Joe Consumer never “puts together” his computer or upgrades his CPU. Joe Consumer buys prepackaged systems with Windows XP preinstalled. Personally (and probably a lot of /.ers are like me) I bought my last 2 systems as case, motherboard, CPU/heatsink, hard drive, CDROM or DVDROM and assembled them. The advantages for me were (1) I…Continue Reading…
The World According To Google (Page 5 of 5) It can also showcase fads at the expense of substance. “Popular does not make a site accurate, comprehensive, or even interesting,” Vaidhyanathan says, using his own first name as an example. A Google search on “Siva” returns links to a song by the rock group Smashing…Continue Reading…
http://spamcop.net You can register with Spamcop for free, get an ID, and forward all spam messages (full headers) to Spamcop. They automatically trace the originis of the offending spam message, send a report to you, and you click on where to send the report, and it forwards it to the where it really hurts the…Continue Reading…
Maybe Microsoft sucks, but they have deep pockets and they keep up their reputation with advertising. I had thought false advertising is illegal; but something is wrong here.
… so I read. I haven’t actually tried the software. Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic. Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named…Continue Reading…
When I checked my Spam folder in Gmail today, I got a nice “Hooray, no spam here!” message. And it’s true – no spam has yet been sent to my account. In addition, I’m told, “You are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 1000 MB.” So fill ‘er up (and I’ll make it a…Continue Reading…