Archives for February 2013

Bits Bytes and Multiple Bytes

The various terms used for digital measurements can be confusing. This page attempts to at least explain what the various terms actually mean. CKnow … [Read more...]

Video Display Standards

Video display standards have evolved from early monochrome to today's high resolution color. The evolution of these standards is summarized … [Read more...]

Donder vs Donner – That’s right Santa’s reindeer

In 1823 Clement C. Moore wrote a poem naming Santa's reindeer. He named one of the reindeer "Donder." In the 1950s Gene Autry made the song "Rudolph … [Read more...]

Random Thoughts

This is the start of the CKnow blog. It will be a random entry blog of items of interest to the CKnow Website owner and posting will depend on when … [Read more...]

Google’s Server Setup

CNET News has posted a story about how Google manages their server farm(s). This once secret information reveals a company who, despite their revenue, … [Read more...]

Cyber Attacks Getting Worse?

[Original post 4/10/2009] Increasing news reports are indicating that cyber attacks are both increasing and getting increasingly bad. A number of … [Read more...]

Twitter Worm(s)

Twitter and other services need to address security. You, the user, need to as well. Yet another Twitter cross-site scripting worm is making its … [Read more...]

Les Misérables

[Original post 5/6/2009] Les Misérables as put on by the California Central Coast-based PCPA organization is an outstanding … [Read more...]

Any Servicemember Mail Suspended

As ex-military, I support supporting the troops. One of the ways of doing so, widely written about on the Web, is to address a letter to "any … [Read more...]

Where Did AddThis Go?

For most of June 2009 CKnow had an AddThis button in the footer of the site. This button allowed users to highlight pages on various bookmarking … [Read more...]