Forensic investigators searching Bradley Manning’s computers and removable media found a full log of the online chats Manning conducted with former hacker Adrian Lamo in which Manning described his alleged leaking of classified information, a government witness revealed during testimony on Saturday.

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Just lately CD’s and DVD’s have grow to be very low cost, both in respect to the disposable media and the burning hardware. Shopping for a CD or DVD burner has grow to be an reasonably priced solution to creating again-ups and quite a bit more.

CD media and burners have been round for a really long time. They have become very reasonably priced for many. CD’s have a capacity of 750mb and re-writable ones could be bought. CD burners have dropped dramatically in price. A lot so that they have change into an absolute standard for any new computer. Some computer systems have a number of CD burners to make burning multiple copies of information quite a bit easier.

DVD media and burners had been released a while after CD’s. They price more than CD’s but also offer higher features such as 4.7gb of storage space and compatibility with DVD players. DVD burners and media cost greater than CD’s however the worth hole is slowly closing. Most new computer could have DVD burners or on the very least DVD readers.

Using removable media for process equivalent to back-ups, films or music has turn into very talked-about with consumers. It’s easy, might be taken wherever and could be very affordable. In the case of again-ups it’s a viable solution to creating off-site again-ups of necessary information and documents.

These technologies have turn into part of everyones lives but may soon become obsolete. Within the near future different technology standards will likely be released. Sony is set to launch the blu-ray expertise that’s set to change the best way we change data. It is going to have at the very least double the storage space of DVD’s and products such because the Ps will incorporate this new standard.

The second is HD-DVD. This stands for Excessive Definition DVD. It will have an even sharper image than the present DVD’s and will also have a lot more storage space. Deciding when to embrace these new applied sciences will probably be up-to the consumers.

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Today’s episode of The 404 Podcast resurrects our love for action figures and other toys from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Jeff’s a little older than Wilson and me, but we can still bond over our mutual love for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures and our mutual hatred for picking up all those foam Nerd darts.

There’s also a lot to learn about each other based on our toys. For example, Wilson’s mom used to yell at him for unscrewing and tinkering with all his figures, which explains why he eventually grew up building his own computers.

Unfortunately, we’re too old to play with children’s toys now so we’ve all graduated to big-boy toys, and it’s with great sadness that we have to announce the death of the floppy disk. After three decades of production, Sony announced Friday that it would end all floppy-disk sales before the end of March 2011.

Many are unaware that Sony actually pioneered the first 3.5-inch floppy disk in 1981, although the 1.44MB disks were quickly rendered obsolete by other types of removable media like Zip disks, USB flash drives, and of course rewriteable CDs and DVDs. Stay tuned as we deliver a heartfelt “eugoogly” to the floppy disk–a close friend that saved kilobytes of data and served as the basis for way too many nerdy pickup lines.

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It’s no surprise that Internet privacy is a thing of the past, but a few Blippy users
are still finding that out the hard way. If you’ve never heard of the site before, Blippy is a new company that lets you share your online purchases with everyone on a social network. The service gleans financial data, including what you bought and where you got it, and lets you compare your purchases with others at a granular level, all with the hopes of saving you a few bucks on future purchases.

Unfortunately, five Blippy users found their credit card information published in Google’s search engine cache over the weekend. A rep from the company claims that a breach in two banks’ security systems caused the problem and they’ve asked Google to reindex the entire site to fix it, but none of us really understand the appeal of Blippy- feel free to chime in if you’re a user and let us know if you’ve stopped using the service after hearing about this breach in security.

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My only experience with a fast-spinning CD threatening to cause damage was when I repeatedly pushed the eject button of a (CD-only, this was at least 7 years ago) optical drive that seemed unwilling to spit out my media. Then suddenly for some reason, the tray extended, and before I knew it, the CD—still spinning at top speed—actually flew upwards! I swear this anecdote is true!

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In any case, a recent experiment theorizes that spinning a CD way faster than 56 times a second (or 56x, I assume) carries its own set of dangers. According to the experimenter, going above that speed magnifies the tiniest imperfection on a CD, potentially causing enough wobbling to damage the rotating mechanism. So of course he decided to test a CD with a Dremel, running it at over 35000 RPM. At those speeds, the edge of CD moves at nearly 800 kilometers per hour! (Or 792 kph, to be exact).

So what happened when a Dremel took a CD for a spin? Well, “the CD hummed and whined in a very menacing manner”. Scary, but it still took “quick jerk at the tool” to make the CD a projectile. Experimenting dude recounts what came next:

…the CD slid out of the holder and contacted the carpet whilst spinning at ungodly speeds. It peeled out a bit in front of me and proceeded to make its way to the door at a very high speed. On contacting the closed door, the CD did a most unexpected thing: it first bounced back a few inches, and then, when it hit the door again, it jumped straight up the door and struck the ceiling, exploding into thousands of fragments which rained down on the entire room. This first experiment was unfortunately not videoed, but it served to get everyone in the room to put glasses on and cower away behind pieces of furniture, whilst people in the hall corridor quickly made their way to my door to ask what was going on.

In other words, spin a CD-ROM really really quickly, launch into a hard surface, and you’ll get a pretty wicked disc that potentially creates deadly shrapnel. The experiment page (link below) contains multiple videos for download, if only to satisfy your visual curiosity and help you resist the temptation to try this at home.

PowerLabs High Speed CD-Rom Experiments

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Having a clean registry is one of the best things that you can do for your computer. A computer has many thousands of different files on it, however, without the registry files which are the core of the computer, nothing will work. Making sure your registry is clean of any useless files and corrupted files will help improve your computers performance.

There are many different programs on the market that promise to clean all the problems out of your computer. While many of them do a great job at removing large infections, they usually just scan the surface, leaving you at risk of a computer nightmare. Purchasing the right program to clean your registry does take a bit of research. For example, you will want to purchase a registry cleaning program that has multiple methods of backing up your registry. Having a backup of your registry is important in case your registry becomes corrupted. Some registry programs that are on the market will only tell you to backup your registry, and not give you any further instructions. In order to do a manual backup of the registry, you need to go into the windows start menu, then into the run command box, then type in “regedit”. Hit enter, go up to file, then select export. Make sure you put the registry backup on a removable media, such as a CD, DVD, or USB stick. This will allow you to restore the registry in case the computer or you damages it further along in the process.

Now that you have backed up your registry, you will need to continue with the registry scan. This process usually takes less than half an hour, and will tell you all of the infections, and problems that are in your registry. You should take a careful look at each of the objects that the registry cleaning program lists, and determine whether it is really an infection, or something that you know belongs in the registry. If your registry scan finds no objects in the first scan, make sure you have selected all the options for the scan. Some scans allow you to scan less than the entire registry, which can lead many people to believe their computer is fine, when it is really infected worse than ever. Once you have verified that you have found all the infections that are in the computer, remove them. Always restart your computer after you have removed problems, as the registry needs to do a clean boot to finish the removal of these problems.

Always backing up your registry before you begin any type of registry clean is the most important thing you can do. Selecting all the options for the scan of your registry the first time will save you plenty of extra time later on. Do not purchase a registry cleaning program just because it looks like it will work. You should purchase a registry cleaner that has been proven to remove every single problematic object.