Brushless Motor System

Brushless Motor System: “A Simply Super System

The Super Sport Brushless Motor System is the first in a series of brushless motor systems from Novak Electronics. The system includes the SS5800, a mild-modified, sensor-based, brushless motor–and a compact multi-profile speed control (Super Sport ESC #3205). Designed by Novak specifically for R/C car applications, the brushless motor and speed control easily fits in popular 1/10 scale R/C cars. We think you’ll agree that this system is super for several reasons. Topping the list of reasons for using this system is that it will provide approximately 20% longer run times and higher performance than similar brushed motor systems–with virtually no maintenance thanks to no brushes, brush springs, or commutator to true or wear out. Also, the completely enclosed motor is protected from dirt and other elements harmful to it. The Super Sport speed control is filled with Novak’s trademark features, including a few industry firsts: a Transmitter Check Mode, and Locked Rotor Detection Circuitry, which prevents motor, battery, and ESC damage. The speed control also features multiple factory-set throttle programs.”

Spyware infiltrates blogs | CNET News.com

Spyware infiltrates blogs | CNET News.com: “Hackers are using blogs to infect computers with spyware, exposing serious security flaws in self-publishing tools used by millions of people on the Web.

The problem involves the use of JavaScript and ActiveX, two common methods used to launch programs on a Web page. Security experts said malicious programmers can use JavaScript and ActiveX to automatically deliver spyware from a blog to people who visit the site with a vulnerable Web browser.”

IF MICROSOFT INVENTED BOOKS

1. Before you can open the cover of your new book, you must obtain a book activation code by phoning Microsoft.

2. Sorry, only one person may ever read your book.

3. It’s full of spelling mistakes and typos.

4. When you’re reading your book, the type can mysteriously disappear.

5. Libraries, which are for sharing books, are illegal.

6. You must acknowledge you have read and understood the Book License Agreement Hype (BLAH) before you can read your book.

7. Microsoft has the right to enter your premises to conduct book inspections to make sure your book is being read in accordance with the BLAH.

8. The Book Users’ Group General Alliance (BUGGA) calculates that the annual loss of revenues to Microsoft arising from BLAH violations in 2001 was $10.97 billion.

9. There are two versions of your book – the Standard” and the “Pro” versions. In the standard version, those pages containing the most useful information have been stuck together.

10. Confidential information is inexplicably in bigger type that can be easily read by anyone glancing over your shoulder.

Is the Half-Life 2 EULA illegal?

Is the Half-Life 2 EULA illegal?:
Steam-powered investigation rolls on

By Wil Harris: Sunday 06 February 2005, 11:00

WE REPORTED last week on the problems that many people are having connecting to the Steam servers to play Half-Life 2. We had lots of people emailing the INQ to say that you could always use offline mode to play without a net connection, but these people seem oblivious to reports online that many people are unable to get this mode to function properly.

More interesting, perhaps, are the legal agreements that surround a purchase of Half-Life 2. One is that no mention of Steam is on the HL2 box or in the End User License Agreement, yet it is required to play. The second is that where a gamer buys a copy of the game for which the CDKey has already been hacked, he will have to wait up to two weeks to get a replacement from Sierra/Vivendi, since shops will generally not take back opened software. The third is that no copy of the game can be sold without paying Valve a $10 fee to transfer the CD-Key to another Steam account.”

“What OS is right for me?”

‘Which OS is right for me?’ – My thoughts to that question

Many times throughout my years of learning about PC’s, I find that at least once every few months someone asks me ‘What Operating System is the best?’ or ‘What Operating System is better/more secure/less secure/faster/cooler/easier to install or hack with’. To each I’ve given the same answer and thoughts that I shall share here, as I merely feel it is time to do so. Do not expect a list of Operating Systems, nor expect biased opinions in this post. I want to offer insight to one of the most valuable pieces of wisdom one can have.

The answer to the question of ‘What Operating System is the best?’ is quite simple:

Each and every Operating System is capable of performing and responding just as well as the next.

That’s correct.
Now, set aside differences, stereotypes, and your past knowledge for a moment please, and allow me to share my thoughts with you.
Here is a quote I want you to never forget, something that I have never forgotten once my mentor taught me:
The OS is only as good as the Admin, and the OS can never make up for a bad admin.
A veteran of a Windows Operating System can lock up any Windows distribution in a heartbeat, more secure than an SElinux kernel on OpenBSD running tripwire, by using their knowledge and experience of Windows. A newbie of OpenBSD, however, can make it as insecure as an unfirewalled, unupdated, Windows 95 distribution.
Think about this for a second, if you will for me. An Operating System can have all sorts of default safeguards and built in security functions, plus unlimited tools at the admins disposal to secure it with. But, if the admin is not familiar with that Operating System, whichever one he is using, then it is all useless to him.