1. One human cell contains 75MB genetic information.

2. One sperm contains a half of that; that is 37.5MB.

3. One ml of semen contains 100 million sperms.

4. In average, ejaculation lasts for 5 sec and contains 2.25 ml semen.

5. This means that the throughput of a man’s member is equal to (37.5MB x 100,000,000 x 2.25)/5 = 1 687 500 000 000 000 byte/second = 1,6875 Тerabyte/sec

This means that the female eggcell withstands this DDoS attack at 1,5 terabyte per second, and only lets through one(!) data package, thereby being the best freaking hardware firewall in the world!

The downside of it is that this only small data package that it lets through, hangs the system for the whole of 9 months!

via SNAPSHOTS.

Set Up Space-Saving, Permanent Gmail and Reader Tabs in Firefox.

Here is hoping that you can prevent your next computer disaster by reading the following article and implementing one of the programs before it happens. Good luck!

Five Best Free System Restore Tools.

Anyways I’m getting off course, being a stumbler and having tuned my preferences to serve my wildly varied tastes, I do tend to get a large number of ‘you may not have known about the features of’ articles. I pass most of them because being a power user, I know most of the hidden abilities of programs. This one however caught my eye because it turns Chrome into an even larger part of my day. Having just applied to get the CR-48 to give it a merciless beating from my usage habits, it also gave me many items that I will be needing. Read about it at Guiding Tech:

15 Killer Google Chrome Features You Might Not Know About.

As for getting back to posting regularly, expect a change from how I used to do it. I will still write my own posts, but expect more informational posts from other sites piped in.

Great! I thought. When I visited the creators website, I saw that they had other tracking software, one for movies in particular (All My Movies). Of course I wanted to see how well it worked, and wondered how they would pull off the same trick they did with the books. Well, thanks to sites like IMDB.com and Amazon, they have all the actors listed, screenshots, the movie synopsis, and way more that they simply pull into your program after you either enter the title, OR even better the barcode that gurantees you get the right information and don’t pull in the cartoon version of one of your favorite movies.

After playing around with movies that I actually own, I entered ones that I wanted when I realized they give you the option of creating a wishlist (finally!) of movies you want to get (or have people get you). They have multiple layouts you can use to view the information for each movie, and even better, if you like sharing what is in your collection with the rest of the world, they give you the ability to export the html code for the layout to simply paste into a webpage!

If you are more of a ‘don’t need the DVD’ type, the program can even search your hard drive for what you’ve copied off your legally bought DVDs (wink). I haven’t tried this portion of the program out yet since my laptop is the only place I do this at.

All I have to say is that if you finally want to get an idea of what you have and not have to thumb through hundreds of cases over and over when someone asks what you’ve got, check out All My Movies.

Movie Database Software

The machine’s storage component, which is made by Toshiba, is the highest capacity SSD available for notebooks, the company said.

By Antone Gonsalves
InformationWeek
June 18, 2008 08:35 AM

Toshiba on Tuesday introduced a 2.4-pound notebook that the vendor claims is the lightest laptop with a 128-GB solid-state drive and DVD drive.The Portege R500 series also is among the thinnest at 0.77 inches, Toshiba said. The device has a 12.1-inch, backlit light-emitting diode display for indoor and outdoor viewing and meets the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s highest standards for energy efficiency.

The machine’s storage component, which is made by Toshiba, is the highest capacity SSD available for notebooks, according to the company. Because SSDs have no moving parts, they tend to be faster and more durable than traditional hard-disk drives and use less energy. SSDs, however, are considerably more expensive.Toshiba this year started shipping its 128 GB SSD that first appeared in the company’s notebooks in Japan. The drive achieves the unusually high capacity through the use of multi-level cell NAND flash technology. Most SSDs today are single-level cell drives, which store 1 bit of data in each memory cell. MLC drives, on the other hand, store 3 or more bits in each cell. While MLC drives have slower transfer speeds and higher power consumption, they are also far less expensive to make.

In shrinking the size of the notebook, Toshiba said it used its proprietary “high-density mounting technology” process to enable dual-sided motherboard component mounting. The process results in a motherboard that’s a third the size of a mainstream 15.4-inch notebook’s motherboard, Toshiba said.

The notebook, which offers eight hours of battery life, has a base configuration that includes a 1.33 GHz Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Core 2 Duo U7700 low-voltage processor and the chipmaker’s Graphics Media Accelerator 950. In addition, the device has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless support. The Portege R500 series starts at $2,999.

Toshiba is not the only computer maker to offer lightweight notebooks. Other vendors include Apple, which offers the Macbook Air, and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), which recently introduced the Voodoo Envy.

Originally posted here

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Time Warner Cable Inc on Thursday will begin testing a service that charges consumers of high-speed Internet service based on their usage.

Broadband subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, will be charged $1 per gigabyte above monthly allowances, a company spokesman said.

The new policy is intended to address the top 5 percent of users, who have spent a “disproportionate” amount of time on Time Warner Cable’s network, a company spokesman said.

Such usage is “taxing the infrastructure,” the spokesman said. “In order to make investments in the infrastructure, we have to find the revenue to pay for it.”

Consumers in the test region will be offered several levels of service. A $29.95 per month plan for slower speeds of 768 kilobits per second and a 5 gigabyte limit would let users send and receive about 349,525 e-mails, play 170 hours of online games, or download 1,383 digital songs per month.

At the high end, a $54.90 monthly fee for a 15-megabit-per-second service and a 40 gigabyte monthly limit would allow subscribers to watch 124 hours of standard-definition videos or download 11,070 songs.

Some technology blogs have criticized the new pricing structure and usage limits, which they said would curtail interest in viewing videos online and enrage consumers who currently pay for unlimited service.

“Setting the caps is a very simple matter to change,” the spokesman said. “If usage patterns are such that we need to change those, we certainly can.”

(Reporting by Kenneth Li; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)

But now the all-powerful engine seems to have decided that’s an unnecessary nicety, and just silently corrects my search into what it thinks I want.

It happens to me constantly. Here’s an example: I was looking for information about San Antonio’s Tropicano hotel, which I misremembered had an aviary full of parrots (in fact, they’re beautiful toucans). Google knew I couldn’t possibly want to search for Tropicano, though — I must have meant Tropicana:

Prepending a + sign to each search word keeps Google from thinking it knows better than I do, but that’s an annoying workaround to have to do every time I search. It’d be nice if there was a preferences option at least: I mean what I say.

See Also:

• Google Says, ‘Sorry, You Search Like A Bot’
• April 1 Is The Annual Day Without Google

In my previous post, I went over how I created a weatherproof Wi-Fi camera rig. I decided to write a separate entry about how I got Wi-Fi signal to the camera during the construction process of my new home.

This project was installed about a year and a half ago and has been functioning since. There have been times I needed to reboot the repeater throughout the year, so it’s not like you can install it forget about it (unless you buy commercial products, not a Linksys). You also have to keep an eye out for growing shrubs and trees, since that will limit your signal over time.

First up, you’re going to have to have access to an internet connection (DSL/Cable). I had the luxury of having my parents near by, so I didn’t have to deal with any neighbors trying to secure an internet connection during construction (check your area and see if anyone has their wireless wide open… you might just want to repeat that signal).

I hope this post gives you some ideas as how to easily setup an access point outside your home. Maybe you have a park across the way that you’d love to work at, but can’t because you need to be connected… this project can surely make it possible.

Lets begin.

The Parts List:

• A HyperLink 8db Compact Omnidirectional 2.4ghz Antenna or a HyperLink 8db Patch Antenna
• 2 Linksys WAP11’s 802.11b Access Points (or any newer models that support repeater mode)
• 1- 10”x10”x4” PVC enclosure from Home Depot
• Misc PVC parts for Antenna Mast attachment, PVC Glues, Silicon, etc
• Double-sided foam tape
• A few power tools… drill, screw, etc.

If doing Power-Over-Ethernet (not repeater mode), you’ll also need:

• Cat5e Connection Box
• Volt Meter (to check cable resistance)
• Cat5e cable (outdoor direct burial type)
• New power supply to accommodate length of cat5e cable

You’ll need to find an enclosure that will fit your access point. Most of the time, the case is bigger than the actual electronics inside… so if you are having trouble finding a case, you can always dismantle the access point/repeater, however, this will void your warranty. For my WAP11, I took some measurements and headed to my local Home Depot. I found they had a 10”x10”x4” PVC box that looked perfect for this project.

I wanted the status LEDs to show thru the bottom of the enclosure so I had to remove the front of the WAP11. The photos above show how I did this. I took the front part and stacked it on the back of the WAP11. This gave me some support and the height was perfectly in the middle. I marked and drilled the 3 LED holes. I filled them up with clear silicon so the LED lights could still shine thru. I also attached some double-sided foam tape so I could secure it in the enclosure.

In the photo on the right, you can see the complete naked enclosure. My first attempt was to have a full outdoor Access Point. To do this, you need a wired ethernet connection and power. So I took the PoE (Power over Ethernet) route. That worked for about a year, but, because I didn’t used outdoor grade cat5e cable when I buried it, one day it suddenly stopped working. I think a rat ate it or it just corroded. If you are planning on doing PoE, then you’ll want to follow the detailed how-to instructions provided on the NTCwireless site and BE SURE TO USE outdoor rated Cat5e cable!! If you don’t want to deal with volt meters and ohm’s law, the check out Hyperlink’s PoE solution.

The 8db compact Hyperlink omnidirectional antenna I used has a mast attachment, so I bought a 2” PVC pipe and cap and attached the antenna to that. I only attached one external antenna, so I’m not doing a true diversity system like the Linksys originally had. You can turn off the other antenna or keep it on… your tests may yield different results. Omnidirectional is great if you want to spread the 8db signal over 360 degrees. Sometimes you want to use a directional antenna. Let’s say the park you want to check email at is right across the street, and the the picnic table 30 degrees to the right. You could use a patch antenna and blanket just that area with a full 8db. So instead of an 8db (or whatever) omnidirectional antenna, which spreads that 8db over 360 degrees, you can give a 30 degree spread more of the 8db signal.

Next, I attached all the cables to the WAP11 and powered it up. Again, if you are setting your system up as just a repeater, then all you need is power. If you are setting it up as an outdoor access point, then you’ll need to provide power and ethernet. Having done both, I like the repeater method. It’s easier than running a cable… but you spend more because you need another WAP11 to act as the main access point.

After I mounted everything inside, I found an area I thought would work the best and did all the network setups. Then I ran some tests. Depending on tree coverage and any structures, there is pretty good coverage… it can only get better with more access points and/or bigger antennas. Flat, clear areas do better than hilly, treed areas (trees suck up the signal and metal structures reflect) For now, the coverage is pretty much want I need… but I’m thinking about putting a Wi-Fi Amplifier on the repeaters. That should really light up the block… and maybe even a visit from the FCC!

Below is an “artists rendering” of my signal spread. My terrain is a bit hilly, so I don’t get the same coverage as if I were on flat lands.

Total cost? Under $500.