ShareBy Jimmy Daniels of Windows Tips
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
“Secure” card maker HID Corp. is complaining and making legal threats about a presentation at this week’s Black Hat Federal security conference, saying that it could make it easy to clone many proximity door access cards. The presentation is going to address security issues with RFID proximity cards [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Hmmm … maybe I should continue to put off installing Vista. I was planning on doing it this weekend … it seems that Microsoft freely admits there’s a bug (fortunately, already patched by a “recommended” update) which has forced (or is forcing) users who already activated their Vista install to [...]

ShareBy Martin Regtien
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

You might remember the very innovative Canovo Dual-TouchScreen Tablet/Notebook that was reported on recently.
Innovative because the keyboard has been replaced by another touchscreen! There are some obvious great advantages to this (and some minor problems as well). Think of truly being able to customise your keyboard for every task and having [...]

ShareBy Chief Gizmateer
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into Wii gaming, the PC Magazine editors have named the top 10 Wii-related accidents to date and the winners are:

Crack in television
Hole in window
Wiimote-shaped dent in wall
Shattered 4-inch PDA screen
Severed blad from ceiling fan
Broken chair from Zelda fishing
Hole in mother-in-law’s china [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Well, that was quick. Right after (OK, hours after) I wrote my last post, I get a call from Dell. And here, I have to applaud them. I promised the guy I wouldn’t post his name, cuz then he’d get tons of calls, but he is a Dell [...]

ShareBy Kyle Reasons
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Mac OS X
General

cat

Displays the contents of a file to the screen

cd

Changes to another directory

chgrp

Changes the group associated with one or more files to a different group

chmod

Controls file security

chown

Changes file ownership

chsh

Sets your login shell

cmp

Used to compare two files

cp

Copies a file to another directory

df

Shows a report of how the disk space is [...]

ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
As I previously wrote, I could not even START upgrading to Vista, because of a missing wi-fi driver. You may also recall that since I wanted to try Vista ASAP (call me anxious), I opted to buy the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Card, which has a driver on Dell’s website. [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
General

at

Runs a command or script at a given time

atq

Shows the jobs that are scheduled to run

atrm

Used to remove a job that is scheduled to run

batch

Runs a command or script and is really a subset of the at command that takes you to the at>prompt if you type only batch

cat

Displays the [...]