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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Aug 22, 2011 22:59:33 GMT -5
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Aug 24, 2011 19:24:17 GMT -5
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Aug 31, 2011 13:42:51 GMT -5
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Sept 4, 2011 1:47:44 GMT -5
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Sept 7, 2011 0:19:13 GMT -5
Education on the Electronic Oscilloscope Fundamentals QC
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Sept 12, 2011 19:47:39 GMT -5
I was talking to a 67-year old relative about Quaalude at a recent family event. (Does this sort of thing happen to you all the time too, or is it just me?) I know her to be a friendly skeptic but..... ;D QC pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/tag/quaalude/Attachments:
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Sept 16, 2011 14:11:52 GMT -5
2010 Metal Detector Finds QC
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Sept 19, 2011 11:05:06 GMT -5
High Speed USB 3.0 4-Port HUB Do the Upgrade ! I see no reason to NOT upgrade now , think of the phone call you get as your dumping files to your Thumb Drive , you can get out of the house faster if the data is moving faster , some of the usb .2x are already set to go just as fast when plugged into a .3x it's the metal & chip flash gate . You could wait like 6 months , I only have 5 computers with .3x usb & 2 of those only offer 1 .3x slot , I like a mix of old and new computers , the speed of the usb device to transfer my data is Important to me , so why not pick your fastest computer and or basically Motherboard that has the port and Do The Upgrade QC - USB 3.0 4-Ports HUB - Plug & Play - HDD interface: SATA - Compatible with USB flash disk/card reader/USB mouse/USB keyboard/SATA HDD etc. - Supports Windows SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7 - Accessories: - 1 x USB 3.0 cable - 1 x Screwdrivers - 10 x Screws High Speed USB 3.0 4-Port HUB Dimensions: 5.71 in x 3.94 in x 0.98 in (14.5 cm x 10.0 cm x 2.5 cm) Weight: 9.88 oz (280 g) www.dealextreme.com/p/high-speed-usb-3-0-4-port-hub-91528
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Oct 7, 2011 21:17:33 GMT -5
Crooks robbed and stabbed 37-year-old Mr Li when he was working as a taxi driver. The knife they used had snapped at the handle and the blade was left embedded – and hidden – between his skull and ear. Mr Li had no idea that it was there but had complained about splitting headaches for years before visiting specialist medics at the Yuxi People’s Hospital in Yunnan province, south west China. A spokesman for the hospital said: ‘He came to us with a long history of severe head pain and unexplained bleeding from his ears and mouth. As soon as we scanned him it was obvious what was wrong. ‘What is astonishing is that is was missed four years ago and that he has survived all this time with it in his head. We've seen needles and small objects buried in a skull but never something this size.’ Luo Zhiwei, head of the surgical department at the hospital, had a stab at summing it all up and said that the fact that Mr Li survived and lived a relatively normal life for all this time with the knife buried in his head was a medical miracle QC www.metro.co.uk/weird/855703-man-had-knife-buried-in-face-for-four-years-x-ray-pictureAttachments:
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Oct 10, 2011 17:09:23 GMT -5
Here are some quotes from his article: "IPT treatment consists of giving doses of insulin to a fasting patient sufficient to lower blood sugar into the 50 mg/dl. Then they inject lower doses of toxic chemo drugs [when the cancer cell] receptors are more sensitive and take on medications more rapidly and in higher amounts. The bicarbonate/maple syrup treatment works in reverse to IPT. Dr. Tullio Simoncini acknowledges that cancer cells gobble up sugar so when you encourage the intake of sugar it's like sending in a Trojan horse. The sugar is not going to encourage the growth of the cancer colonies because the baking soda is going to kill the cells before they have a chance to grow. The treatment is a combination of pure, 100% maple syrup [bulk Grade B from the health food store] and baking soda and was first reported on the Cancer Tutor site. When mixed and heated together, the maple syrup and baking soda bind together. The maple syrup targets cancer cells , which consume 15 times more glucose than normal cells) and the baking soda, which is dragged into the cancer cell by the maple syrup, being very alkaline forces a rapid shift in pH killing the cell. The actual formula is to mix one part baking soda with three parts (pure, 100%) maple syrup in a small saucepan. Stir briskly and heat the mixture for 5 minutes. Take one teaspoon daily is what is suggested by Cancer Tutor but one could probably do this several times a day QC www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=14557&pst=1160842
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Oct 23, 2011 17:57:45 GMT -5
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Nov 22, 2011 16:31:20 GMT -5
it's Free , Better than Linux , Runs on older Hardware Yes I Love it , Oracle Solaris 11 Rocks ! QC
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Dec 10, 2011 11:16:31 GMT -5
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Dec 17, 2011 12:43:57 GMT -5
Hey this sounds Important ! QC
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Jan 27, 2012 4:15:13 GMT -5
QC R.I.P
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Feb 1, 2012 22:38:20 GMT -5
R.I.P Don Cornelius QC
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Mar 23, 2012 22:10:22 GMT -5
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Apr 5, 2012 10:34:10 GMT -5
In the past couple of months I've visited two of the world's leading computer history museums, and they provide a remarkable contrast. Mainly it's to do with money. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, is housed in a magnificent, award-winning modern building, with a 370-seat auditorium and rooms for classes and corporate events. The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, is housed in dilapidated huts left over from the second world war. The Computer History Museum has a fairly substantial staff that includes a "vice president of capital campaign and principal giving" and a "senior director of corporate business development". Its fundraising efforts try to exploit its proximity to local tech companies such as Google and Cisco, and local universities such as Stanford and the University of California's campus at Berkeley. TNMOC is run by volunteers, and there are no local computer giants. While Bletchley Park is close to the Open University HQ, OU's students are rarely on campus. In terms of things to see, however, the two are closer than you might think, especially considering that The Computer History Museum first opened in Boston in 1984. Its exhibits range from pre-computer punched card systems through a Cray supercomputer to racks of small micros, including relatively rare machines such as the MindSet. Yes, it also has a working Babbage engine built by the Science Museum in London, but it won't be there forever. It was paid for by Nathan Myhrvold, formerly of Microsoft, who plans to take it home. TNMOC has a working Colossus rebuilt by Tony Sale and others, and it expects to have what may be the world's oldest original computer that still works: the Harwell/Witch (Ding dong, this Witch ain't dead, 10 September 10). It also has an air traffic control room and a new microcomputer gallery, which is excellent. You can actually use some of TNMOC's old micros, which you can't in California. A rational government would look at TNMOC's impressive progress in only four years and chuck it a few quid. Sadly, we don't have a rational government. It seems that the history of computing is the preserve of the Science Museum, which, while it has many great merits, isn't doing the job at the moment. Of course, TNMOC is just one of the organisations based at Bletchley Park, a short walk from Bletchley station. It is also home to a reconstructed code-breaking Bombe, a Home Front exhibition, a Churchill Collection, and a model railway, among other things. It could be developed to offer much more. But Bletchley Park needs £10m for repairs. This led almost 22,000 people to sign the Save Bletchley petition, but the polite government reply to that more or less decodes to "get stuffed". Downing Street says English Heritage gave Bletchley £330,000 for roof repairs, and Milton Keynes council will provide "a further £600,000 for critical restoration work". Dr Sue Black, from the University of Westminster, the petition's independent organiser, might have done much better financially if she had just persuaded a couple of MPs to make Bletchley their second home. There's really no arguing with the fact that computing has been dominated by the US, and that the giant American computer corporations can afford to subsidise the preservation of their heritage. But important pioneering work on cryptography, code-breaking and computing was done at Bletchley Park, in the UK, and it arguably changed the course of history. It certainly shortened the war, and saved many thousands of lives. If that's not worth preserving, what is? At this point, there is still time to rescue our digital heritage, while some of the men and women who created it are still alive, and many electronics components are still available. Ignore it for another five or 10 years, and it may well be too late QC www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/16/bletchley-park-computer-museum
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Apr 24, 2012 21:16:29 GMT -5
When you type in Forbes.com (and not a string of hard to remember numbers) you can thank Paul Mockapetris, one of the creators of Domain Name System (DNS). DNS is fundamental to the Internet, instantly translating the common name to the machine address without the user being aware. Now, after 40 years, DNS is about to get security. What took so long? When DNS was first rolled out back in 1986, security wasn’t a driving force, according to Mockapetris. “The Wright Brothers didn’t have a drink cart or bathroom in their first plane,” he said. In other words, Mockapetris and others had to triage DNS implementation and always knew security would come long later—they didn’t necessarily know how much later. The modern Internet inherited limitations from its precursor, ARPANet, so the original DNS architecture had to be designed around such things as the size of the packets sent across the network. “What we wanted to do was make sure that servers could function even if we were using the minimum size packet,” he said. To handle this, he said, thirteen root servers were established, each containing the master list of address translations (more or less a master phone book). Hundreds of additional servers, each with copies of the master list, further distributed the load as more and users needed address translations. The thirteen are like brands, he said, with one run by ICANN, another run by Verisign, and so forth. In defense of this tree-like architecture and its implementation, Mockapetris cited a surfboard analogy, saying they not only wanted to produce a surfboard that could handle the waves on the Internet of 1983 but also the 50-foot waves today. But back then they first needed to prove that the directory structure was flexible yet strong enough because critics said it was much to complicated. “[DNS] was barely accepted by the community at the time,” he said. In the 1990s, concerns around DNS security were the subject of internal policy debate. Recently attackers began to poison the DNS cache, changing registrations, sometimes leading to denial of service attacks. “If I were running my own company,” he said, “I’d get my own copy of the root server,” which he said was relatively small amount of data. He said attackers might someday take down a root server, but what they can do now is congest the pathway between you and it. So why not have your own? “One idea going forward,” he said, “is that the root server might go away,” and everyone would have their own local copy. Today Mockapetris is chairman and chief scientist at Nominum, a company that provides DNS security features to ISPs and Enterprises, and looks forward to Domain Name System Security Extension (DNSSEC), which uses public key infrastructure to provide an authentication trail. “[DNSSEC] is the next step in this triage and it will enable some important things and solve a few important problems,” he said. On July 15, 2010 the first changes toward implementing DNSSEC were made at the root level and are now trickling down through the thirteen root servers. For example, VeriSign, plans to have all of its .com and .net domains authenticated by next Thursday, March 31, 2011. It’s important to note that DNSSEC does not encrypt data, nor does it directly stop denial of service attacks. It does, however, create a layer of trust as addresses resolved by a cached server can be instantly compared with the original data on the master server. Looking ahead, Mockapetris outlined a few DNSSEC use cases. Companies might, for example, publish the serial numbers of RFID tags if they knew that it would secure. “If I have an authenticated DNS, I can think about putting that database out there,” he said. For example, a trucking company might allow firefighters to know the contents of a burning truck involved in an accident through RFID look up. Additionally, patients receiving medication in a hospital can be assured the nurse has matched the RFID of the drug with their patient record, potentially eliminating one source of medication mix-up. This blog originally appeared on Forbes.com QC robertvamosi.com/
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