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Tech-Joe |:| Projects: The old radio.

Joel Frank (Tech-Joe) — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:39:35 -0800

I got into my mad scientest mood a couple of weeks ago and went delving into a box of stuff I keep for spare parts. I came out with an old battery powered radio, a pair of head phones and an old nokia charger. Before moving the computer back to my room this radio used to play through the line in jack of the computer, I decided to see if it would still l work. Turns out the radio had some burnt out resistors, so I replaced those, cut the jack off of the charger and used that as a power supply. The I snipped off the speakers of the head phone and use the wire and to interface betwween the line in port of the computer and the speaker leads of the radio. It worked! I turned it on and tuned in to some cricket, Go West Indies!!

Project specs: Radio Power Rating: 2 x 1.5 v AA Batteries

Charger Input Max: AC 260 v [110 v main supply used]

Chargre Output: DC 4.5v - 12 v Headphones: Your standard disc man / walkman / mp3 player head phones

Tech-Joe |:| Tech-Joe Blog: Server Attack.

Joel Frank (Tech-Joe) — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:40:28 -0800

This evening someone that uses the same ISP as I do, decided to get a port scanner and scan for open ports, he found port 80 on my machine open, as I run a web server whenever I'm on line. Anyways this individual proceeded to try and attack my machine through port 80. Although the web server did a very good job of deflecting his attacks I still stepped up the security of my system. You can never have too much protection..... unless of course you try to run two firewalls.

Tech-Joe |:| Tech Advice: Using OEM Logo Stamper

Joel Frank (Tech-Joe) — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:39:19 -0800

To obtain a copy of OEM Logo Stamper visit it's homepage here. After downloading and installing the software you'll find it in your start men. Start the program.... if there is no OEM logo \ information detected s message box saying so will be displayed, just click ok if such a box pops up. The screen you see now has 14 editable fields. Each field edits the information described to the left, with the exception of the Logo Image path field which edits logo displayed. Feel free to play around with this tool, although it cannot damage your system, I recommend that you make a note of all the information you changed and their default values. Just to be on the safe side.