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Company Introduces Full-Function Computer on a Flash Drive by KYW's tech reporter Bob Bicknell By now you’ve seen those thumb-sized "flash drives" you can just stick into your computer’s USB port and use like a portable hard drive. But now, that same little device can do a whole lot more. No longer are flash-memory hard drives reserved for just documents or MP3 files. Now, thanks to the folks at Fingergear, you can carry a mini computer with you. The aptly named "Computer on a Stick" is a small, lighter-sized USB drive that carries its own operating system (Linux), a complete...

A systematic effort by hackers to penetrate US government and industry computer networks stems most likely from the Chinese military, the head of a leading security institute said. The attacks have been traced to the Chinese province of Guangdong, and the techniques used make it appear unlikely to come from any other source than the military, said Alan Paller, the director of the SANS Institute, an education and research organization focusing on cybersecurity. "These attacks come from someone with intense discipline. No other organization could do this if they were not a military organization," Paller said in a conference call...

I am looking to put a new motherboard and processor in my desktop. I am looking to have the best I can get the cheapest possible of course. I have a tower, a 350 watt power sourse, dvd writer, just looking to upgrade. Need an onboard video card, or advice on how to go

Besides housing the apes in natural habitats for public viewing, the building houses the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, a zoo-funded research component that employs Ross. Keo was the first ape to be trained to use the screen, in January. Currently Keo is doing a task Ross calls "match to sample." Teaching apes to use computers is not new. Keo was the first ape to be trained to use the screen, in January. Teaching apes to use computers is not new.

  We Support Our Troops!!!!  Thank you for your service!!! Let's hear what YOU want for Christmas this year. If you don't celebrate Christmas, we'd still love to hear what new toy, gadget, gizmo, or whatchamacallit you'd like to have.  If you don't know, Gummy  has some ideas for you!! Just look below.  Some of our Canteeners have offered suggestions, too.       HiJinx Okay, at the top of my political wish list is Zarqawi's head on a spike. At the top of my tech wish list is a top of the line 19" LCD monitor. At the top of...

I'm looking to buy software to monitor computer useage by teens. I'm leaning toward Spector Pro but wanted to get feedback from y'all. Any recommendations or comments?

Gummy Style!            Newsflash:  Gummy Hates to Shop November 22, 2005 I hate to shop.  I know. You are thinking, "She's not normal."  Perhaps I should clarify.  I hate to drive to a busy mall or store, get out, fight the crowds, look in umpteen stores for the best bargain, and come home with nothing but achy feet and head.  When Al Gore invented the internet, he did it for me.  Honest. (Psssst....He would have told you that, but he's afraid you wouldn't believe him.) OK,  you've guessed it...I do all my shopping online.  Below are my best tips for online...

At the onset of the twenty-first century, humanity stands on the verge of the most transforming and the most thrilling period in its history. It will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged, as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity. For over three decades, the great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic...

Ok, I bought a puter from WalMart on July 23,2005. Compaq Presario SR1403wm XP SP2 came preinstalled. I have 256 memory 65 gig hard drive. Windoze does not recognize my cd/dvd/rw drive. Gone in BIOS! Got to tinkering around and saw a lot of freaking i tunes crap on there from August 2004????WTF I have NEVER been to i tunes or even opened it??? So did WalFart sell me a refurbished system as a new one? It appears they sold me a HUGE VIRUS w/ a PUTER wrapped around it,,lol. Meanie is MAD!!! tech help sux and I feel smashing...

TUNIS, Tunisia - A U.N. technology summit was focused Thursday on bringing more communications, including Internet access, to developing countries where the cost has been too high and the technology too low-tech. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and Senegalese President H.E. Wade were among the leaders scheduled to address the World Summit on the Information Society, which ends on Friday. At the same time, several companies and organizations were unveiling their plans to bring the world closer and, in a sense, narrow the digital divide, by providing laptops that cost just US$100 (euro85) to portable, satellite-based radios that can pull in...

I have come across some video on a website of my son's platoon in action. Does anyone know of a way to download a videoclip that is imbedded so to speak in a website?

        ~ The FReeper Canteen Presents~Modern Times: My favorite PC or Game Console games are?....   Back to normal for all of you that refuse to write or read backwards. I was thinking about writing everything in Samoan, but MoJo is too lazy to translate everything.          HOWDY!     What we're doing:With Christmas coming, we figured it would be a good idea to do this thread again for those of you that didn't catch it the first time.Besides, the XBox 360 will release at Walmart a week from today. If you are...

First, we're running Windows XP on a HP computer.Ok, so Jr. M is trying to record something through the computer microphone but something isn't working. Thought the old mic didn't work so ran to Walmart for a new one. Bought the only brand they sold - Labtec. Can't find where to install the new mic into "add new hardware" or even if it needs to be installed or if it will work by just plugging it in. Yes, we did plug it into the proper slot - pink cord into pink port. Yes, the volume is on. So, we clicked...

By Andrew Orlowski Published Thursday 9th September 2004 13:36 GMT P2P jail bill moves forward By Andrew Orlowski Published Thursday 9th September 2004 13:36 GMT HR.4077, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act, has been approved by the United States' House Judiciary Committee. The bill specifies up to five years' jail for anyone making over a thousand copyrighted works available for download. That's if the infringer is profiting from the action: ordinary P2P users would face up to three years simply for making their collections available. Thwarted by the courts, copyright holders and their lobby groups, notably the Recording Industry Ass. of...

Police are trying to identify a man who robbed the Fairfield Meijer store last Tuesday. Investigators say the man a $14.95 price tag on a $750 computer and made it through checkout. Coincidentally, a sign at the end of the lane said "Best Deal of the Season." Police say the man drove away in a maroon Ford F-150 pickup and possibly has ties to the Dayton, Ohio area. If you can help police identify the man, call CrimeStoppers at 352-3040.

The word "reinvent" is a dumb term, having an overtone of redundancy. After all, when you have invented something, it exists. You can revise it or change it, but you can't "reinvent" it after you have already invented it. I never heard the term when I first entered the workforce. But somewhere in the 1970s or so, corporate executives-began using the word, and using it a lot. Then as now, the nation had its usual economic ups and downs, but suddenly after one downturn, our nation was heavily laden with companies that had reinvented themselves. What happened is that after...

The MIT Media Laboratory expects to launch a prototype of its US$100 laptop in November, according to Nicholas Negroponte, the lab's chairman and co-founder. The facility has been working with industry partners to develop a notebook computer for use by children in primary and secondary education around the world, particularly in developing countries. The laptops should start appearing in volume in late 2006.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The $100 laptop computers that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers want to get into the hands of the world's children would be durable, flexible and self-reliant. The machines' AC adapter would double as a carrying strap, and a hand crank would power them when there's no electricity. They'd be foldable into more positions than traditional notebook PCs, and carried like slim lunchboxes. For example, to keep the $100 laptops from being widely stolen or sold off in poor countries, he expects to make them so pervasive in schools and so distinctive in design that it would be...

In a battle of wits with kitchen appliances, I'm toast BY DAVE BARRY (This classic Dave Barry column was originally published on Feb. 27, 2000.) Recently, The Washington Post printed an article explaining how the appliance manufacturers plan to drive consumers insane. Of course, they don't SAY they want to drive us insane. What they SAY they want to do is have us live in homes where ''all appliances are on the Internet, sharing information'' and appliances will be ''smarter than most of their owners.'' For example, the article states, you would have a home where the dishwasher ''can be...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Virtually everything that has happened in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina struck was predicted by experts and in computer models, so emergency management specialists wonder why authorities were so unprepared. "The scenario of a major hurricane hitting New Orleans was well anticipated, predicted and drilled around," said Clare Rubin, an emergency management consultant who also teaches at the Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management at George Washington University. Computer models developed at Louisiana State University and other institutions made detailed projections of what would happen if water flowed over the levees protecting the city or if...