tools for remote employment and functioning off of the grid

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REMOTE MEETINGS

–«•»– remote conferencing software experience references 
      set the background image for your zoom screen 
      unbiased comparison 
        Figure 1. Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions 
   There may be a problem with settings compatable simultaniously with zoom, webex, and skype.
   A solution may be to have separate user names for use with each.

  
–«•»– Local Clubs in Lake County IL 
     
     RLB CERT   1st Sunday 6:30p

–«•»– parking lot Public Adress (PA) 
    Licensed equipment can be used to broadcast without a license. 

–«•»– reported examples of use of remote software 

 buffalo background image 

–«•»– x place holder 

–«•»– swivels for camera mounting 


RELATED TECHNICAL ISSUES    POWER

–«•»– ring installation 
   One can determine what to do from measurements at the door.   
  
–«•»– greenfield, BX limitations 
   If armored cable is too long the inductance of the helix can limit the current to
   less than the trip current and the shield can get red hot and start a fire. Also,
   there can often be a loud 60 cycle noise. 

–«•»– romex burial 
  type UF is suitable for burying and wet locations 
  NM-B cable is suitable only for very specific dry locations
  you are not allowed to run NM-B wire outside, even through a conduit

–«•»– auxilliary power interlock 
  It may be a good idea to design a changeover interlock that can not be defeated with a screwdriver
       It has been known that a battery backup for a cable or intenet router or modem can backfeed
       a utility pole transformer an put a high tension voltage on downed power lines.  However, often
       when a backup generator is fired up withut disconnecting from the mains, the load will stall out
       the generator. 

–«•»– neutral use checking 
   A breaker on each leg can share a neutral wire; however each such configuration requires
   a separate neutral wire.  The three wires are required to be grouped.  The correct
   isolation of these circuits can be checked with a clamp around ammeter.  The clamp
   can surround all three wires and breakers can be turned on and off while there is
   a load on the circuits.  The current reading will remain zero if things are in proper
   order.
 
–«•»– recharge electric vehicle in your garage 
   14-50R receptical 50A 4 wire 2 phase  
       receptical for junction box:  HomeDepot 918-302  Menards 363-6060 
       surface mount box:                      449-129



COMPUTER SECURITY

–«•»– recover data from many nonfunctioning consoles 
   USB support for any SSD/SATA/IDE 1.5/3.5/5.25 hard drive 
   
–«•»– flash memory lifetime 
   flash drives can last 20 years but they can wear out sooner without memory leveling 

–«•»– protection from pfishing 
   If you get a suspicious popup ad while viewing a web site, report it to:
   https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/106318?hl=en
   Also read:
   https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/static/faq.html#q1
   https://www.antiphishing.org/resources/overview/
   https://www.stopbadware.org/
   If you get a suspicious email report it to:
   https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8253?hl=en
–«•»– report scams to the Office of the Inspector General, socialsecurityadmin 
   report scams to the Illinois Secretary of State at ScamAlert@ilsos.gov

–«•»– t troubleshoot your computer 
    It may be that the malicious hackers and crackers are targeting the commercial anti-virus efforts.
    Open source  non commercial tools  may be the only resort:
      FCIV  NETSTAT WMIC OPENFILES NET FIND SFC TYPEPERF nmap.org/docs.html  PROCMON
    There may not be any way to comprehensively test everything on your computer without
    reinstalling or spending money.  But,  File integrity monitoring (FIM) 
    would be a sure fire way to stop most maliciousness.

–«•»– tools 
      vendors 
   
–«•»–beware of the  compromized  supply chain  important priorities for organizations  
    
–«•»– simple and effective computer protection 
    A relay that stays off after the power comes back on would be a very economical method of
    surge protection.  Industrial motors are protected this way with starters so that a machine
    will not come back on with no operator.  There should be surge protection at the service panel, 
    wall receptical, and power inlet of the computer.  e.g. Shurter 693-4431.1003 (Mouser)
    The inductance of the wire between the devices adds to the protection.  Inductance 
    can be added with a ferrite core: e.g.: Fair-Rite 0461167281 or 0461164281 . 
   
–«•»– learn programming concepts  e.g. declaring variables , iterative processes, assigning values
    Tex, MathML and asciiMath expressions can be developed.
    It can be done online without any installation of more plugins, apps, software, etc.

–«•»– Zero Trust Architecture          
         In light of the growing number of incidents like the ColonialPipeline incident,
         orgainizations should have a complete backup operating system as different as
         possible from the first one.  It should make minimal or no use of graphical intefaces,
         keep data separate form active components, active components shoul be on write
         protected media which require human manual override for changing, and all other
         possible protections
       chris nyhuis of vigilantnow.com: the villians study all of the commercial antivirus tools
       so one has to be agile and adaptive to use software that the villians know nothing about 
     stopransomware.gov
–«•»– Defense Report 
–«•»– EMP 
–«•»– solar flare 

–«•»– best practice  for security & robustness 
      The Next Version Of Fedora Picks Up Rust 
   88 CIS Best Practices 
 
–«•»– advanced persistent threat 
     www.fireeye.com/current-threats/apt-groups.html  list of dozens of miscreant groups
     https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/cyber-collaborative
        Best Practices for Mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats
   
–«•»– open robust methods  without proprietary formats
      magicCamera   hyperFun  
     cran-r-project.org/ .. /rayRender/ .. 
    
      crypto vulnerabilities 
–«•»– CISA precautions;  SEC precautions:
       https://www.protocol.com/fintech/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-regulations
       https://time.com/nextadvisor/investing/cryptocurrency/sec-new-crypto-regulation-gensler/
       https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/gensler-remarks-crypto-markets-040422
       homeland security: https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/anc
       attorney general: https://www.justice.gov/archives/ag/page/file/1326061/download
–«•»– list of crypto currencies  and  exchanges 
–«•»– security hacking incidents 
–«•»– ransome extortion 
–«•»– list of ransomware gangs 
–«•»–  list of data breeches 
–«•»–  list of crypto currency heists 
–«•»– list of spyware 

–«•»– detect byte order mark (BOM), unicode page, debug,edlin scripts, formats detection, conversion 
     
–«•»– U character based human readable non proprietary formats 
     


ENERGY and ENVIRONMENT

–«•»– shrublands  would be a place to install
       solar panels without colateral damage. 
     Desart to Power Initiative 

–«•»– Fuel cells  could be used to 
       extend the range of electric cars and with cogeneration and/or Combined 
       Heat and Power (CHP) reduce energy distribution cost and use.  And
       reduce the chances of stranding without a power outlet.  A van could be
       heated overnight while also charging the battery of an electric vehicle.
–«•»– 500C heat storage 
   When using the hot sand heat sink, a heat engine should be used to take advantage
   to make more electricity.
   When solar and wind electricity is used to make heat, the inefficiency of a heat
   engine may be avoided, but then taken advantage of by utilizing cogeneration. 

external combustion:
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/was-bill-lears-steam-powered-vapordyne-more-than-indy-racer-vaporware/
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/13/archives/lear-introduces-vapor-turbine-engine.html

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–«•»– low tech survival  
 vehicles withour computers 

 survival links 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk#Potential_sources_of_risk
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivability
 Nuclear, Biological and Chemical  
 disaster 
 index 

 Power Cube off grid functionality 

Glenn Reeves'  spreadsheet for calculating your income tax:
 www.excel1040.com  
 sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home
 
 future science 
 fed: Impacts of different types of catastrophes   
 npr Notes From An Apocalypse  ISBN 9780385543002   

Every library should have a  complete set of the Boy Scout 
  merit badge books, so that, people can take care of themselves when everyone else will have to take care of
  themselves during an emergency.
note: Whoever wrote the plumbing book does not understand gaskets and does not understand that nominal
      iron pipe outside diameters are not even fractions; they are odd decimal numbers.  For instance,
      3/4 iron pipe has an OD of 1.050" which is more than 1" and less than 1+1/16".



 Fix Absolutely Anything: maintenance, gardening, ... skyhorse ISBN-13  978-1629141862  
 auto repair     hackaday 



LESS RELEVANT SOCIOLOGICAL ISSUES

 carjack tracing  allow law enforcement to access location information swiftly
     fentanyl test 
  https://ovsjg.dc.gov/service/private-security-camera-system-incentive-program
  https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/24/reko-m24.html  facial recognition technology to police

https://wirepoints.org/why-americans-overwhelmingly-reject-critical-race-theory-wirepoints/ 
https://wirepoints.org/wirepoints-podcast-the-dialogue-episode-14-a-waukegan-history-teacher-takes-on-crt/

–«•»– coronavirus mitigation 

  https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-47639450  bbc live world news stream newsfeed
–«•»– n news, issues and world problems and solutions 
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Pico_della_Mirandola
    theses pronounced heretical by Pope Innocent VIII in his bull of 4 August 1487
  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber  multiple causes
    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/296551/the-protestant-ethic-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism-by-max-weber/
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconodulism
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre a few days after the wedding day

–«•»– population control  
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process#History
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-53644147/james-lovelock-gaia-theory-creator-on-coronavirus-and-turning-101
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis#Natural_selection_and_evolution

–«•»– wisdom of the ages  
–«•»– government overreach hazards  
–«•»– Points that Define a Free Republic  

 novel thing for your garden 

–«•»– E ontological composition, esperanto 
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