:: Intrepid Spaniel ::

Dell has joined the MiniPC/EEEpc work alike fray with the Inpsiron Mini 9. Yay!

Atom 1.6ghz.. 512mb or 1gb memory, choice of 4/8/16gb flash drive, 9inch screen at 1024×600, windows xp home or the mysterious miniOS built on ubuntu 8.04. There are options for bluetooth and a 0.3 or 1.3 megapixel webcam.
It also has 3 usb ports and a 4 in 1 card reader.

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9

Here’s a review that likse the MSI Wind for it’s 10 inch screen better the 9″ Dell Mini and expanded storage options for regular hard drives. The MSI Wind and HP Onenote also have a slighly larger keyboard 88% vs. 92% for the Mini. Myself, I’d prefer a solid state drive but would recommend spending the extra money for the 16gb upgrade.

SNL McCain Weekend update

hehe..

This is a fun event. I attended last year and learned a lot and had a good time. Highly recommended. Here’s the announcement.
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South East Idaho’s 2nd Annual hands on computer security event will be here April 12 at the Newberry building. Registration begins at 14:00 and the games start at 16:00 and run to roughly 1 or 2am. The cost of entry is $10 or $5 with two cans of food.

This year the challenges include:

* Programming challenges
* Reverse Engineering Challenges
* Capture the Flag (or a variant of ctf at least)
* Web Challenges
* Video Game Challenges
* And more…

All skill levels are welcome. The emphasis of this event is on teaching and learning (although winning is fun too). If you are a beginner, there are a lot of easy challenges and there is a lot of help. If you are an expert, some of these challenges should still be very very difficult… As long as you are computer literate and have some interest in computer security, this event should be a lot of fun - and you will probably learn some things to.

There are some cool prizes this year like R/C Pirate vs. Ninja, Alber Einstein Action Figures, Computers, Penguin Mints, USB Memory Watch, The Zombie Survival Guide, and more.

For more information go to http://wargamez.org or reply to me.

Want to help make this event a success? Post fliers (some can be found http://wargamez.org/pages/posts/fliers–200816.php), tell your computer-minded friends and co-workers about it, and most of all show up!

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Rich Lundeen
http://webstersProdigy.net

Here is a video comparing showing off some of the features of Linux MCE. I really think this is heading in the right direction, but still requires fairly specific hardware according to my research. I’ll try to make a list of hardware that works well to mimic this experience.

This next video is a little like having The Comic Book Guy give the presentation, (Read more…)

Did you knew that GMail can now fetch e-mail messages from everywhere?
It appears to be true. Google just improved their e-mail service to gather messages from up to 5 POP3-enabled accounts. The service isn’t available to everyone yet, only for a few randomly chosen users.

We are looking forward to see this happening for every user out there, as this was the missing link on the chain for Gmail to be the perfect mail/webmail application.
I hope it happens for google apps for your domain pages like nickell.org soon. And it might be nice for those providers who allow POP but not forwarding.
Read on for how to tell if you have it, how to set it up, and what it looks like.
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A trip through history in rememberance of the day against DRM, Oct. 3rd. Learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org