Apparently at the behest of the Federal Government, manufacturers of color laser printers are quietly embedding individual-unit-identifying yellow marks on each print they spit out.
Of course, it's a huge concern for civil libertarians who are seeing red over the yellow dots. The long arm of the law on the printer manufacturers will be tested by consumeristic efforts like Seeing Yellow, whose "buffer overflow" campaign is apparently more than the Feds are willing to continue chasing down . . . but will it prove compelling enough for manufacturers to change their stripes (and dots)?
Monday, July 23, 2007
Monday, July 09, 2007
Tips for Extending Notebook Battery Life
Basically, these tips all boil down to one of just a few rules: 1) manufacturers are improving battery life, so new products have better battery life; 2) a well-maintained notebook is a battery-life-efficient notebook; and the 3) the more stuff you ask your laptop to do (multi-tasking, running CDs, etc.), the worse its battery life will be. A nice little primer . . .
Networking Gear Default Passwords
Just ran across a great little addition to the ol' "online toolkit": an online listing of the manufacturer's default passwords for hundreds of networking devices.
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