Refers to safeguards that are applied to both machinery and the operators who work with them. Examples are interlocks that stop a motor if a person gets too close, safety guards that cover moving gears and blades, as well as the more obvious safety goggles and protective clothing. See safety.
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Additional Resources
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- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Parallels Desktop 4 for Mac or how I lost my socks
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- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Making Man As Super As His Computer
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- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- OLPC revives G1G1: too little, too late
- Oh, there's lots of excitement that OLPC is bringing back Give One, Get One for this holiday season. Amazon is selling the green machines in pairs (one for a kid in the developing world, one for yours) and the G1G1 program is going global, too. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- $400 XOs and recessions
- The OLPC XO goes on sale through Amazon Monday via a redux of their Give One Get One (G1G1) program that turned into such a debacle last year. It's no secret that, despite my utter willingness to give props to OLPC for spurring an entire market of...
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Are MacBooks starting to look like HPs?
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- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Prevent auto Windows shutdown, reboot
- Are you a serial software-installer? Has Windows rebooted while you were in the middle of doing something else? If you install software on a regular basis and get rebooted on without asking, ShutdownGuard could be a useful little utility for you. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- The UrbanSpoon effect
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- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Adventures in CA Support Day 2
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- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Live migration across different platforms demonstrated
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- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
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- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Apple fixes 12 Safari security flaws
- Apple has release Safari 3.2 to fix at least a dozen security flaws, some very serious. The update, available for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard, address vulnerabilities that could be exploited to take full control of a compromised machine. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Adventures in CA support
- I received an Email notice this morning that my support agreement with CA for their Internet Security Suite was ending and that I should pay for an update. Since I'm well aware of how long a Windows XP system will survive on the network without a security breach, I dutifully...
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Google Chrome vulnerable to data theft flaw
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- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- VMware follows in Virtuallogix's footsteps
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- Blog posts 2008-11-13
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- Blog posts 2008-11-12
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- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Apple to launch 'aggressive' Black Friday sale?
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- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Cadillacs recalled over software bug
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- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Ncomputing the benefits of operating system virtualization
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- Blog posts 2008-11-12
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