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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It also includes a two-speaker surround sound system, presumably so others can appreciate your tasteful selection of ring tones in glorious high fidelity, and an optical scanner in the base. With the scanner, you just swipe the phone across the...
[July 4, 2003, 17:33]
Ten Security Laws You Can Rely On
News Law #8: An out of date virus scanner is only marginally better than no virus scanner at all. I've often been called in to assess the damage caused by a software vulnerability that the company thinks may have been exploited.
[February 7, 2005, 17:15]
Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 - Wrap-Up
Blog But when the lid is closed, the fingerprint scanner is covered, so to log in I have to either open the lid, scan, and close the lid, or login with my password. After using the laptop for ten days while traveling, I was accustomed to logging in by...
[January 7, 2008, 12:47]
As The Mac Turns 20, Has The PC Caught Up?
Talkback This morning I've just recieved a new up to date full version copy of Ai silverfast scanner software and what a suprise, its not intalling, Yet more problems! Regarding the Epson 7500 printer, I've been through all the Mac forums and more, no one...
[February 12, 2004, 12:14]
Debbie And Kraken, Like The Wolf And The Falcon
Blog Comment I can see hosting a RSS and website scanner system on her to pull news stories I'm interested in. I've stopped watching TV news, its easier and faster on the web. Actually I've spent a good part of last night and this morning looking at Kraken and...
[July 1, 2007, 17:56]
Weekend Detour, Vista To XP
Blog There is a native Vista driver for the printer itself, but I also have the IS-12 scan head for it, so I can use it as a scanner when traveling as well, and this is another item that is not supported and never will be on Vista.
[November 26, 2007, 7:12]
Vint Cerf: Launching An Interplanetary Web
News Well, the ones that really get me, of course, are the ones where you have these Internet-enabled appliances; things like refrigerators would have Internet capability and maybe a scanner that can sense bar codes and things like that.
[June 21, 2001, 10:21]
Q&A: Adaptec's Silver On FireWire
News You could send digital video, digital audio, send information to the printer, scanner, even a cable modem. Because FireWire is isochronous it means printer and scanner makers can make their products at a much lower cost because they get a steady...
[September 19, 1996, 14:33]
Gmail: A First Look
Talkback They may be including a virus scanner in the public release. Also, I've heard, but not tested this yet, that Gmail does not allow you to receive executables. You have to remember that Gmail is still beta.
[May 9, 2004, 21:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's not a fingerprint scanner to which I wish to give the finger… As I've been mostly asleep between then and now - excepting being mostly awake since Monday evening - my personal neurochemistry seems unaffected by melatonin - I haven't had...
[September 2, 2005, 19:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Palm M100, Gateway laptop, Sony shortwave radio, HP digital camera, Icom R2 VHF scanner, Sendo moby.travel light, that's what I say, especially when you've got a weekend off. Tuesday 4/6/2002 The train from Edinburgh is only 40 minutes late getting...
[June 7, 2002, 18:15]
Microsoft AntiSpyware: Is It Worth Bothering With?
News AntiSpyware is more than just a spyware scanner; it also provides some management tools and provides real-time protection by watching for more than 50 ways spyware can insinuate its way onto your system.
[January 24, 2005, 13:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog BitDefender, the Romanian company who added the signature of the virus to their scanner only to receive complaints from users who liked what it did, is unsure. And don't think I wasn't tempted), the idea of seeking out and destroying all the bad...
[June 17, 2005, 18:45]
I Can't Help It If My Code's Read, Says Researcher
News Publicly available sample code allows players such as system administrators, security scanner makers and intrusion detection equipment makers to update their products more quickly, Litchfield said. A massive failure of the emergency services...
[February 5, 2003, 15:45]
Fighting Back Against Spam
News Many spammers succeed in thwarting content filtering by disguising certain key words and by embedding all text within file types the scanner cannot read. So if you’ve made the decision to filter incoming email, your next step is to determine...
[November 13, 2003, 10:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog MP3s captured by scanner enthusiasts reputedly exist which contain stuff like: Most of the two-way radios I've seen have a little light that lights up red when you're on the air and doesn't when you're not, and its absence from plane radios is...
[September 23, 2005, 18:50]
Red Hat Recommends Windows For Consumers
Talkback Digital Imaging is well supported, and I have a scanner on one machine which can be accessed from any of the other machines on the network (so far I've not heard of any Windows system being able to do that, but then I haven't fiddled with XP/2k.
[November 5, 2003, 5:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's also desperately vulnerable to some plonker kicking over the generator, scrawling "BIG BROTHER IS READING YOUR PLATES: TURN LEFT IF YOU'VE SOMETHING TO HIDE" on a sign just down the road, or coming back to the scene of the crime a few minutes...
[September 26, 2003, 18:40]
Slowly Getting Better
Talkback My scanner hasn't got x64 drivers and I can't fax cos cant find any x64 drivers for any of my 3 v92 dialup modems. Hp now has 64bit drivers albeit beta, I've got the drivers installed for my Deskjet 5552 (but as a previous poster said, lost some...
[November 5, 2006, 10:28]
As The Mac Turns 20, Has The PC Caught Up?
Talkback When I was using OS 9.2, everything worked fine, now I have to unpluge one firewire scanner to get the other to work, the large epson7500 printer no longer works on OS X, and will probabaly never work (spent days trying to get it to work).
[February 5, 2004, 10:24]
