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Hacked! Seven tips for fighting back!

By Gib ⋅ June 14, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

In this post, I share what I’ve learned in battling back from hacking and spamming attacks to regain control of my website and make it secure. This brings to mind the wider issue of the internet’s vulnerability, which I will address in a follow-up post. During the last six months, intruders repeatedly broke into my [...]

Bioelectricity beats ethanol

By Gib ⋅ May 8, 2009 ⋅ Leave a comment

Science Magazine reports that converting biomass to ethanol fuel for vehicles powered by internal combustion engines is much less efficient than burning biomass to generate electricity for batteries of electric vehicles. The same acre of switchgrass, for example, could propel an electric powered car 7,000 miles further than a car with a combustion engine. The [...]

Satellite collision adds to debris cloud surrounding earth

By Gib ⋅ February 13, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Two of the nearly 1,000 satellites above the Earth collided on February 10th, adding about 500 pieces of debris to the approximately 17,000 that are large enough to track, as well as another 10,000 smaller bits of flotsam and jetsam to the many thousands already orbiting our planet. The graphic on the left illustrates the [...]

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