An interesting note about the latest Android 4.4 appeared on one of the blogs:
Instead, Android might be able to emulate credit cards, transit passes, and secure entry badges in a more straight forward way.
Is this the beginning of the end of plastic in the wallet?
A trusted third party published this little article today:
http://zaufanatrzeciastrona.pl/post/badacz-twierdzi-ze-wirus-komunikuje-sie-przez-karte-dzwiekowa/
Hmm… points 1 and 2 sound somehow familiar. A few years ago, during a training, I described these methods; some people considered them fantasy back then.
DNS tunneling and ICMP tunneling have existed for years. I wonder when we will see data transmission through changes in a computer’s power consumption.
By the way, speakers are not required to generate sound ;-), but perhaps that is a topic for another time…
Job Aids for Server Core Installations of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24099
Checksums across many disks in different locations…
Could this be an alternative to RAID? Certainly not yet, but the project is worth watching…
The screen on my favorite Windows Mobile 6.1 device became miscalibrated. At first glance, nothing major: go into screen settings and choose calibration.
However, after every calibration attempt, the screen returned to the previous screen and calibration started again…
Changing one registry entry helped:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH\MaxCalError
from 7 to 200.
Found, of course, on the MoDaCo forum: http://www.modaco.com/topic/298247-screen-calibrate-in-loop/page__st__20