Author: Mike Moffit
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High Voltage Capacity
p{text-align: center;}. !http://blog.smalldog.com/images/4948.png! I’m going to date myself a little bit here, but it’s for a good cause, so I think it’s ok. When I was a kid (at least until the early 2000s) digital cameras still weren’t very prolific. Most of the cameras I had used 35mm film though my parents did give me…
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Tech Support Scams
It is important to stay aware of common ways to get scammed on the Internet. Some of the most common scams nowadays are Google advertisements for fake tech support. Scammers use fake advertisements to lure victims who are less tech-savvy in order to convince them that there are non-existent “errors” or “viruses” on their computer,…
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_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ For all of our faithful readers I have some bittersweet news to share: This will be my last issue of Tech Tails. I have accepted an IT position at “*SunCommon,*”:http://suncommon.com/vt/ a Vermont-based company providing solar power to homes and businesses. Like Small Dog Electronics, this company is committed to the “*triple bottom…
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Connor McGinnis
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Hobbies/Interests: jamming, reading, hiking, exploring, traveling, gigging, audio, discovering new artists, Dungeons and Dragons on the weekends Favorite Books: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, American Gods, LotR, Hells Angels, The Art of War, The Chomsky Reader, Naked Lunch Favorite Bands: In no particular order- The Allman Brothers Band, Black Sabbath, The White Stripes, Sleep,…
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Blizzards and Solar Storms
p{text-align: center;}. !http://blog.smalldog.com/images/5011.jpg! When I mentioned cosmic rays in my article last week, I actually had to restrain myself from taking a big tangent to talk about the effects of stronger rays on earth. These stronger rays are often referred to as “solar storms” or the more accurately, “coronal mass ejections”. These ejections are essentially…
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All Natural, Organic Radition
You can’t buy it at a farmer’s market, but it’s all around us. Last week I discussed I discussed the electromagnetic radiation spectrum in a fairly broad, general sense (it’s a big spectrum). Early on, I made a passing reference to natural forms of electromagnetic radiation, especially natural radio waves, x-rays and gamma rays. As…