While reading an article about building a BlueTooth Sniper Rifle I came across something called a “Gumstix” (GS) computer. I found this fascinating. It is a computer, but a tiny one, a really tiny computer (80mm x 20mm x 6.3mm). The GS computer runs embedded Linux (2.6 kernel). You can add features to the the […]

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I just created a Google Alert for my website. Every week Google will email me a list of links to my site which were recently added to Google’s site index. Google has spiders constantly “crawling” the Internet looking for new content, when they visit my site and record my posts, I will be notified. Here […]

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After trying to transfer some files off of a defective hard drive, I was left with many partial files. When I went to delete the files I was greeted by a Windows error message, “Access Denied”. I tried to delete the folder containing the damaged files and Windows informed me that I could not delete […]

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I was hired to fix a problem with a Windows 98 computer which would not boot. When I arrived the first thing that struck me was that the computers were Dell Precision workstations designed for Windows XP. Yet, they were running 98. I have often seen people try to run Windows XP on a computer […]

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Recently in my IDS 380 class I had a professor instruct students to use Telnet to connect to our school’s server (ROHAN). I am always in favor of securing my computing as much as possible, so I have not used Telnet for years. My buddy Mike recently configured a network traffic monitoring program to see […]

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