Tuesday, December 17, 2013

I need to upgrade to an unlimited plan

Professor Messer | Dec 06, 2013 | Comments 0



A) SSID broadcast suppression

B) Static IP addressing

C) MAC filtering

D) Modification of the default access point username and password

E) Disable everyone’s texting plan

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Tags: access • wireless


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You’ll give it a bad idea

Professor Messer | Dec 13, 2013 | Comments 0



Where would you use a SCSI terminator?

A) At the beginning of a SCSI bus

B) Connected to every SCSI device

C) At the end of a SCSI bus

D) Terminators are no longer required on a SCSI bus

E) Don’t say “terminate” when you’re near my hard drive

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Tags: scsi • terminator


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Air Supply over a tiny speaker

Professor Messer | Dec 16, 2013 | Comments 0



What happens if the failed passcode lock attempt security option is activated in Android OS?

A) The device erases itself after 10 failed attempts

B) The passcode will randomly change after every 10 attempts

C) The device locks and requires a Google login

D) An email will be sent to the device owner after 10 failed attempts

E) The phone continuously plays an annoying ring tone

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Tags: passcode • security


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There’s only 224 unread left to answer

Professor Messer | Dec 12, 2013 | Comments 0



Which of these mobile device settings can be used to configure inbound email messages? Pick two.

A) IMAP

B) SMTP

C) MIME

D) POP

E) I’m forwarding all of my email messages to you

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Tags: email • mobile


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Come Visit Beautiful Melmac

Professor Messer | Dec 17, 2013 | Comments 0



You have two drives that you would like to configure into the most redundant configuration possible. Which of these RAID types should you configure?

A) RAID 0

B) RAID 1

C) RAID 5

D) RAID 1+0

E) I don’t want to ever lose those important episodes of Alf

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Google buys military robot-maker

16 December 2013 Last updated at 04:22 GMT Robotics expert Noel Sharkey said Google's acquisition of Boston Dynamics, was "a big surprise"

Google has acquired the engineering company that developed Cheetah, the world's fastest-running robot and other animalistic mobile research machines.

Boston Dynamics, which contracts for the US military, is the eighth robotics company snapped up by Google this year.

Both the price and size of the project, which is led by former Android boss Andy Rubin, are being kept under wraps.

However, analysts say the purchases signal a rising interest in robotics use by consumer internet companies.

Online shopping portal Amazon, for example, recently announced plans to deploy a fleet of delivery drones.

The firm's BigDog robot can throw breeze blocks

In a statement posted on the Google Plus service, Chief Executive Larry Page said:

"I am excited about Andy Rubin's next project. His last big bet, Android, started off as a crazy idea that ended up putting a supercomputer in hundreds of millions of pockets. It is still very early days for this, but I can't wait to see the progress."

Robot Machines

Boston Dynamics, which does not sell robots commercially, was founded in 1992 by a former professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Cheetah Robot developed by Boston Dynamics breaks the speed record

It consulted for Japanese electronics giant Sony on consumer applications such as Aibo, a robot dog.

But it mostly develops mobile and off-road robotics technology, funded by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa.

Google has said it would honour the existing military contracts with Darpa.

Boston Dynamics road-tests its Atlas robot on rough terrain

Boston Dynamics' videos of its walking robots have garnered millions of views online.

One of them, called BigDog, is remarkably agile for a machine and is able to move over rough terrain such as snow and ice.

Another, of a four-legged robot named WildCat, shows the noisy machine galloping down a car park at high speed and pivoting quickly on the spot.

Boston Dynamics' WildCat robot is put through its paces


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