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Patrick Jost's Blog: Mouse Tales
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8226; tools, books, music, and more… •. Sunday, November 13, 2011. It is no secret that I love Apple products. Their mouse (on the right) may be an exception. I have gone through two of them in as many years. What goes wrong? The little trackball stops working. The trackball is a wonderful idea, and if you fiddle with it (rub it on a piece of paper, etc.) sometimes it will work-for a while. Review and commentary (c) 2011 by Patrick Jost. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Apple: World's Best Computers.
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8226; tools, books, music, and more… •. Thursday, April 25, 2013. 2600 has been reviewed here before, as there's almost always something of interest in it. That's true for the Spring 2013 edition as well. One article that may be of use (though not necessarily for the purpose used by the author) is "The Usage of the Assumption Technique in Social Engineering" found on page 51. A moral, if there is one, is that "hacking" is not always a bad thing. The "hacking spirit" is to figure out how things work, ...
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Patrick Jost's Blog: October 2013
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8226; tools, books, music, and more… •. Friday, October 11, 2013. James Clerk Maxwell: The Man Who Changed Everything. Mahon, Basil (2004). The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell. This is an excellent biography of an important person. Maxwell took the first color photograph. Maxwell determined the nature of Saturn's rings. Maxwell identified the relationship between light, electricity and magnetism. Review (c) 2013 by Michael Patrick Jost. The man who changed everything.
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Patrick Jost's Blog: August 2011
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8226; tools, books, music, and more… •. Tuesday, August 30, 2011. If there is one criticism of John Monahan. S They Called Me Mad. It is the length-it is not long enough. The book begins with a discussion of Archimedes. Who is probably the first person to conceive of, and maybe attempt to implement a "death ray"),it then moves on to alchemy. Misguided efforts to transmute lead into gold that laid the foundations for modern chemistry. From grave robbery to modern medicine), and the work of Nikola Tesla.
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Patrick Jost's Blog: November 2012
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8226; tools, books, music, and more… •. Monday, November 26, 2012. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Given the increasing prevalence of cybercrime and related threats, this is a publication well worth being aware of. It has been around for a long time, and hopefully it will continue to be published. It can be hard to find, but subscriptions are available. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Apple: World's Best Computers. MELLEL-Word Processing for Mac OS X. Radio Free Jost (1).
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Patrick Jost's Blog: 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
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8226; tools, books, music, and more… •. Monday, November 26, 2012. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Given the increasing prevalence of cybercrime and related threats, this is a publication well worth being aware of. It has been around for a long time, and hopefully it will continue to be published. It can be hard to find, but subscriptions are available. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Apple: World's Best Computers. MELLEL-Word Processing for Mac OS X. Radio Free Jost (1).
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Patrick Jost's Blog: April 2013
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8226; tools, books, music, and more… •. Thursday, April 25, 2013. 2600 has been reviewed here before, as there's almost always something of interest in it. That's true for the Spring 2013 edition as well. One article that may be of use (though not necessarily for the purpose used by the author) is "The Usage of the Assumption Technique in Social Engineering" found on page 51. A moral, if there is one, is that "hacking" is not always a bad thing. The "hacking spirit" is to figure out how things work, ...
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Patrick Jost's Blog: November 2011
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8226; tools, books, music, and more… •. Sunday, November 13, 2011. It is no secret that I love Apple products. Their mouse (on the right) may be an exception. I have gone through two of them in as many years. What goes wrong? The little trackball stops working. The trackball is a wonderful idea, and if you fiddle with it (rub it on a piece of paper, etc.) sometimes it will work-for a while. Review and commentary (c) 2011 by Patrick Jost. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Apple: World's Best Computers.
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Patrick Jost's Blog: July 2012
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8226; tools, books, music, and more… •. Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Basic Electricity (Dover Publications). This is Dover Publications. Reprint of Basic Electricity. From the Bureau of Naval Personnel. It was originally published in 1970. 1970, you ask? How could it possibly still be relevant? Hasn't a lot changed since then? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Basic Electricity (Dover Publications). Apple: World's Best Computers. MELLEL-Word Processing for Mac OS X. Radio Free Jost (1). Radio Free Jost (2).