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Do you Poken? Ever wonder when the business card will disappear from everyday use? This device uses a proprietary Radio Frequency Identifier to interchange a secure key to information privately just like a secure business card.  Embedded in your profile can be any social networking site connections as well as any chat, email, phone,or website interchange.

There’s a place to link to your blog, facebook, twitter and much more. If you’re a social networker, it’s a hip new way to “High 4” your information to a new contact as well as get their contact info while saving a tree.

Simply touch the palms of the pokens together and they start flashing green, you’ve transferred the information.

You can keep 64 contacts before you have to download them to the website, so sync up often.

Ask your friends, do you poken?

Microsoft’s strategy is changing in the world of computers. Today it announced that there would be a free stripped-down version of it’s online version of the popular office products available soon.

Wall Street Journal has a great article HERE.

For all you people who have just been browsing and suddenly find your computer infected with junk!
here’s why.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218500140

Go here and PLEASE select the fix it and apply it to your computers. the fix it turns off the part of active x that is vulnerable.

Hackers have been exploiting the bug since early June, Microsoft is releasing a patch July 14th

This hole in IE could be more damaging than the one  the conflicker virus exploited.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/340930/Researcher_Says_IE_Bug_Could_Spread_Quickly?taxonomyId=17 .

I’m running a real world test using linux to give you guys some numbers.

I’m doing a sector for sector copy of a 1 Terabyte SATA II western digital drive to another 1 Terabyte SATA II Western digital thru usb.

I’ll post the results on my blog.

For the record I’m using a quad core Intel chip, Biostar board, Thermaltake USB docks (2 of them)

Right now it looks like drive to drive copy using:
ddrescue -n /dev/sdb /dev/sdc

it looks like it’s going to take about 16 hours of transfer time (estimated at this point) to copy between the drives.

I’m going to try 2 different platforms and drives and give you guys some real world numbers here.

I use SATA II External Thermaltake drives for data transfer of striped array members for their ease of use and hook them up with ESATA as a rule.

It will be interesting to see the performance difference for the copy, of course copying from drive to drive amplifies difference in speed.

(My blog is at http://www.coredatarecovery.com)

Twitter 101 — What you need to know about Social Networking

Thursday, February 26^th – Social Network Basics

It’s not the $600 billion plan currently running thru Congress, but we have decided to offer free workshops every couple of months on the most popular topics we’re being asked about. For February it’s social networking. It seems like everyone has gotten depressed about the economy and gotten a Twitter account – but now what to do with the thing?

Or, perhaps your solution to dealing with the economic downturn is to try to get your employees excited about using MySpace and Facebook. That’s probably NOT the best idea, but do you know why?

Maybe you just need help deciding on a strategy for which of the dozens of sites and widgets to begin with.

Even if you’re not interested in using these sites for business purposes, if you have kids you need to come to this workshop. A basic understanding can be very important.

We will meet at a central location (to be decided when we see how many confirmations we get) and chat for about an hour about social networks. Twitter, Facebook, Digg, etc.  We’ll cover the basics – what they are, how you can use them wisely, how to find information and what NOT to do. If you’re interested in attending, the class will be at 3pm on Thursday, February 26^th. Email or call us and we’ll get you confirmed and get back to you with a location.

Please RSVP 520-861-1673 so that we may reserve enough seats

So, you’ve blown up you qwest modem.

Never fear, We can get you up and running.

If you can find it, you should retrieve your inital letter, called the welcome letter from qwest.

This comes when you signed up for your dsl service.

Can’t find it?, Ok

You need to find a bill from qwest (Last month’s is perfect)

Call this number – Qwest DSL Support – 1-888-777-9569,  Option 1

You need your DSL NUMBER and your last 4 digits from your account number (On your last bill)

With the computer plugged into the network physically, open the modem in internet explorer

http://192.168.0.1

User is admin

Password is admin

Click the connect button, Enter the username and password provided to you by qwest for your account to get you up and running again.

You should setup your wireless if you wish to have wireless.

You should also change your router password from the default.

If that doesn’t get you up and running, give me a call.

Chuck House

(520) 861-1673

I’ve reviewed a 4 TB External RAID (Redundant Array Of Independent Disks)

For backup purposes, Or high speed storage these rock.

These Raid array boxes come complete with (4) 1 TB Western digital 7200 rpm drives.

They can be configured with striped mode (4TB high speed with up to 3Gbps transfer) great for high speed backup or video editing.

Or they can be setup with raid 0 + 1, Striped and mirrored (for High speed & mirrored operation (2 TB size))

Below are the specs, I’ve ordered one in for myself, if anyone out there needs one of these, just call

520-861-1673
Specs:
4TB Quad Bay RAID SATA to USB & eSATA

RAID 0+1, 0, JBOD RAID Subsystem

USB 2.0 (480mbps)/eSATA (3.0Gbps)

Windows ME/2000/XP/Vista, Mac OSX

Package Information:

• 4TB eSATA & USB Quad Bay External RAID Subsystem x 1
• eSATA Cable x 1
• USB 2.0 Cable x 1
• Power Cord x 1
• Manual x 1
• 3 Year Warranty

Drop.io is a service, They free drops of up to 100 Megabytes. Bigger drops cost a little but work well.

Their service is secure and encrypted and the drop is password protected as well.

You can specify the drop to last 3 days and then it dissapears.

Perfect solution if you need to transfer critical files to your customer.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/961051.mspx

There’s a patch coming but, if you are running this as your default web browser, I recommend reading this link above and following the work around. There will be many password stealing & malware bugs written for this in the coming weeks and it’s a good Idea to patch this hole.