The "website" is down: moronic sales guy vs. tech support

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Tablet PC as a hammer

It does seem to be a selling point. No embed code, so link will take you to a video.

Kevin Mitnick on social engineering for hacking

Did five years:

Dubbed the "most dangerous hacker in the world," Mitnick was put in solitary confinement and prevented from using a phone after law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he had the ability to start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone, he said.
Mitnick didn't do any whistling on Saturday, but in his keynote following the panel he talked about how he listened in on FBI phone calls during the three years he evaded the FBI, left them doughnuts when he narrowly escaped raids and was chased down by a helicopter. He also demonstrated how to be able to see the phone numbers of callers on caller ID even when they have their number set to be blocked.

Suissa computers

Check out the gallery.

Seadragon (scaling way down or up through many images) and Photosynth (synthesizing disparate photos of given image)

How to get and keep Windows XP after June 30, 2008

... you'll be able to buy XP on certain mainstream PCs at least until January 31, 2009, and possibly beyond. The cutoff date is even later for some ultra-low cost notebooks, as well as low-cost desktop PCs commonly called nettops, such as those made by Asus, Dell, and other manufacturers: They'll sell with XP until June 2010. As for technical support, that has a lot of life left as well--officially, Microsoft will provide at least some forms of support until 2014.

AMD announces external graphics solution for notebooks

ATI XGP is an exclusive technology that capitalizes on PCIe 2.0 to deliver enthusiast-class graphics via a connected cable to an externally powered and cooled device. This unique innovation delivers up to 4.0 Gbyte/s in each direction in bandwidth communication between the notebook and external graphics, whereas previous consumer level external solutions were limited in graphics bandwidth.

Tech myths debunked

You always need to 'stop' a USB device before unplugging it: This is another of those statements that's valid only under certain conditions. The idea behind saying this is to ensure that the USB device is not unplugged while data is being read from or written to it. Doing so would corrupt the file being transferred. But, if the device is idle, there is no need to go through the 'Safely Remove Hardware' drill. Note that in Windows Vista however, if you have set a USB flash drive to act as a Ready Boost device, you will need to 'stop' the device before unplugging it. For other devices such as keyboard/mouse, printers / scanners, etc., you can just unplug them provided they are not currently in use.

Shut down Windows in an instant

Involves getting into the registry, if that doesn't unnerve you.

Windows Hidie -- quickly hide any window on your desktop

It won't show in the taskbar nor as an Alt-Tab selection.

Long distance WiFi for rural areas

Intel has announced plans to sell a specialized Wi-Fi platform later this year that can send data from a city to outlying rural areas tens of miles away, connecting sparsely populated villages to the Internet. The wireless technology, called the rural connectivity platform (RCP), will be helpful to computer-equipped students in poor countries, says Jeff Galinovsky, a senior platform manager at Intel. And the data rates are high enough--up to about 6.5 megabits per second--that the connection could be used for video conferencing and telemedicine, he says.
... [RCP] rewrites the communication rules of Wi-Fi radios... the software creates specific time slots in which each of the two radios listens and talks, so there's no extra data being sent confirming transmissions. "We're not taking up all the bandwidth waiting for acknowledgments," he says.

Most links will be less than 30 miles away from each other. Less expensive than the proposed WiMAX blanket for now, I suppose?

2.5" and 3.5" SATA stage rack

No need for the hard drive to go into the case. Just plug it into this.

MSConfig Cleanup -- remove diabled items

You know, for startup optimization.

One Wilshire -- where 260 ISPs meet

"In the bowels of the world's most densely populated Meet-Me room -- a room where over 260 ISPs connect their networks to each other -- a phalanx of cabling spills out of its containers and silently pumps the world's information to your computer screen."

Killdeadpixel -- fix stuck pixels on your monitor

There are links for actual dead pixel fixes.

Master task manager and reclaim some damn memory

More detail than I was prepared for.

Computer simulation model of rat neurocortical column successfully accomplished

Acts all biological-like.

oDesk -- outsourcing site to connect to programmers, Web designeres, etc.

Global talent pool.

2007 Digital Economy factbook in pdf

In-depth, statistic-heavy, well-cited, and freely-available online.

Make security camera for the the home

Pretty involved to save a lot of money. Images to an SD card from what I can tell.