Scientists have discovered that Plasmons can be used to make very small items invisible. From the article: The proposal involves using plasmons — tiny electronic excitations on the surfaces of some metals — to cancel out the visible light or… Read More »Invisibility?
I found this device interesting, as I just bought an external dual-layer DVD burner for about $100 less than this and a standalone DVD recorder for about $300… so if I had picked this up instead, I would have saved… Read More »Sony DVD Direct burns DVDs without a computer
Here is an interesting idea on logging student (or user) computer useage from the login script. It’s one of those ideas that’s so simple you wonder why you didn’t think of it.
Frank Hayes has a great article in this week’s ComputerWorld on how the Paris Hilton hack should get IT thinking about the use of state-of-ther art cell phones. Once again, do you really want your sensitive information out of your… Read More »Paris Hilton & You
Wired reports that the method Nicolas Jacobsen used to gain access to T-Mobile accounts was through a known hole in their WebLogic server – for which BEA had a patch available. This however didn’t make Jacobsen a ‘script kiddie’ –… Read More »T-Mobile Hack Used Known Hole
Firefox has released version 1.0.1, which fixes the IDN spoofing issue, as well as about a dozen other security issues, and added some performance enhancements. Right now it’s a manual install, and sounds fairly tricky. You may want to stick… Read More »Firefox IDN update
It caught my eye that there were two different articles about major IT companies aiming to bring girls into IT this week. eSchool News reports on Cisco’s efforts to make IT, and in particular, their Tech Academy more appealing to… Read More »Microsoft and Cisco aiming to bring more girls to IT
There must be something in the water cooler over at Information Week, because I think this week’s Secret CIO column is right on the money, and I usually disagree with him, or skip the column because it’s just whining about… Read More »Password Complexity
Bob Evans from Information Week has the most sane reporing I’ve read to date on RFID. I’m not sure why most reporters feel the need to create a stir about this technology, but it’s nice to hear a voice of… Read More »Rational RFID reporting
A couple of posts ago, I talked about mounting .iso files as virtual CDs, but what if you want to burn that file to a CD in order to give it to a friend? (only legal software like Linux distros,… Read More »‘easy bake’ .ISO’s to CDLinux and Windows