October 11, 2007 by kb3ljm.

Beam me to Linthicum, Scotty.

Ever wonder where legendary electronic devices, like the TV camera Neil Armstrong used on the moon, the radar device that tracked the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor or the German Enigma code-making machine of World War II, ended up?

Many are at the Historical Electronics Museum in Linthicum, and Director Mike Simon is getting ready to receive yet another complex curiosity — a World War II German “Giant Wrzburg” radar antenna, lately used to study solar noise — to add to this 28-year-old museum’s static and interactive collection of defense electronics.
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October 11, 2007 by kb3ljm.

Microsoft issued fixes for four critical security flaws, including holes that could let hackers hijack computers using a Web browser, in a regularly scheduled update Tuesday.

Microsoft said it was patching four Internet Explorer holes with this one update. The flaws were found in several versions of Internet Explorer, including the most recent IE7.

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