Nothing is more frustrating than dealing with computer problems; after all you do not want to spend your time trying to figure out what is wrong with your computer. Anyone who owns a computer needs to realize that there are certain things that you will have to do to your computer on a routine maintenance to ensure that it is running at its best performance. Read More
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Desktop Or Laptop Computer - Which One Should You Get
You're in the market for a computer, but you just aren't sure which type you want to get. Maybe you're replacing an old desktop that is now a dinosaur. Do you want another desktop or a laptop? Read More
NASA spacecraft to map edge of solar system
NASA spacecraft to map edge of solar system
In a little over two weeks, NASA will launch the first spacecraft designed to image and map the edge of the solar system
In a little over two weeks, NASA will launch the first spacecraft designed to image and map the edge of the solar system
Sandisk Sansa e280 8GB Media Player
Always look on the bright side, say the pink-spectacle crowd. Good advice – if you want to burn out your retinas and go blind! What kind of sucker do these happy freaks think I am? They’re not gonna put one over on Arthur Churlman, host of You’re Not Gonna Put One Over On Me!
Today we’re being asked to believe that the Sandisk Sansa e280 8GB Media Player is not a worthless clod of feces that probably gives you ear cancer. No sale, crooks! For one thing, it’s tiny. Anything this small that costs this much better either be made of solid gold, or get me high when I smoke it.
And I’d have to get zonked on something before I dared share my credit card number with a sleazy fly-by-night outfit like Woot. I guess anybody with a card table and a modem can call themselves an “online store” nowadays. God knows where my credit card number would wind up. Sorry, Russian mafia – find yourself another chump.
Sandisk seems awfully pleased with themselves over the Sansa’s 8GB memory capacity and compact portable size. You know who else is pleased about that? Muggers. While you’re bopping down the street without a care in the world, they’ll jump out, grab your purse or wallet, and probably slash your face a little bit just for fun. You’ll never hear it coming. Don’t be surprised if some of that ill-gotten cash finds its way into the Sandisk coffers.
And let’s talk about this “large” 1.8” TFT color screen for a second. A one-point-eight-inch screen is “large”? In what dollhouse? Hey, Sandisk: don’t puke on my tortilla chips and tell me it’s salsa.
If these bunco artists concentrated as much on making media players as they do on fleecing the consumer flock, the Sandisk Sansa e280 8GB Media Player might be worth more than the space it takes up. As it is, the only thing getting played here is you, you poor ignorant sap. Until the next outrageous scam Woot attempts to foist onto an unsuspecting public, I’m Arthur Churlman – and You’re Not Gonna Put One Over On Me!
Warranty: 90 Day Woot Limited Warranty
Authorized for SquareTrade Extended WarrantyFeatures:
- Sleek, thin design with large 1.8” TFT color screen for easy viewing
- Strong alloy metal casing provides excellent durability and scratch resistance
- Simple to use, backlit controls for fast device interface navigation
- User replaceable and rechargeable Lithium Ion battery for up to 20 hours of battery life
- Features microSD™ expansion slot for additional memory capacity
- Supports SanDisk TrustedFlash and Gruvi content cards
- Digital FM tuner, on-the-fly FM recording, and voice recording
- Supports Subscription Music Stores
Specifications:
- Memory capacity: 8GB
- Memory type: Flash memory
- External memory: MicroSD card slot
- Audio file format: MP3, WMA, WMA-DRM10 (PlaysForSure), WAV
- Hours of music content: 64 hours
- Still image file format: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, GIF
- Video format: AVI, MPEG-1/MPEG-2 in MPEG, MPG, MPE/VOB (unprotected), MPEG-4 in AVI format, DAT, ASF, QuickTime MOV (QuickTime 6.5 or higher required), WMV (Windows Media Player 9 or 10.0 required)
- Tuner type: Digital FM tuner
- Tuner memory: 20
- Display: 1.8-inch TFT color LCD display
- Power supply: Rechargeable lithium ion battery, user replaceable (included), USB charging
- Battery life: Up to 20 hours
- Connectors: Headdphone jack, USB 2.0 port
- Microphone: Built-in microphone
- FM recording: Supported
- Voice recording: Supported
- Microsoft PlaysFor Sure: Supported
- Dimension: 3.5×1.74×0.56 inches (WxHxD)
- Weight: 2.7 ounces
System Requirements:
- Windows XP
- Windows Media Player 10+
- Intel Pentium class PC or higher
- USB 2.0 port required for hi-speed transfer
In the Box:
- Sandisk Sansa e280 4GB Media Player
- USB cable
- Earbuds
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iPod Untangled - Or How to Make Your iPod Wireless!
iPod Untangled - Or How to Make Your iPod Wireless!
It really is easy nowadays to get rid of your wired iPod headsets. You need simply a Bluetooth adapter (transmitter) for your iPod and, of course, a Bluetooth receiver to play back your music.
It really is easy nowadays to get rid of your wired iPod headsets. You need simply a Bluetooth adapter (transmitter) for your iPod and, of course, a Bluetooth receiver to play back your music.
TOR: A Cool project from the Internet
TOR - The Onion Router, is an ingenious bit of collaborative work that produced a really interesting anonymity network.
I'd guess a lot of you reading my blog have probably heard of it already,
or you have stumbled across this site because you are looking up information about or doing homework on one of the following TOR's
before I go much further I'll get past a few technical terms so that those who are less technically inclined can keep up.
At A glance, Onion routing is
The whole idea behind the concept of onion routing is to protect the privacy of both the sender and the recipient of a message - while at the same time providing protection for the message content as it is transmitted.
This feat is accomplished, according to the principal of Chaum's mix cascades, via a number of proxies which can then re-route messages in an unpredictable path.
The biggest advantage of onion routing and mix cascades? its not necessary to trust each cooperating router, even if one or more routers are compromised, communication can still be anonymous because each router accepts messages, re-encrypts them, and transmits to another router. only an attacker with the ability to monitor every onion router in a network would have the ability to trace the path of a message through the network.
without that any attacker would have difficulty even if they contral one or more routers on the messages path.
Downsides:
There are several technical, social and otherwise bad downsides to TOR,
technical:
- DNS leaks: unless you route your dns requests via TOR as well as actual data, you could be compromised via unencrypted dns requests. - this has far reaching consequences, but too detailed to go into here.
- Eaves dropping by exit nodes, any exit node is in the position to capture trafic passing through that doesn't use end to end encryption.
Social:
- Due to the inherent anonymity, TOR has unfortunately been used for illegal purposes, such as child pornography and other illegal uses, this has lead to situations in the past where authorities have seized tor nodes due to this usage.
Applications:
There are a wide variety of applications available that make use of TOR.
Web browsers with Tor
Theres plenty more both im/browser bundles, and full operating system sandboxes, and various tools. easy to find via google.
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I'd guess a lot of you reading my blog have probably heard of it already,
or you have stumbled across this site because you are looking up information about or doing homework on one of the following TOR's
- TOR: Large Outcrop of bedrock. in Granite country tors are typically round boulders: more info
- TOR: Transit of Rockland: moreinfo
- Written Requirements governing EIA implementation...: More Info
- TOR: Horrible Project management acronym for "total operational requirements" or something. no more info for that thanks.
- One of the Two Gods who created the earth and kept the light of truth shining in the Varg's life according to old Norse Mythology, (More Info)
- TOR, common name Mahseer a genera in the family Cyprinidae (carp those darn pesky fish)
- Tor, research station is a Norweigian Antarctic research station in Queen Maud LAnd, in the easternmost part of Princess Martha Coast at Svarthamaren, establish in 1993... (Wikipedia Article)
- Acronym for "Terms Of Reference"
before I go much further I'll get past a few technical terms so that those who are less technically inclined can keep up.
At A glance, Onion routing is
Onion routing is effectively the the anonymous network version of pass the parcel where you have instructions or a task at each stop...Whats so great about this way of doing things? in a short description it means that you can send a packet from point A to point B, but to avoid an eavesdropper or someone following the packet (assuming they don't have access to the whole network) it routes the packet via point C, Q, F, J, Z, N and P, before getting to point B.
However I digress, effectively onion routing is a technique wereby a message or "packet" is repeatly encrypted with layer after layer (think wrapping up the prize in pass the parcel), the message is then sent through multiple network "nodes".A node is a computer that is attached to a network, sometimes called a host - coming from the original meaning of the word "node" which is the place on a stem where the leaves are attached.These nodes are called "Onion Routers", the analogy comes by way of each router removes one layer of encryption to uncover routing instructions , based on the instructions it then sends the packet to the next router, which agains removes one layer, repeating the process over and over until reaching the final "exit node" which sends the packet on to its intended reciepient.
-Routing = Assigning a path for message or file delivery
The whole idea behind the concept of onion routing is to protect the privacy of both the sender and the recipient of a message - while at the same time providing protection for the message content as it is transmitted.
This feat is accomplished, according to the principal of Chaum's mix cascades, via a number of proxies which can then re-route messages in an unpredictable path.
The biggest advantage of onion routing and mix cascades? its not necessary to trust each cooperating router, even if one or more routers are compromised, communication can still be anonymous because each router accepts messages, re-encrypts them, and transmits to another router. only an attacker with the ability to monitor every onion router in a network would have the ability to trace the path of a message through the network.
without that any attacker would have difficulty even if they contral one or more routers on the messages path.
Downsides:
There are several technical, social and otherwise bad downsides to TOR,
technical:
- DNS leaks: unless you route your dns requests via TOR as well as actual data, you could be compromised via unencrypted dns requests. - this has far reaching consequences, but too detailed to go into here.
- Eaves dropping by exit nodes, any exit node is in the position to capture trafic passing through that doesn't use end to end encryption.
Social:
- Due to the inherent anonymity, TOR has unfortunately been used for illegal purposes, such as child pornography and other illegal uses, this has lead to situations in the past where authorities have seized tor nodes due to this usage.
Applications:
There are a wide variety of applications available that make use of TOR.
Web browsers with Tor
- OperaTor
- xB Browser - A firefox derivative with integrated tor.
Theres plenty more both im/browser bundles, and full operating system sandboxes, and various tools. easy to find via google.
Aspire SA90: complete with Intel Celeron 925 Dual Core CPU
Aspire SA90: complete with Intel Celeron 925 Dual Core CPU
The Aspire SA90 is not exactly the fastest and best looking computer on the market; however it is a cheap solution to computing. This is the perfect PC for your children for doing their homework on, as it is perfect for browsing the net and checking emails. The Aspire SA90 is a safe PC as [...] 
The Aspire SA90 is not exactly the fastest and best looking computer on the market; however it is a cheap solution to computing. This is the perfect PC for your children for doing their homework on, as it is perfect for browsing the net and checking emails. The Aspire SA90 is a safe PC as [...]
The Aspire SA90 is not exactly the fastest and best looking computer on the market; however it is a cheap solution to computing. This is the perfect PC for your children for doing their homework on, as it is perfect for browsing the net and checking emails. The Aspire SA90 is a safe PC as well, as it uses the new Windows Vista operating system. This means that you know that you can leave your children on the PC safe in the knowledge that nothing will happen.
The Aspire SA90 has the Intel Celeron 925 Dual Core and has 512MB RAM and a not so bad 160GB Hard Drive. There is also a DVD Re-Writer, do not get to exited on the GPU as it is only a SIS® Mirage TM 3.
Features Include:
• Intel Celeron 925 Dual Core Processor
• 512MB RAM
• 160GB Hard Drive
• DVD RW
• SIS Mirage 3 Graphics Card
• 9 in 1 Card Reader
• Vista Home Basic OP
Source - SIS
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