

Social Networking can create an unbelievable swell of marketing buzz. That’s exactly what has happened to Flock. Flock is the brain child of Bart Decrem (from the famed Mozilla Foundation) and a cohort of programmers (some also from Mozilla). Flock is touting itself as the “social” browser. Bookmarks are replaced by […]

Can You Hear Me Now?

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September 6, 2005 | 4 Comments

The amount of research and ingenuity that goes into building the military killing machine is staggering. Two non-lethal technologies aim to deceive in strategic ways. Microwave voice effects have been talked about since World War II. Radar technicians often referred to strange side effects when operating stations. Technicians commented that they […]