Museum of Talking Boards: History of the Talking Boardhttps://www.museumoftalkingboards.com/history.html
and European toy companies actively peddled the planchette, making it immensely popular. The dial plate devices, although more sophisticated, were largely ignored. This was most l
Peter Gutmann's Home Pagehttps://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/
two, banks, credit card companies, and phone vendors have been quietly, or occasionally loudly, pushing out contactless payment systems for credit cards and phones. The banks and
Letter to ARRL - Restructing of Ham Radio Licensinghttps://www.wm7d.net/az_proj/az_html/arrl_restructuring.html
in NC, the power companies are installing BPL (broadband over power lines). On NPR (National Public Radio) the other day, I heard a NC representative of the ARRL saying that BPL w
The Finnish Internet exchange point will be located in Telia Helsinki Data Center in the future - Ficix ry is building a new hub in Pihttps://ficix.fi/news/new-ficix-hub-hdc
Center. This enables companies and public administrations a very cost-effective and safe way to connect directly to the core of the Finnish Internet”, says Kaisa Pajari , Head of
FICIX is the biggest IXP at Finland. Organised as an association it is membership based, not-for-profit, equal and neutral peering point.
Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientistshttp://philip.greenspun.com/careers/
in industries or companies dont have PhD. Therefore, SOME of them have inferiority complex if their employees are smarter than them. -- John Smith , August 8, 2002 I think this we
Are We Living in a New Age?http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/articles/misc/barker_new_age.html
40 Similarly, many companies in the 1970s and 1980s participated in the est (later the Forum) workshops of Werner Erhard, whose platform was the pantheistic belief that “whe
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The CIA and The Mediahttps://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_cia13.htm
the resources of their companies to the struggle against "global Communism." Accordingly, the traditional line separating the American press corps and government was oft
Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future [LWN.net]https://lwn.net/Articles/500231/
also spur free software companies to develop and freely distribute a UEFI implementation that makes managing these issues ( plus UEFI bugs ) easy. Hardware vendors love free, just
The UEFI secure boot mechanism has been the source of a great deal of concern in the free softw [...]
Reaction to the DEC Spam of 1978https://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html
There are many companies in the U.S. and abroad that would like to have access to the Arpanet. Naturally all of them cannot have this access. Consequently if the ones that do have
Sam's Laser FAQ - Vacuum Technology for Home-Built Gas Lasershttp://www.repairfaq.org/sam/lasercva.htm
refrigeration service companies. No, motor oil or 3-In-One won't do! Refrigeration service pump oil isn't what you want for a true high vacuum but is good as a flush and is certai
Michael Covington's Daily Notebookhttps://www.covingtoninnovations.com/michael/blog/0810/
banks and credit-card companies and, closer to home, Atlanta's freeways seem to have no speed limits. But we do not live under anarchy. We can't stop spammers, but we can certainl
This is Michael Covington's blog. Topics include computers, electronics, amateur astronomy, astrophotography, current events, and philosophical issues.
An introduction to Clear Containers [LWN.net]https://lwn.net/Articles/644675/
projects and startup companies. We (the Intel Clear Containers group) are taking a little bit of a different tack on the security of containers by going back to the basic question
Guest author Arjan van de Ven writes: 'Containers are hot. Everyone loves them. Developers love [...]
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