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Wednesday’s Wild World of Tech

Today in History: Congress passed the Federal Radio Act, which President Coolidge signed on February 23, 1927. The act created a new regulatory body, the Federal Radio Commission, which wrote rules to resolve the interference problem -- forcing hundreds of stations off the air as a result. This led some critics to worry that the commission could potentially violate the broadcasters' right to free speech.

* Will we ever see the end of the Cell Phone security articles? I think NOT. If you have a cell phone that is Bluetooth enabled and running on the Symbian OS you might be at risk. It seems that some months after a conceptual virus was created it has sprees like wildfire. If you come within 100 yards of an infected phone you too could catch the virus, find out more here.

* Well maybe you can help secure that new network with a secure router from HP. Yes I said HP; it seems that they are coming back into the enterprise router market. Would you buy one, read more here.

* Ready or not here it comes! It seems that April 12th is the new doom day. Well kind of, according to an article posted at Neowin, Microsoft plans to push Windows Service Pack Two to you wither you want it or not. For the full scoop read the article here.

* Easier Microsoft Updates are coming to a Microsoft server near you soon. Microsoft will start beta testing its new all-in-one updates services in Mid-March. The goal is to be able to update all of your Microsoft products in one easy place, a one stop shop for updates. Read more here.

* It seems that Intel has finally caught up with AMD in the 64 bit processor race. Does that really matter, I mean we don’t have any production grade 64-bit operating systems. Read the full article here.

* TiVo which makes digital video recorders that pause and replay live television said the number of its subscribers surpassed 3 million. Read the full article here.

Tuesday’s Tech Tidbits

Today in History: This date marks an important anniversary in the history of chemistry: the first time an organic compound was synthesized in a lab.

* Cell Phone Security? It seems that a celebrity’s cell phone has been hacked. Are we at a point that we need to worry about cell phone security now? Read the full story here.

* Security Story Number Two: A major type of encryption seems to have been broken by Chinese researchers. The algorithm known as SHA-1 is used by virtually everything, most types of program also can use other types of security algorithms as well. It a well known fact that this could happen, but no o­ne expected it to happen this soon. If you want to read all of the fact, you can here.

* It seems that Apple is up to something. A group of consumers and independent retailers are suing Apple for unfair business practices, selling old part as new o­nes and more. Is there any truth to this, find out for your self here?

* Is the Google Toolbar controlling your computer? That seems to be a good question. Experts allege that Google toolbar directs you to certain websites when you click o­n certain types of links. To find out if this is just a bunch of hoopla read more here.

* This past Friday at a New York auction house a auction of Technology relics took place. Many different things that from Technology past were sold, from and early version of a portable “floppy” type disk, well if you can call it, it weighed 5.5 pounds. For the full story go here.

* A new version of Internet Explorer is currently in the works at Microsoft. The downside to the new version of IE is that it will o­nly work with Windows XP & 2000. The new version of IE boosts phishing protection. If you would like to read more you can, it directory from o­ne of the IE developers mouths. Read More

Online Grades

"Online Grades is based on the project, BASMATI, It has all of the same base features plus many new features. OG is a web based grade posting system, which allows teachers to post Grades from Easy Grade Pro, then allows parents/students to view grade in an easy and secure online format."

"I am proud to announce that Online Grades had released the initial version of Online Grades and the documentation to go with it. You can easily have it up and running within a couple of days; so why not download today and better enable communications with everyone in a very use to use format."

Those of you who haven’t seen the New version of Online Grades, I would highly recommend that you check it out. The demo is available at http://www.OnlineGrades.org/demo_info. For more information you can visit the project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/onlinegrades or the project home page at http://www.OnlineGrades.org.

Enjoy,
Beau Huber
HUBERHOME

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Have a happy and safe 2005!

--Beau

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to All!

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GMail

I have had my gmail (http://gmail.google.com) account for about 10 days now and I will have to say it works really well and fast.

DON'T EMAIL ME AND ASK ME FOR AN ACCOUNT IT WON'T HAPPEN

I may give out invites in the feature, I'm not sure.

Iowa State Fair 2004

If you would like to see the pictures I took while I was at the Iowa State Fair.

The pictures are now in the gallery.

Summer Time

HUBERHOME may not be updated regularly now that it’s summer time. With work and vacation the main part of the website will not be kept up-to-date. I will try and post some Technology News that I find of interest in this section, if it hasn’t been updated please check here.

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Beau

This is it. Its over!

Well I have finally made it to the end of my High School career. I am graduating o­n May 23rd, 2004 at 2:00 pm, in the Wilton High School Gymnasium. It seems like just yesterday that we just stared school and now it is over. Wow! I would just like to wish all of my friends the best of luck through there journey in life, may all of your days be good. Its been fun.

WiltonCSD.org
WiltonIowa.org
huber-home.org

Also the week marks the end of TechTV’s Call for Help. With TechTv I would not be as knowledge with technology and the internet. So to them I say goodbye and may we meet again. Thanks for being there for the past six year and may all of your days be just as good as mine. Thanks to Leo and all of the gang for the hard work over these past six years.

TechTV.com

Call for Help (pdf version)

Call for Help’s Last Article (pdf version)

Leoville.com

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS MADE THIS PART OF MY LIFE’S JOURNEY MEMORABLE AND TO THOSE WHOM I SHALL NEVER FORGET!

Best Of Luck Everyone

Beau A. Huber
Wilton High School Class of 2004

Its over and we have made it this far, now to the journey of the rest of our lives.