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Here’s the link to the blog entry explaining what happened with Skype.

http://bit.ly/dLX8R8

The Navy has a new weapon.  An electromagnetic railgun that set a record by sending a metal projectile at mach 7.

Here’s the link to the video: http://fxn.ws/hFD6RH

If you’ve ever wondered about how goverments are fighting conterfeiting their money, this infographic will show what the US is doing.

Some of this technology is just amazing!

Here’s the site: The war against counterfeiting

Well, I knew it would happen sooner or later.

If you happen to have a Dell LCD monitor, don’t be too shocked if you find a padlock on your screen and alternately opens and closes.

that’s the OSD lock and it’s FUBARd!  Great engineering, Dell!  Anyhow, there ARE some fixes, but some are rather long and boring.  This one seems to work more often than not:

Go to the control panel (start, settings, control panel) and then click on display.  Now this is important.  change the resolution to the highest that the computer will let you do, click apply and then OK.

Go and chage the resolution back to what it was and again, click on apply and then OK.  If it doesn’t take the first time, do it again.

This should take out the padlock.  Oh, DON’T TOUCH THE BUTTONS ON THE MONITOR!!!!!  Do that and guess what comes back and, this time, may not be so easy to remove.

Techradar posted 25 nifty tricks and tweaks for your Blackberry!

<a href=”http://tinyurl.com/24hyv2d”>Blackberry tweaks</a>

Okay, if you were in the market for security software, better look elsewhere.  Intel is going to buy McAfee.

<a href=”http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-us-intel-mcafee-acquisition,0,791505.story”>McAfee Bought</a>

I’m using a USB app suite (liberkey)right now but don’t have the plugin for Flash because it’s a library computer.  Anyone manage to get flash working?

Here’s more info on the FCC obscenity rule getting quashed by the Federal Court:

<a href=”http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2010/07/13/court-tosses-fcc-naughty-language-policy-about-f_n-time/”>More on FCC</a>