For those that are not aware, the use of a car’s horn is to warn others of emergencies on the road, especially if those emergencies might result from them not knowing your location. “Honk” generally means “I’m over here. Danger is involved!”
There are many different kinds of technology designed to reduce our reliance on foreign oil or to decrease pollution some of the most promising are:
One of the major objections I’ve heard against drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge is that it would not produce a lot of oil. I’m not sure what people consider a lot, but the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Arctic Refuge survey (page 18), states that the mean average projected amount of oil is 13.8 bbo (Billion Barrels of Oil).
According to the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) the united states used approximately 7.5 BBO in Crude Oil and Petroleum Products in 2006.
That’s approximately 1.8 years of fueling America just on it’s own.
Earlier today one of my friends asked me what the heck was up with my blog, and some of my other friends have already heard the howls of my frustration, and the gnashing of my teeth. That, combined with the new adds, leads me to believe that a post about the changes is likely warranted.
Until recently, I’ve had free hosting on my workplace’s server. However I’ll be starting a new job soon, which means I’ll be leaving the old one. Unfortunately that means I needed to either find a new hosting service, or pony up the $30 a month that businesses pay for hosting (and quarterly updates). Since I wouldn’t be using the quarterly updates, and I’m still getting my blog and site how I want them, that’s hardly cost efficient for me.
Because of this fact I moved my site over to GoDaddy, and am currently taking advantage of their free hosting until I have my site setup, or until I find better free hosting - possibly with my ISP, or my job. This hosting is payed for by the adds and searches you see at the top of the page. This also resulted in the many problems you may have noticed as I got my blog set up over here.
Welcome back to Josh the Aspie’s Blog for the fifth installment in the ‘Wares series, where I explain the meaning behind different terms that include “ware” used to describe software and hardware.
Bloatware is software where more and more features have been added over time, causing the storage, memory, and processing requirements of simply loading the program to grow, and grow, and grow.
Synonyms include “featuritis”, “feature creep”, “software creep” and “creeping featuritis” among others.
I am currently doing a series of posts defining certain terms that are often used to describe certain kinds of software and hardware - collectively known as ‘ware when used in these terms.
Malware is short for “malicious software” and refers to any software that harms the performance, confidentiality, integrity, or accessibility of the machine on which it runs.
Simply put, a Virus is a piece of software which makes copies of itself and spreads itself across the internet. In some circles of the Information Security field, people insist that a virus also requires some level of user action in order to propagate, such as opening an e-mail or running a program.
This ability of a virus to copy it’s self is called self-replication.
A “darknet,” or “dark network” is a collection of computers that is in no way connected to the internet.
Two computers connected only to each-other form the simplest form of darknet. Another form would be one or more routers connected to each-other, with other computers connected to them, but no router or computer having a connection to the internet.
-Josh the Aspie
The hacker is a computer or electronics savvy person who uses their skill to test or alter the performance and function of a system.
Hackers may be those who build HAM radios from components, those who build custom systems from the board up, or people who improve their system performance by altering the software packages on them. Hackers may also test the security on an online system as a part of improving that system.
A Cracker is a computer savvy person who uses their skills to defeat the security on other systems. He does so to gain access to that computer system’s resources. The cracker then either damages these resources or exploits them.
Cracker exploits include stealing trade secrets from a company, stealing processor power to use on their system, and using the system to forward connections and actions in order to make their activates harder to track or make further attacks easier.