Posts by Framitz

PC version

I only remember ever seeing the PC version. It was OK at the time.

No to Sophos

I'll stick with Zoner AV until I see something better, it has all the features I want, including call and text blocking which is very useful.

No problem

I'm fine with anything that breaks Twitter or Facebook.

What???

This was no need at all for any apology, it was entertainment and totally appropriate.

Works for me

Google maps and navigation is more accurate than my Garmin GPS when it comes to directions.

Never any issue with errors in SoCal. The Garmin sometimes runs me around inefficiently while Navigation on Android takes the most efficient route every time.

I could care less what Apple does or does not do.

New? What?

Nothing at all new here.

Most of us saw or did this in grade school and out grew it long ago.

Folks behind the survey must have been raised in a closet or something, causing them to have the intelligence of a fungus.

True story dealing with RF radiation

Off topic, but maybe interesting.

This is a much higher energy than any cell phone or laptop, but it's somewhat humorous.

While working in Turkey at a NATO 50 KW HF radio transmitter site. The land was leased from a local farmer and sheep herder.

The farmer found that in winter his sheep would cluster under the transmitter antennas. He noticed that he felt nice and warm in the area around and under the antennas.

So, he built a house under one of the antennas. One of the guy wires actually went in a window and out the back door.

Then he noticed that there were very few lambs born the next spring . . .

I guess someone told him it was the radiation that sterilized the sheep, he sued NATO for damages and won. NATO payed to replace his entire flock of sheep and then built fencing around the antennas to keep the sheep safe.

The funny thing, or not so funny, is the farmer continued to live in the house, constantly bombarded by HF radiation (The signals were ship to shore teletype with many channels so it never stopped).

I sometimes wonder what effects he and his family must have suffered. I'm betting he never had any grandchildren. I still have a photograph of the house somewhere.

Makes me go "Hmmm"

I wonder if this guy was working in Budapest a few years ago.

I worked a security incident at an RMA center in Budapest for my company. Product was being detected as infected in final inspection.

We traced the source to a thumb drive used by a guy with a very similar, if not the same name.

We spend a few thousand investigating and international calling and fired the person once we were sure it was him. Not a single problem from that facility since.

I wonder

I wonder what WD thinks of their drive being displayed as art?

Smart? Meter

My meter was replaced about 2 weeks a go. I've had a lot of wireless issues and didn't realize the meter may be involved.

I switched to the 5Ghz channel on the router and my wireless is rock solid and fast again.

About done

Lookout has turned to crap recently. I'll likely uninstall it when I get home today.

Shades of Strategic Air Command

When I worked with SAC communications we had redundancy upon redundancy upon redundancy.

This reminds me of that; We had two sets of land lines connecting all sites. NO line went the same route or through the same equipment. On several occasions we found telcos routing the redundant lines through the same switch and had to demand a change for security reasons. This made for a very robust system and it was only the first tier of at least three... Shouldn't detail the others.

The point is that if enough money was spent to build an independent network it would be so complex that security would still be a huge issue due to the complexity.

So FAIL.

It's not just computers

We have other technology today that can contain sensitive information.

For example last week I replaced my home phone system, replacing a base station and 4 hand sets. My wife was going to recycle the old equipment.

First we went to the garage and I destroyed the old equipment with a chipping hammer.

This may seem trivial, but those phones contained sensitive call records. The destruction was was fun and the data is destroyed.

Maybe not the power, but

Seems this might be more useful as a form of feedback to further improve electromechanical precision in hard disk drives.