Tag Archives: computers

laptop battery

2007.03.01 – 6:20 pm PST

I haven’t posted any statistics about my laptop battery in quite some time.
Noticeably I haven’t lost any more capacity since November.

$ battery.sh
Thu Mar 1 18:13:06 MST 2007
alarm: unsupported
present: [...]

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laptop battery weirdness

2006.11.05 – 5:47 pm PST

while updating my system today, I decided to let my laptop use some of the battery because it’s been plugged in all week. now something interesting happened after trying to plug the system back into the wall. the battery says it’s charged.

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new battery update

2006.07.08 – 5:10 am PDT

I haven’t really been using the new battery that much, I kept it around a 40% discharge, then I charge it up or let it sit, and use my older battery, and leave it plugged in to the wall. Since doing the initial charge cycles, the battery doesn’t appear to have lost any more [...]

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trainGeek

2005.08.28 – 5:21 pm PDT

ooh, i want one!
http://www.raildriver.com/rdcontrols/desktop.php

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* Secret Documents About Indymedia Server Disappearance Unsealed

2005.08.05 – 4:27 pm PDT

Government Order Demanded Only Logs; Web Host Rackspace
Handed Over Server

San Antonio, TX - EFF last week won a motion allowing it to
access sealed court documents about the mysterious
disappearance of two web servers used to host news websites
for Indymedia, a global collective of Independent Media
Centers (IMCs) and thousands of journalists. After six
months of secret litigation, [...]

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Insanity! Who Elected this Schmuck????

2005.01.20 – 5:44 pm PST

From the EFF, and BoingBoing.
California INDUCE bill bans the Internet
By Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow: An extremist California Senator called Kevin Murray has introduced a Californian version of last year’s Federal INDUCE Act, a law that proposed to make the very Internet itself illegal, for it bans producing, selling, offering, descirbing or building a network that [...]

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An Elder Challenges Outsourcing’s Orthodoxy

2004.09.09 – 1:30 pm PDT

…
Sure, Mr. Samuelson writes, the mainstream economists acknowledge that some people will gain and others will suffer in the short term, but they quickly add that “the gains of the American winners are big enough to more than compensate for the losers.”
That assumption, so widely shared by economists, is “only an innuendo,” Mr. Samuelson writes. [...]

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California man charged in government hacking

2004.07.19 – 2:40 pm PDT

Smart kids? HEHEH.
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A 20-year-old California man has been charged with hacking government computers, including two agencies within the Defense Department, and defacing government Web sites, the U.S. attorney’s office said Friday.

Robert Lyttle, of Pleasant Hill, Calif., was indicted on Thursday by a federal grand jury for allegedly hacking government computers in April 2002, [...]

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toxic computer dust

2004.06.03 – 3:16 pm PDT

http://news.com.com/Is+the+dust+on+your+computer+toxic%3F/2100-1041-5225799.html?part=dht&tag=ntop

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MS vs. SQL Slammer “Egg on your face”

2003.01.30 – 8:31 pm PST

After reading this article, I remembered back a year ago when MS said they were going to make computers more “trustworthy.” Well, they haven’t, and it doesn’t look like its going to be anytime soon. Even MS got hit with the SQL Slammer worm on their internal networks.

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Bad Behavior has blocked 2061 access attempts in the last 7 days.

>>>>>>> .r246