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I need advice on inexpensive ways to soup up my iMac G3?

I want to give it max. RAM (512 MB) and a bigger HD but I want to know how I can get that stuff the cheapest and whether or not I can install that stuff myself. Will I need special tools or anything like that? I have a Torx screwdriver for the screws on the case of my old Mac Plus but I don't know if the iMacs still use those. The processor is a 350 mHz G3 and its the slot loading type of iMac. Would my mods be stymied by the 350 Mhz processor?

hey dude, i couldn't be bothered to copy all the stuff from these websites i found regarding your problem, so heres the websites. theres pics and bullet points on how to do what you gotta do.
hope you do alright.

http://www.macworld.com/2001/10/bc/howtoimac/

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=95144

http://www.apple.com/support/imac/g3/

oh yeah, you could get cheap parts from eBay or even Amazon if you wanted. for cheap hard drives, just type it into gopogle and you'll get a whole bunch of shop. I got an 80Gb hard drive for £40, and that was over 18 months ago...they've gotten much cheaper since then.

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Screwdriver Set

where can i get a craft set for my son?

my son got a tool set for xmas. hes 9yrs year old. i want to buy something he can make using these tools eg screwdriver, hammer. when ever i find something its made using clue.

it all depends on where you live. there are different kinds of stores. you might want to go online and research or call the stores to see if they have anything. i really like hobby lobby, or Michael's.

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Bought an Auto Fuse Tester.. like a screwdriver, with a wire and crocodile clip, but how do you use it?

There were no instructions on how to use it.. nothing on the box or inside.

It is like a screwdriver but has a pointy tip. There is a bit at the top for a plug-in cable which has a crocodile clip on it.

Thanks if you can offer an answer.

What you have is called a circuit tester. Here is how you would use it to test your fuses. Take the clip part at the end of the wire and clip it to something metal on the main part of your car. Usually the door hinge works good, make sure you grind it in enough so the metal clip will touch metal and not just paint. Turn your key on, then use the point on the fuses. If you look close on your fuses you might see two little holes, poke your tester in each of the holes, it should light up on both. If the fuse does not have a hole, then slide the tester along the side of the fuse until you can touch both prongs that stick out of the fuse. If the light only comes on on one side, then that fuse is blown.

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Let's do our bit in reducing Global Warming!!

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Global warming is one of the most burning issues today. It is not a new term for anyone of us. In simple words, global warming means increase in average air and ocean`s temperature of Earth that poses dangerous impact on environment. Reports indicate that temperature of Earth.s surface has risen by .4 degrees Celsius in last 25 year. Reasons for this are burning of fossil fuels that emit gases, forest fire etc. But one of the main reasons for this is Human being. We are posing a great threat to our earth without even thinking twice about it. It is worse than destructing our own house with own hands.

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Use energy efficient products Energy efficient bulbs and appliances not only save money, but also help in reducing consumption of electricity. By picking appliances with Energy Star label, we can save a lot of energy. Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs which are safe for environment and will cut down electricity bill as well.

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What is the economic impact of unemployment?

also, i need social and political impacts, but mainly just the economic bit

Economic - increased public spending on unemployment benefits and less tax revenue from private income
Social- depression, increased health care costs, shorter life spans, lower educational attainment in lower income families
Political - tendency to move to left wing politics with greater welfare provision, political pressure for job creation-often by public spending projects.

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97 Chevy Express Van, Use a torx to remove the brake calipers?

I think it's a Torx bit that removes the two caliper bolts but since it's located on the back side of the caliper with a rubber boot around it I can't be sure. If so, what size Torx? If not, what do I use then?
Okay, shortly after I wrote the question, I remembered what I needed from the last time. It is an allen wrench -- I got one that uses a ratchet to drive it. But the guy that thought it was a t55 torx did give a good suggestion (although too late) about just loosening the bottom bolt and pivoting the caliper up. I will remember that for next time.... And, please, enough with the stupid answers on here like, "call a parts store and ask them" or "buy the repair manual" I KNOW I can do that, but I chose to aske the question HERE. If you don't know the answer, don't bother with telling me where else I can find the answer, I'll wait till someone with some knowlege responds here.

not likely. chevy has used a 1/4 allen wrench since the earth started cooling

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Hex Bit

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Hex editing problem for programing?

I am having a bit of a problem, i understand 00-FF type of editing for hex. i dont however understand something like 0x54f8, could someone tell me what this means please, i am dumb founded

0x is used to signify that the value is hexidecimal rather than decimal. 0x54F8 is just hex still. This time, instead of the int8s you're familiar with, it's an int16 (16 bit value). The concept here is, the least significant byte is how you already recognise it, (F8 = 248), and the most significant byte is 0x54 = 84. You count these bytes in base 256, similar to any other counting system, the more significant byte is raised to the power of the base. In this case, the actual decimal value of 0x54F8 can be calculated as ((256^1 * 84) + (256^0 * 254)). The maxmum value that can be held in an int16 is 0xFFFF, which is decimal 65535.

The concept can be extended to int32 and int64 values, giving values like 0xFFFFFFFF (4294967295) etc.

A big thing to look out for when you understood the above though, is that the notation of attaching 0x to the value is used with Big-endian values. (The most significant value comes first). Our natural counting systems are big endian (ie, 1000 is more significant than 100, so the thousands digit comes first). 0xHEX is always big endian.

The problem is with many processors, data is stored as little endian (least significant byte first). When you view a value like 0x54F8 in a hex editor, it may appear to be "F8 54". To iterate further, an int32 value like 0x56827 would be seen as "27 68 05 00" in a hex editor on little endian platforms.

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Ratchet Bit

Changing a Car's Starter

Car starter is a mechanical key to start the car and therefore considered to be the essential part of any vehicle. If starter fails to work you cannot start your vehicle. When you try to start the car, a charge is sent to the starter from battery and then to the alternator but if you are having trouble while starting your car that means starter is not performing its task. So, it is time to replace or change the starter. To change the starter is not that simple but with the help of given directions you can change it quite easily:

Items Required

The things you are required to change the starter are:

-    Car Starter
-    Duct tape
-    Tools
-    Ratchet set
-    Wrenches
-    Car jack
-    Flood light
-    Marker (for labeling the cables)

Directions to Follow

Prepare

Apply the park brakes and place wedge or logs behind the rear tires. Place the jack on a specified place on the front below of the vehicle and lifts the car up. Detach the negative terminal cable from the battery carefully. While doing this task try to avoid any electrical contacts.

Locate the starter

Location of starter varies according to vehicle. Locate the start position in your vehicle. It may be located on the driver's side. It is an eight inch long tube with five to six inch in diameter with two electrical and one fixed connection.

Detach the Connections

Now is time to remove the connections. You can remove the electrical connections with the help of hand by pulling them gently but for mounting connection you need an appropriate wrench or ratchet. Remove the electrical connections and mark the cables with indication labels; which help you to connect the cables with right connectors later. Now take a wrench or ratchet and remove the mounting connection. It is bit hard to unfasten this connection sometimes, be sure not to apply too much force lest you would damage it.  

Once you have done, take the old starter out.
Installation (New Starter)

Once you have done with removing the old damage starter, take a new starter and replace it. Make sure that you have installed the new starter at right place and correctly. Connect all the electrical cables in perfect order to avoid any major damage to your engine. Fix the mounting connection back with the help of wrench.

Reconnect the negative terminal cable to negative connector of the battery.

Verification

In the end recheck all the connections once again and when you are sure that everything is in its perfect place, try to start the engine. The smooth starting of the engine will verify the worth of your work.

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You might also want to learn how to remove a bumper and also how to replace a starter

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How Long Will The PSP 3000 LE Ratchet & Clank Bundle Be Around?

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Hi, I was wondering if anybody knew how long this limited edition PSP 3000 bundle pack would be avaliable in at least retail stores? I understand that the Nintendo DS Zelda Edition (Gold with the Hyrule on the cover) was around during the holiday times for a little bit. I just wanted to know how long this will be around. I work at wal-mart and would get 10% off (employee discount) if I get this during the holiday times. Thanks!

Probably for a while I mean its not limited editition I think theyll at least have it until the holiday season

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Socket Bit

XFX nForce 780S GeForce 8200 Socket AM2+ Motherboard has it 64 bit in?

Yes, the XFX nForce 780S will support 64 bit processors, or operating systems, or anything else that is 64 bit. I'm hoping that is what you were asking. If not, contact me through my profile and I can try to answer your question better.
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Security Screwdriver

Is your data at risk?: Why physical security is insufficient for laptop computers

Is your data at risk?:

Why physical security is insufficient for laptop

computers

Evaluating the various data security options to protect your PCs can be challenging. This

paper examines the options, discusses why passwords alone are not sufficient and makes

the case for strong data encryption.

Is your data at risk?: Why physical security is

insufficient for laptop computers

New frontiers in computer security

The meaning of computer security continues to evolve. Physical security used to be the

main concern. Through the 1980s, expensive mainframe computers were locked in special

climate-controlled rooms within secure buildings.

Security costs, when they were considered at all, constituted a very small percentage of the

overall system costs. Today, such systems are called “server systems”; and although they are

important in their own right, they make up a small percentage of all computer shipments each

year. According to market researcher Gartner, 2.3 million server systems shipped worldwide in the

third quarter of 2008, compared to 80.6 million PCs that shipped in the same period.

The widespread use of PCs creates much greater vulnerability compared to yesterday’s mainframe

computers. Although desktop PCs are arguably less secure than centralized servers, such systems

probably have physical security identical to that of a company’s other on-premises assets. The

least secure computers are those that are mobile.

According to the Gartner estimate for 2008, worldwide mobile PC growth is 25% versus 1.2%

for desktops. According to its forecast, 293 million PCs would be shipped in 2008.

Whether you prefer the term “mobile PC,” “laptop” or “notebook,” the vulnerable systems

are those taken off-premises. In spite of employee diligence, mobile PCs do get lost and stolen. Not

convinced? Take a look at www.privacyrights.org, a website listing breaches in data security that

involve personally identifiable information (PII).

More than half of the states in the United States require disclosure of such breaches. Don’t let

your company’s name get added to this list; good solutions are available.

Attacks on laptop data security

To a casual observer, a laptop computer seems secure. To use a computer system, users must type

credentials into a window. If users do not provide the correct username and password, they cannot

access the system. Like someone who misplaces the keys to a car, someone who forgets a computer

password is locked out. Without the proper credentials, access is blocked. Or is it?

Passwords alone do not protect data The login process prevents unauthorized users

from running software. But a password does not, by itself, make the data on hard drives secure. A

user without a correct username and password cannot use the services of the operating system

as installed and configured on that particular hard drive. However, a tech-savvy person without the

appropriate credentials can still attack a computer.

There are three possible attack strategies:

•• Alternative boot device

•• Alternative boot device + alternative boot

program

•• Moving a hard drive to an alternative computer

system

Attack #1: Alternative boot device

One type of attack involves using an alternative boot device instead of the hard drive. Every

computer system supports this option. Over many years and many versions, the Microsoft Windows

setup disks have been distributed on bootable CD-ROM or DVD discs. A simple way to access a

system’s data is to boot to a Windows setup disk and install a new copy of the operating system.

This approach makes available any data that resides on a hard drive.

Attack #2: Alternative boot device + alternative boot program

A second attack combines the first attack with special boot programs. For example, many IT

professionals use bootable CD-ROMs with software like BartPE (Bart’s Preinstalled Environment) as an aid in fixing systems with boot problems.

Aside from legitimate uses, unauthorized persons can use this type of tool to mount an attack.

In addition to accessing normal user data files, such tools allow access to operating system files that are not available when the operating system is running. Of particular interest is the SecurityAccounts Manager (SAM) database, an encrypted

file with password hashes. Although this is an encrypted file, techniques are widely available to decrypt the SAM and read password hashes. While different from plain-text passwords, a password hash is the result produced when a password is run through a security algorithm. By replacing a password hash for an existing account—maybe one with administrator privileges—a data thief can boot and run the original operating system and any installed software.

Guarding Against Attacks #1 and #2

Support for alternative boot devices enables operating system installation. After the OS has

been installed, the use of alternative boot devices can be disabled in the basic input/output system (BIOS). In the same way that you can lock

the front door of your house, you can lock out alternative boot devices with the proper BIOS settings. To keep those settings in place, you also

need to enable password protection on the BIOS itself. A third step, locking the computer’s case, prevents a reset of the BIOS and failure of the

above measures.

Attack #3: Moving a hard drive to an alternative computer system

An individual with physical access to a laptop computer can remove the laptop’s hard drive using a screwdriver. Once removed from the original

system, the laptop’s hard drive can be attached to another computer—one on which the individual has valid login credentials. When installed on another computer, the laptop hard drive is not the bootable system drive. Instead, the laptop hard drive appears as a secondary data drive (drive D,E, etc.). When attached to another system like this, the laptop’s data is just as readily accessible

as if an authorized user had logged on to the original laptop. At this point, all data is readable;

only encrypted data is hidden from view. What can an intruder use to enable this type of unauthorized access? There are several choices,

but the simplest is a hard disk enclosure kit. These kits are available from computer retailers. Hard disk enclosures have a very reasonable and legitimate purpose: to create a portable storage device. A hard disk enclosure allows any hard drive to be portable between computer systems. Such enclosures support both USB connections and 1394 (i.e., FireWire) connections. The cost is nominal—typically less than US$20 (€15).

Therefore, this legitimate product can have illegitimate uses. A hard disk enclosure enables unauthorized users to read the data on a hard

drive taken from a lost or stolen laptop computer.

By using this tool, anyone who has physical access to a hard drive can gain full access to the data on that drive. Hard disk enclosure kits also include a screwdriver, which is often the only tool needed to remove a hard drive from a laptop computer.

Securing data requires encryption

True data security requires making data unreadable to persons who are not authorized to access the

data. And because file system permissions can be overridden using schemes like the ones described earlier, data encryption is the only truly secure way to hide sensitive data. To unauthorized users, encrypted data is meaningless. Only authorized

users with valid credentials can access the encryption keys needed to decrypt and use data.

This section reviews encryption support in Microsoft Windows, and the encryption support in three popular data encryption products from Sophos.

A look inside encrypted files

To understand the protection that data encryption provides, you must understand the difference

between data in an unencrypted state and an encrypted state. In both states, the data appears

in two forms: (1) numeric values and (2) character data. Software engineers commonly use both types

of displays when they need to understand the exact location of each bit and byte of data. In an unencrypted “plain-text” display, the text data

is clearly readable. Interestingly, even the most sophisticated word processing programs typically store text data in a very readable form. Of course, this helps software engineers when writing the

sophisticated programs. From a security standpoint, this practice also makes it easy for anyone—friend or foe—to read data on a hard drive.

It’s a different situation when the same file is saved on a hard drive that is fully encrypted.

By comparing an encrypted display with an unencrypted display, it becomes obvious that the

two are different. The encrypted data contains nothing that seems even vaguely understandable.

And that is the essence of encryption—to make some piece of data unintelligible and unusable to all except those who are authorized to use the data.

Data encryption in Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows supports some data encryption. Starting with Windows 2000, Microsoft made

available support for the Encrypting File System (EFS), a built-in mechanism for encrypting specific files or entire folders that reside on NTFS partitions. Note that FAT partitions are not supported, which means that files stored on USB memory sticks cannot be encrypted.

Encrypting File System (EFS)

When an individual file is encrypted using EFS, modifications made to that file may result in

the creation of unencrypted, or “plain-text,” copies. When a user opens an encrypted file using Microsoft Word, the file is decrypted by the operating system and copied to a temporary location. The plain-text file is used during the editing process, and the contents get encrypted

again only when the file is closed. This process can leave unencrypted remnants on disk, opening the possibility that sensitive information may be revealed.

The greater vulnerability of EFS comes from the fact that access is tied to a user’s logon account.

For example, a data thief could reset a user’s password on systems that are vulnerable to the attacks described earlier in this paper. A thief can impersonate a legitimate user, thereby gaining access to the EFS files for which the compromised

user ID has access rights. Paradoxically, the use of EFS in such situations has a negative effect on data security. A thief would probably examine

EFS-enabled files first, based on the assumption that encrypted files are likely to be the ones withsensitive data.

BitLocker full-drive encryption

A more secure alternative to EFS is full-drive encryption. Full-drive encryption protects against

both types of attacks described in this paper. When alternative boot media is used, the contents of the encrypted drive are gibberish. When an

encrypted hard drive is connected as a secondary drive (see Attack #3), the contents are still not readable.

A central benefit of full-drive encryption is that the choice of what data to encrypt and what to leave unprotected is taken away from the user.

All data on encrypted partitions is encrypted without exception. Microsoft’s full-drive encryption

solution is BitLocker. Sophos’s full-drive encryption solutions are SafeGuard Easy and its successor SafeGuard Enterprise. Let’s consider BitLocker. On Windows Vista, BitLocker can encrypt one disk partition: the one with the operating system (typically the C drive). Compared to EFS, BitLocker provides a more secure way to protect data. On a BitLocker-enabled system, data on the boot partition is unavailable unless a valid password is entered during system boot.

As we have described, Microsoft has built in some support for data encryption, starting with Windows 2000. When you need more than what comes with the operating system, we invite you to look at

Sophos’s line of data encryption products.

Conclusion

Is your data at risk? Unless your data is encrypted,

the answer is yes. Although you must secure all

computer systems, those that leave a company’s

physical security perimeter are the most

vulnerable. Such computers include laptops used

by sales professionals, or those that executives

take on visits to remote company sites. Without

encryption, your company’s data is at risk. Don’t

become the next lost laptop headline.

About the Author

This article was provided by Sophos and is reproduced here with their full permission. Sophos provides full data protection services including: security software, encryption software, antivirus, and malware.

Where can I buy a T8 Security Torx Screwdriver?

I need to fix my 360 controllers and I need one of these assholes.

Stores only sell the bits, and the bits are too thick to fit in the controller's holes. I need a screwdriver to reach deep down in there.

Anyone know where I can buy one?

I found one website but it requires a $10 purchase, and the screwdriver is only like $2 and they have nothing else i need or anything could possibly even choose out of their crappy inventory.

Here you go

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take out security tags off Hot Topic store?? pleas help!!!?

so I bought a sweater at hot topic and it has the security tag on it I live pritty far from that store and my parents r too lazy to drive me there to take out the tag and I know about the whole security tag bending trick or screwdriver and other. but this security tag is different, it's not like others,
if anybody knows what I'm talking about (if anybody seen thier security tags latly). pleas don't say that you think I'm stealing, I rly want to take this damn thing out :p

so yeah help me is there anything I can use to take out that tag except go to the store and claim?
any tricks or imstruments? make me a video and use a hot topic security tag demonstration?
I give out best answers easily

I would just wait until you can go back to Hot Topic. I've heard some of those tags have an inky-liquid in them that ruins the piece when you try to open it without the proper remover.

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