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USB malware: What you need to know

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:00:58 +0000

Tomorrow morning on Fox 2: How this USB drive could be worse than the worst malware you’ve ever imagined! Yes, when a security vulnerability hits TV news, it’s a big deal. It’s probably also sensationalized. And it’s not time to

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Cyanogenmod 10.1 runs surprisingly well on a Nook Color

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 11:00:57 +0000

Cyanogenmod–the open-source distribution of Android for undersupported/abandoned devices–went to version 10.1 this week. Version 10.1 is based on Android 4.2.2, so it matches what’s in stores right now. My Nook Color was sitting unused, so I figured I had nothing

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I found a reasonably good, inexpensive keyboard for the Sero 7 Pro

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:00:59 +0000

I bought a keyboard this week for the Hisense Sero 7 Pro. It’s a universal keyboard/case made by Afunta, and I paid $12.50 for it. I took a chance on it, and now you don’t have to. Its spring-loaded jaws

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New Raspberry Pi this week

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:54:15 +0000

The Raspberry Pi Model A (the cheaper, stripped-down version) was just released for $25. How is this news? Well, I thought the Model A was already available. It has half the memory of a Model B, and no Ethernet, and

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Roll your own Retro-64

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:19:16 +0000

So an upstart company has licensed the Commodore name and unveiled an updated C-64, which is essentially a nettop in a 64-alike case with a 64-like keyboard. Reactions are extreme. People either love it or hate it. I’d like to

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Linux gets more attractive on the Xbox

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 15 Apr 2003 23:41:05 +0000

There's been another milestone in getting Linux running on Microsoft's Xbox game console. It's now possible to get it going if you bridge a couple of solder points on the motherboard to enable flashing the unit's BIOS, then you use the James Bond 007 game and a save game that exploits a buffer overflow, and with a few more tricks, you can unlock the hard drive, put it in a Linux PC, install Linux, then move the drive back to the Xbox and turn it into a cheap Linux box.

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