Tagged: Electronics and Electrical

DHS Cybersecurity Watchdogs Miss Hundreds of Vulnerabilities on Their Own Network Threat Level Wired.com

DHS Cybersecurity Watchdogs Miss Hundreds of Vulnerabilities on Their Own Network Threat Level Wired.com.  Too often you see these kind of gaps in systems that consultants have worked on.

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iPhone 4.0.2 guzzling my battery. Yours too?

[131/365] AIM Beta Push Notifications
Image by Ben Dodson via Flickr

Lawrence Finch suggests:

Reset Network Settings and reboot, then go into Settings and delete the Push email account entirely. Reboot, and add it back.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – 4.0.2 guzzling my battery. Yours too? ….

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Microwave cooks itself photo

Um, Why Did My Frigidaire Microwave Randomly Catch Fire? – The Consumerist.  This is concerning.  I had a laptop power adapter that failed in a similar fashion.  It shorted out.  The companies response was terrible.  This would have been a disaster if his home electrical system hadn’t worked properly.

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Boogie Board Paperless LCD Writing Tablet

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Boogie Board Paperless LCD Writing Tablet.  Very cool.   From their website.

The next time you reach for a piece of paper and a pen – Don’t! Grab a Boogie Board instead, the tree-friendly alternative to memo pads, sketchbooks, sticky notes, dry erase boards and other writing/drawing mediums that can be re-used over 50,000 times!

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Remotely involved (via woody’s blog)

Remote controls are cool. I bought a cheap fan this summer to keep cool and it had a remote. So I guess they really cost nothing to make.

Remotely involved . It was in the summer of 1958, I was about 10 years old, when I first came in contact with a remote control device. We were on our  ”summer vacation” visiting my rich uncle in Washington D. C. Uncle Leonard was a doctor and a very smart man. He was a bit of a joker and a great teacher.  To introduce me to the power of  geometric progression, he once gave me a penny and said if I doubled it every day for a month, I would have over a million dol … Read More

via woody’s blog

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Recharge Batteries on your PC (via Going Green @your library)

So are we going to USB everything?

Recharge Batteries on your PC From NYT personal tech section article: Batteries that can Recharge on your PC.  These batteries look like an ordinary AA battery, but peeling back the little green cap that crowns the top reveals a USB port – recharge w/o  additional wires or connectors. They cost about $17 for 2 of them but can be recharged 100s of times so well worth the cost. … Read More

via Going Green @your library

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