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Housed in aluminum rackmount enclosure that provides EMI/RFI shielding, Model 7334 5-to-1 BNC switch allows access of workstation or device between 5 other devices or networks. Both center pin and shell signals are switched by unit and switch ports are transparent to all data. DB9 RS232 serial port allows user to remotely control switch and lockout front-panel pushbutton control. Custom length BNC coaxial cables are available. This story is related to the following:Electrical Equipment and systems Sponsored by: Globtek Inc. - Your Power Partner...For Over 20 Years!Computer Hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: Remote Control Switches | Data Switches | Computer Switches | A/B Switches | network Devices

Consuming less than 15 W, Acqiris U1071A digitizer is designed in short PCI card format (170 x 107 x 16 mm). Two-channel digitizer series can provide up to 1 GS/s simultaneous sampling rates on each input or, through channel interleaving, up to 2 GS/s on either channel. Analog bandwidths available are 1 GHz, 500 MHz, and 200 MHz. Commutable 50 ohm or 1 Mohm input impedances on input channel allow integration into applications requiring high bandwidth and high sample rate. This story is related to the following:Test and Measuring InstrumentsComputer Hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: PC Based Digitizers | PCI Data Acquisition Boards

With Intel® Core(TM) 2 Duo/Celeron® M (socket-P based) processor, COM-965 offers Intel X3100 graphics core with support for 24-bit dual-channel LVDS, TV-out, and CRT with support for simultaneous/dual view configurations. It includes 2 SODIMM sockets for supporting up to 4 Gb of DDRII memory. Features include Gigabit Ethernet, 8 USB2.0 ports, one PATA and 3 SATA interfaces, dc input range of 8.5-19 Vdc, and support for PCI-Express graphic cards. This story is related to the following:Computer Hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: Single Board Computers

PALO ALTO, Calif. - HP today announced two new consumer desktop PCs and a color display designed to have reduced impact on the environment. - - The HP Pavilion Verde Special Edition a6645f and HP Pavil... [WebWire - Monday, October 20, 2008]

PALO ALTO, Calif., HP today unveiled renewable energy initiatives in its facilities, research and products to support a new goal to double the company's global purchases of renewable power from under ... [WebWire - Monday, October 20, 2008]

Canon to Display record management Scanning Solutions and Sneak Preview of New imageFORMULA Product - - Las Vegas - Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of digital office imaging systems and solution... [WebWire - Monday, October 20, 2008]

Flavien writes "A team from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, found 4 different ways to fully or partially recover keystrokes from wired keyboards at a distance up to 20 meters, even through walls. They tested 11 different wired keyboard models bought between 2001 and 2008 (PS/2, USB and laptop). They are all vulnerable to at least one of our 4 attacks. While more information on these attacks will be published soon, a short description with 2 videos is available."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

tsm_sf writes "A recent Slashdot article got me thinking about dead and dying media. I'd like to build a cheap PC with the goal of being able to read as many old formats as possible. Size and power consumption would be design considerations; priority of media formats would be primary. How would you approach such a project?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Heise.de's Kernel Log has a look at the ext4 filesystem as Linus Torvalds has integrated a large collection of patches for it into the kernel main branch. "This signals that with the next kernel version 2.6.28, the successor to ext3 will finally leave behind its 'hot' development phase." The article notes that ext4 developer Theodore Ts'o (tytso) is in favor of ultimately moving Linux to a modern, "next-generation" file system. His preferred choice is btrfs, and Heise notes an email Ts'o sent to the Linux Kernel Mailing List a week back positioning ext4 as a bridge to btrfs.Read more of this story at Slashdot.