A Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) is also known as a Palm or a Pocket PC. Today, though, there are many more brands and choices than the original Palm. I’m forced to purchase one to fulfill an equipment requirement for my wife, who is headed to nursing school. The number of units out there is pretty […]
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Buying a PDA - the first “how to”
Published by April 20th, 2007 in Computers, Hardware, Windows, Linux and Palm. 0 CommentsRFID security
Published by April 2nd, 2007 in Computers, Hardware, Evil and Communication. 0 CommentsLast week I mentioned the relation between anti-static bags and EZ-passes. I very briefly mentioned the blocking of transmissions and its relation to RFID security. In this post I’ll go a little more in-depth. RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification System. It’s a widely used technology that is being used in toll readers, corporate ID […]
How many cores are in a Core and Core 2?
Published by February 22nd, 2007 in Computers, Hardware and Question. 3 CommentsQ: I’m very confused about dual core processors. There’s dual core and Core 2 duo and Core, etc. How can I make sense of all of this? What is a core?
The Core line of CPUs is either one of the greatest blunders or greatest anti-competition smokescreens it’s ever mustered. I don’t believe that I can […]
How do I learn to use the Unix command line?
Published by February 6th, 2007 in Computers, Linux, Question and Software. 0 CommentsQ: At my new job, I can only use Unix. I have never used it before and have no idea what any commands are! Where do I start?
As sadistic as this may sound, I LOVE that people are getting forced into learning Unix. Diversity is a good thing and learning about other operating systems beyond […]
PC Purchase Series: What is an IEEE card?
Published by January 29th, 2007 in Computers, Hardware and Series:PC Purchase. 0 CommentsIEEE is an international organization made up of engineers that sets standards for the computing industry. For example, wifi is IEEE Standard 802.11. When referring to an ‘IEEE card’ in a computer, it’s actually an IEEE 1394 card, which is otherwise known as ‘Firewire’. It’s similar to USB. Since USB 2.0 was released a few […]
