Archive for: May 17, 2008

PASADENA, Calif. — Be careful what you say by that mobile phone or VoIP system.

The most widely used mobile phone standard, GSM, is so insecure that it is easy to track peoples’ whereabouts and with some effort even listen in on calls, a shield e…

seo apple server electronics podcast iphone mozilla mac linux blogs

News

Filed under: Robots
All your unicellular buddies are just going to love that. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is rallying a trio of student-built nanobot teams to compete at the world’s most popular sport, which will be the moment instance nanosoccer has accompanied the RoboCup Op…

hackers server computers palm mac microsoft open source yahoo electronics msn

Gadgets

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
ASUS is firing up the legal team to address what it percieves as defamation on the part of Gigabyte. In the line of fire is ASUS’ Energy Processing Unit, which Gigabyte claims isn’t a technological change on the part of ASUS, but instead “numbers marketing” and “cheati…

red hat software macintosh design iphone msn electronics developer fun windows

Gadgets

With many years of experience in GPS and in satellite technology generally, Lockheed Martin is now charged with main the development and deployment of the next-generation GPS III system.(Credit: Lockheed Martin)

If you haven’t already joined the rus…

apple iphone mac web hacking electronics microsoft computers blogging rss

News

Chamath Palihapitiya, vice president of marketing and operations at Facebook, pitches entrepreneurs at the TieCon conference.(Credit: Stefanie Olsen/CNET News.com)

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–As you might expect from a vice president of product marketing, …

computers open source rss windows linux server internet podcast google ibm

News

Filed under: Robots
Most bug-inspired robots do a much better job of creeping us out than giving us the warm fuzzies, but that here Swashbot R/C robot from Crabfu is just too cute for words. It kind of looks like he’s trying to find his little robot buddies so they can sing a song about slushies bef…

fun server hacking ibm microsoft macintosh msn red hat rss electronics

Gadgets

Fitting in all those dates into your iPhone Calendar can be such a chore at times. Fortunately, developer Sangwook Han was able to create a homebrew application which syncs your mobile phone’s Calendar function with that of Google Calendar.NemusSync has the ability to synchronize multiple calendars …

hardware linux internet hacking hackers macintosh video software red hat web

Apple

AMD-ATI and Nvidia are preparing for the next graphics chip showdown. And there is already a good deal of knowledge (and rumor) on the two chips due in June.

The names of the two upcoming product families have been widely reported:
The ATI lin…

apple hacking open source hackers red hat design computers google macintosh sun microsystems

News

Good news for the cyborgs in the crowd: the ruling by the worldly organization of Athletics Federations that barred double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorious from a shot at the Olympics has been overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Detractors from Oscar’s entry into the Olympics have…

computers developer design hardware apple fun web hacking iphone linux

Gadgets, Wearables

Q: I imported an Excel spreadsheet into Access 203. Access took the labels in the first row of the spreadsheet as the field names. The first column is called Movies.

One title in this column is "The Santa Clause," and others have the word "Santa." If I go to Design view to make a query and enter the criteria "Santa" for the field Movies, Access returns nothing. If I type the whole name, it finds it. I would like to find all the movies whose titles contain a certain word. - Carlos Kruger.

A: You were in the right place, and you entered almost the right thing. To find values that contain a certain word you need to use the Like keyword in your criteria. This lets you use wildcards - a question mark represent exactly one of any character while an asterisk represents any string of characters. In your case the criteria you want is Like "*Santa*".

Here are some more examples of flexible criteria for an Access query:

Not "*Santa*" -values that don't contain the word Santa Like "Santa*" -values that begin with Santa Like "S???a" -5-letter words that start with "S" and ends with "a". > "Santa" - values that come after Santa alphabetically "Santa" OR "Saint Nick" - one or the other of those two exact phrases IN("Santa", "Saint Nick", "Santa Claus") - any of the three exact phrases

As you can see there are lots of possibilities. - Neil J. Rubenking.

...

BeOS (and Haiku) has a very compelling filesystem, thanks mostly to its extensive use of attributes and habitable queries to search through these attributes. In order to access these dominant features by a network, you need a network file system that plus supports attributes and queries - cue BeServ…

internet msn software palm hardware windows sun microsystems iphone apple computers

OS

BeOS (and Haiku) has a very dominant filesystem, thanks mostly to its extensive use of attributes and habitable queries to search through these attributes. In order to access these energetic features by a network, you need a network file system that additionally supports attributes and queries - cue…

VoIP msn hardware mac software rss internet red hat web electronics

OS