Today I stumbled on 3 things that I found interested on the intertubz. Superspeed USB 3.0 and it’s drastic improvements on USB 2.0, an updated to Firefox that is similar toa feature already available on Google’s Chrome and a nifty website that lets you store and link to pictures of almost all formats.
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I watched one of the most amazing videos I’ve seen in a while - It’s of a “multitouch-like hand gesture interface” that uses only a standard webcam. I could describe it for you, but really, you need to see it for yourself . I can only imagine how this will affect even just the design aspect of computing, among many others. Amazing, even for being in early development.
Watch the video here!
Stick around after the jump to hear about a new Nvidia Quadro graphics card with 4gigs of ram and how vmware is wanting to bring virtualization to your cell phone.
Pretend you’ve got 5 identical windows 2003 servers (or any server for that matter - cent os, windows 2003, 2008, and mac os even!) to setup in one work shift. Why break your back trying to install them one at a time on top of doing all the updates? You can just do one base install and ‘ghost’ the drive. “That’s expensive”, you might proclaim! Not so - in fact, I’ll let you in on a little secret - Gparted. Why spend $700 on cloning software when you can just do the same job for free? Yeah, free! Free as the air you’re breathing right now (unless you’re in space, reading from the ocean, or maybe reading from Mt. Everest).
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released today and their site has been completely bogged down with users trying to get the free office software suite. OpenOffice is a open-source competitor to Microsoft Office which has a retail value of 149.99 for the low end home and student version and goes up from there for more features. Some of the newly added features to OpenOffice 3.0 are support for business analytics and the ability to import PDF (portable document format) files. OpenOffice.org has set up a temporary page for users until the site’s issues with the overflow of traffic has been resolved.
Toshiba has created what I think is probably the coolest Hard Drive to date. This thing is super tiny and holds 250 GB. It’s been designed for the next generation of ultra thin laptops and with measurements being 1.8 inches by 8 millimeters, I think they are well on their way.
I’ve already shared with you how to make a Ultimate boot disc for Windows and in the main menu for Ultimate boot disc there is a password reset tool. Windows Vista also gives you a chance make a password reset utility that you can place on a disc or flash drive.
Open up User Accounts from the Control Panel then select the link for “Create a password reset disk” which is on the upper left hand side. The Password Wizard that pops up gives you basic information about how the password reset tool works, just click next. Then choose the drive where you want to create the password key on. You’ll be asked for your current password (hope you haven’t already forgotten it). And that’s all you have to do, just don’t forget where you placed your password reset disc ;P
At one time or another we’ve probably all had problems with Windows. Lets face it, being the most popular consumer Operating System it’s the primary target for spy ware and viruses. Sure you can use the Windows CD to run some repairs, or the Ubuntu boot disc that I previously showed you how to make to back up your data but there is a much better option to use. The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows.
Ever been doing something on the internet and seen one of those boxes with the crazy letters that you have to type in the letters before it’ll let you finish you’re post or comment on you’re friends Myspace page? It’s called a CAPTCHA which is an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart. They’re also known as a type of Human Interaction Proof (HIP). You’ve probably seen CAPTCHA test on lots of Web sites and you have to type them in correctly in order to complete the form.
The reason behind CAPTCHA is quite simply to stop people from exploiting a weakness in the computers running the site. While these people make up a minority of all the people on the internet, their actions can affect millions of users. For example, a free email service might find itself over run with account requests from an automated program which could be part of a larger attempt to send out spam mail to millions of people. CAPTCHA tests help prevent this from happening.
When windows performs it’s updates, often but not always some of the hot fixes leave backup files so that you can later uninstall those hot fixes should they themselves be a problem. Normally these backup files present no issue and can simply be ignored. On the occasions where this is not the case and you need or simply want that space back, there is a free tool to help.
NetworkWorld has a slide-show of 15 new technologies from DEMOfall 08. Showcased are everything from services dedicated to finding ’spin’ in news stories, to new money management, to finding musicians for project collaboration, to RFID tags for home use, to streaming media from your house to your cellphone! Don’t worry, IT gang, there’s new ways to spy on you, new ways to monitor servers/tickets/inventory (like we need anymore of that - there’s enough open-source options to fill a colo), to a PCIe card that uses flash memory for a SAN. It’s worth the few minutes to check out. The one thing that’s strangely absent from the list is a new product to take a slide-show and put it into a normal html based page.
