I’m pleased to have a good friend of mine; NightOwl, joining me here posting news and articles as we head down the road to Vista.
So thanks NightOwl and here’s to some interesting times ahead 
New addition
Just another use for that hotel minibar key
And here you thought that those e-voting machines were secure just as their manufacturers say they are.
Well according to some experiments done by the folks over at Freedom to Tinker those machines can be opened with a commonly used key; everything from hotel minibars to office furniture.
Chris’s key was left over from a previous job, maybe fifteen years ago. He said the key had opened either a file cabinet or the access panel on an old VAX computer. A little research revealed that the exact same key is used widely in office furniture, electronic equipment, jukeboxes, and hotel minibars. It’s a standard part, and like most standard parts it’s easily purchased on the Internet. We bought several keys from an office furniture key shop — they open the voting machine too. We ordered another key on eBay from a jukebox supply shop. The keys can be purchased from many online merchants.
Way to go Diebold.
WinExtra Community Forums up and running
I still have some work to do with them but the Community Forums are now available. You can access them by clicking on the WinExtra Community Forums link in the Site Links area on the right navigation. You can also click here to get to them.
Hopefully everything with them will be finished up by tomorrow at some point and I will be able to get back to posting news and information here; along with finding a WordPress theme that I can live with.
Getting things in place
Please bear with me as I try and get everything in place as fast as I can. My first order of priority is to get the forums up and running. I will post the link as soon as they are available.
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