by Jovie Cabais | Mar 3, 2013 | Tech Updates
If you have a pile of pictures back in the days of film photography, now is the time to digitize them before they are lost or get damaged. Auza.Net is now accepting bulk scanning services at reasonable prices. To get your film based pictures scanned, just bring your albums or shoeboxes full of pictures to Auza.Net Business Services Center at the K of C Building on right side on the way to JJ’s Seafood Village. The skilled technical staff at Auza.Net will then scan your pictures one-by-one and save the image files into a CD or DVD. You can then upload these digitized pictures to Facebook or other social networks. You may also have your important documents scanned. An optional service is an online backup to our cloud based server. The backup is password protected and provides a convenient way to access your digitized pictures online. Share...
by Jovie Cabais | Mar 3, 2013 | Tech Updates
Just little more than three months to go before the 2013 elections and people are getting into the reliability of the famous PCOS machines to be used to count the ballots. Information technology, represented by the PCOS machines, is hoped to enable a successful election. But there are issues raised that might results to massive cheating and fraud. Some people say the PCOS machine results can be altered while being transmitted. While this is technically possible but it does not mean that the election officials and everybody else who know the results coming out of the machine would keep quiet if the results they transmitted for counting at the headquarters do not match their transmission. For someone planning to cheat on the results, this is not the right approach. Even if the method is so advanced, this can be detected very easily by humans since the results are posted in a publicly accessible website. We’ve heard some concerns raised that the machines can be programmed to favor a certain candidate. This is also technically possible but the random manual count can detect this. Also omeone has to have the resources (financial mostly) to be able to coordinate the favorable programming and ensure that the random manual count does not catch this. This is why the random manual count has to be really selected at random. Also, selection should be determined after the initial counting so that any machine with altered programming has a chance of being selected for random testing. While there is a possibility of altering the results, the biggest advantage of using the PCOS machines is speed...
