How does a LCD Monitor Work? A teardown…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com?v=jiejNAUwcQ8] Bill takes apart an LCD monitor and shows how it works. He explains how it uses liquid crystals, thin film transistors and polarizers to display information.
Category: Education
First hand footage of Tsunami & Earthquake
Here’s footage directly from the Tsunami, in HD, even… [youtube http://www.youtube.com?v=GpuLlIrUYsI] And someone video taped the earthquake…  While it’s not in HD, it’s excellent footage… [youtube http://www.youtube.com?v=PZvjqJs_qkA]
World’s first known news broadcast shot entirely using the iPad 2
Fox 4 in South Texas broadcasted the first known news story from the iPad 2 yesterday as part of a St. Patrick’s day segment.Reporter Mike McNeil broadcasted his piece from a liquor store and proved he was using the device by showing off his iPad 2 box. McNeil … via World’s first known news broadcast […]
Post Earthquake Tokyo – Food & Supplies
Dannychoo discusses food shortages, or the mostly lack of food shortages, in Japan after the earthquake… From his description I would say that everything is mainly on track and running fairly smoothly. The Japanese government appears to be handling this disaster fairly more smoothly than I would have ever believed. Oh yes, your wondering how […]
A Risk Worth Taking…
‘Something Ventured’ filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine explain their documentary, which traces firms like Apple, along with the risk-takers who wrote checks, hoping for the next big thing. MSNBC TRANSCRIPT: >>> we’re back looking at the great successes and via A Risk Worth Taking….
A look back at Chernobyl disaster, in lieu of Japan’s disaster..
We all know that Japan is in the middle of recovering from a disaster…  And has more issues that they are still dealing with, mainly the Nuclear Power plant issues… But, what do we know about Nuclear Reactors?  And what about the last great nuclear disaster?  The Chernobyl disaster? (The Chernobyl link is a great review […]
How smoke detectors work
[youtube http://www.youtube.com?v=oFUUQcpGR3k] Bill takes apart a smoke detector and shows how it uses a radioactive source to generate a tiny current which is disrupted when smoke flows through the sensor. He describes how a special transistor called a MOSFET can be used to detect the tiny current changes.
The Inners of a Small Computer Security Firm
From: Greg To: Jussi Subject: need to ssh into rootkitim in europe and need to ssh into the server. can you drop open upfirewall and allow ssh through port 59022 or something vague?and is our root password still 88j4bb3rw0cky88 or did we change to88Scr3am3r88 ?thanks From: Jussi To: Greg Subject: Re: need to ssh into… […]