cerebral odd jobs

Gizmo’s latest newsletter continues his series on portable computing security and his experience with U3 and proprietary USB program launchers. see Port-a-puter for the roadless warrior: U3 and thumbtops, portable computing and How to make a Thumbtop PC
Issue 147, 19th July, 2007

http://techsupportalert.com/issues/back_issues.htm

Editorial
Securing USB flash drives is not quite as simple [...]

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[Meandering the Information Superhighway -- don't worry, it's safe. On dial-up the tubes are clogged]
Click photo to visit http://wellingtongrey.blogspot.com/, the source of the Computer is a Skinner Box *

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Brainbiter http://sophronismos.wordpress.com/

Skinner Box
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Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad
Skinner Box at Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinner_Box

Social Bookmarks: [...]

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Over at http://edublogs.org/forums/ is an interesting set of suggestions for mobile apps, either for cell phone and other handheld devices or laptops.
Wibowo at http://nooventures.edublogs.org/ started this discussion by mentioning www.skweezer.net. He added a whole group of interesting “Dial-up and Mobility Survival Kits” that he uses. Must see his list at http://edublogs.org/forums/topic.php?id=784&replies=5#post-3762
Skweezer [...]

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If you are new to using the Internet, there are some good books to read first. The best resource is your local librarian. They can show you how to learn the terminology, features of a browser, etc. (For example, there’s no need for URLs for showing categories with contents, only for linking to them in [...]

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2007-03-01 revised
Blogging and the Internet, like computers over the past 60 years*, can be extremely useful for some things. But they are mostly famous for doing exactly what we say and not what we mean.
To avoid overdosing on frustration, follow these steps.
As the cover of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy states–

Don’t Panic

(written in large, [...]

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This is a placeholder entry, to be modified, about the need for Internet and computer literacy /numeracy /
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/13/teacher_faces_40_yea.html
teachers at this school were prohibited by policy from turning off school computers, which would answer the “why didn’t she just shut down the PC?” questions. Amero testified that she told four other teachers and the school’s [...]

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