Data breach notifications have become an all-too-regular exercise in crisis communications that increasingly try to deflect blame, obfuscate important details and omit important facts. The next time you get a data breach notification, read between the lines. For instructions how to do that read How to decode a data breach notice article at https://tcrn.ch/2WMqUjm. Know →
One way to test electrolytic capacitors is to measure their capacitance. It does not tell the whole story of capacitor condition. Another usually more useful way to measure electrolytic capacitor condition is to use an ESR meter. Here is ESR meter I built years ago based on instructions from http://ludens.cl/Electron/esr/esr.html but I built the transformer →
Halloween is coming soon and you might think you need some scary/funny decoration for it. Here are some ideas. The following examples seem to be built with idea “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.” Enter Sandman (Metallica) 2020 Halloween Light Show “Chop Suey” – System of a Down 2019 Halloween Light Show This is →
Bombshell data breach ransom incident exploded in Finland. Psychotherapy center Vastaamo patient records were breached and ransom demands for not publishing data was sent to both company and patients. Patient data of 300 were already published on-line. Vastaamo, which has branches throughout the Nordic country of 5.5 million and operates as a sub-contractor for Finland’s →
The House of the Rising Sun cover by The Floppotron, computer hardware orchestra (arrangemant of The Animals). John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads cover by The Floppotron, computer hardware orchestra →
DELTACO USB3-GIGA5 is a USB 3.0 network adapter with internal flash memory, Gigabit, 1xRJ45, 1xUSB3.0 Type A ha, black. It is designed to allow you to connect a network cable to your device that has USB connector but lacks built-in network card with RJ45 jack. The installation is plug and play in Windows 7 and →
A Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) is an extremely useful tool for radio hobbyists as it allows you to measure and tune antennas and filters, as well as measure cables. The most affordable such instrument for some time has been NanoVNA. NanoVNA V2 Vector Network Analyzer can be viewed as next updated version of NanoVNA. The →
Decades before Twitter threads, Reddit forums, or Facebook groups, there was Usenet: an early-internet, pre-Web discussion system where one could start and join conversations much like today’s message boards. It was launched in 1980. On Usenet, people talked about everything. And there were many interesting discussions and technical details posted. Old 80s Usenet content published →
The IT systems that governments and businesses depend on are often decades old and prone to failure. Why do they cost trillions to maintain but are so hard to modernize? Water treatment plants, telephone exchanges, power grids, and air traffic control are just a few of the systems controlled by antiquated code. Does everybody agree →
Saw in Facebook discussionhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/electronichobycircuits/permalink/3657982357559780/ https://www.facebook.com/438304376511718/posts/1304575383217942/ Another meter is fried again today!!! I have six meters blown in 2 years, while reading high voltage AC. I guess I will find a better alternative for such reading. Is there a way of fixing spoilt meters!?. We are talking about this kind of DT830 type multimeters: My answer: →