Je ne suis pas un numéro de hotline, je suis un geek libre ! - Où suis-je ?- Au village !- Que me voulez-vous ? Lorsqu’on écoute un linuxien se plaindre et râler, il y a fort à parier que cela concerne le système Windows de Microsoft. Car, avant d’être linuxien, Robert est avant tout considéré comme celui-qui-s’y-connait-en-informatique. Robert ayant passé des heures à configurer l’ordinateur de Gérard, lui ayant expressément recommandé de ne pas utiliser Internet Explorer, il est forcément fou de rage quand, une semaine plus tard, Gérard lui annonce que l’ordinateur est de nouveau “planté”. Alors, comme Robert est gentil, il va se contenter d’aller hurler sa haine sur son blog[1] ou dans un forum. Celui qui… Beaucoup de linuxiens se reconnaîtront probablement dans cette caricature de Robert. En effet, chaque semaine lorsque je rentrais à la maison, je passais une soirée à mettre à jour les antivirus, à supprimer les spywares installés, à nettoyer les répertoires temporaires un peu partout. Non, je ne suis pas un helpdesk ! Oui mais … Et alors ?
Grospixels Psy et Geek ;-) Clues Suggest Stuxnet Virus Was Built for Subtle Nuclear Sabotage | Threat Level New and important evidence found in the sophisticated “Stuxnet” malware targeting industrial control systems provides strong hints that the code was designed to sabotage nuclear plants, and that it employs a subtle sabotage strategy that involves briefly speeding up and slowing down physical machinery at a plant over a span of weeks. “It indicates that [Stuxnet's creators] wanted to get on the system and not be discovered and stay there for a long time and change the process subtly, but not break it,” (.pdf) says Liam O Murchu, researcher with Symantec Security Response, which published the new information in an updated paper on Friday. The Stuxnet worm was discovered in June in Iran, and has infected more than 100,000 computer systems worldwide. At first blush, it appeared to be a standard, if unusually sophisticated, Windows virus designed to steal data, but experts quickly determined it contained targeted code designed to attack Siemens Simatic WinCC SCADA systems. See also:
w3sh : Lifestyle magazine. Design, fashion, gadgets, art, tendan LuckySlug’s Scrapbook Real-life gadgets for real-life superheroes Yes, there are real-life superheroes. And no, we’re not just referring to firefighters, paramedics, and other heroic people who we’re used to seeing coming to the rescue of others. We’re talking about costume-wearing, identity-concealing, cool-name-having people who fight crime, pollution, or other evils in their own communities, on their own time, and at their own risk. Many of them actually patrol the city streets, ready to intervene if they see trouble brewing – and being ready includes having the right tools. View all Off-the-rack items First of all, there are some household products that are popular in the RLSH (Real Life Superhero) community, including flashlights, first aid kits, mobile phones, cameras, and zip ties, to use as handcuffs. The Eye’s Custom Gear Just as Spiderman is known for his web shooters and Wonder Woman for her golden lariat, so many RLSHs are known – at least within their community – for their custom-made gadgets. Master Legend and the Master Blaster
Geek Inc C'est La Gêne Shut up, Spock! – how Battlestar Galactica beat Trek babble High performance access to file storage Interview No guns firing beams of light. No photon torpedoes. And, sorry, no aliens – menacing or otherwise. The "re-imagined" Battlestar Galactica that concluded last year couldn't have been further from its 1970s namesake – or from what most of us think of as sci-fi. In fact, the science and technology in the award-winning show – the story of survivors of a human civilization fleeing a nuclear holocaust unleashed by machines and now searching for a new home called Earth – couldn't have been more hidden or more familiar in some cases. What we got was guns firing lead bullets, battleships hurling nuclear missiles at each other, and a space vessel - Galactica - that was more mauled aircraft carrier than sleek ship. The reason? Moore has written for Star Trek Voyager, and he believed that story development in the series had been hindered by the sort of Roddenberrian nonsense that was used to explain how the original USS Enterprise worked.
AspectGeek Celestia archive at Negative Space Finally! After two and a half years in the making, my celestial clock is finished. I guess you could call it my Christmas gift to myself: In following posts, I’ll explain a little bit more about how I designed an built it. Here are some still photos of the Clock, in Progress. Back in 2005, I created a sort-of industrial art-project in the form of a decorative brass clock. The clock is 2-feet by 2-feet in a solid oak case. Although it looks as though it might be mechanical, its actually a network enabled robot in the shape of a clock. The clock gets the time/date from the NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) over a WiFi connection. The rest is software, much as it should be. When I started the project, I had some foggy notion of what I wanted to create (A celestial clock made of brass) but I didn’t have a good idea of what sort of design, style and imagery I wanted to include. Another source of inspiration was the Uranographicarum Star Atlas.
ChroGeek How-to find the fastest wireless carrier or wired Internet where you live and work February 23, 2011, 4:32 PM — Getting the best performance and coverage is a key part of choosing a wireless carrier. Yes, there are plenty of other important questions to consider. What phones, smartphones, tablets, USB modems, netbooks, or MiFi cards are available? What individual, family, and business plans are available? Is data use unlimited, pay-per-GB, or throttled after a cap has been reached? Whether your phone or device will get coverage where you live, work, and frequently travel, however, is paramount. Up till now, all consumers have really had access to is the coverage maps that carriers provide. What carriers don’t show is how well their data service performs in any given area where they have coverage. Thankfully, this state of affairs is no longer the case. The National Broadband Map has all manner of interesting statistics and information that you can view. There are a couple of caveats, of course. One is that the you see speed but not price.