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After Chris at www.lockergnome.com linked the Open Directory Project Story last week, we had the usual Lockergnome crowd surge. After analyzing the servers log files for the week we found several interesting links in our log files that linked to my post. The number 1 reference link was to a Open Directory Project private forum entry. I must have touched
I have been shopping around for some Net phone service and learned a great deal in the process. Net2Phone was only 2 cents per minute from your PC to any phone in the US. Here is a list of various long distance plans.
Porn scams cost consumers 230 Million dollars. Nothing like Sex to spice up a story. Seems that a lot of people who were looking for porn free tours ended up with not such a free tour after all. [Washington Post]
It is becoming technically harder and harder to win the battle against file-sharing. In the past P2P services have been assigned to a particular port and network managers could block those ports. However, developers of new file-sharing services have redesigned the applications to use random ports. [BBC News]
Freenet isn't only the most secure & anonymous P2P network, but also has a lot to offer. I was quite surprised to see what was offered. [Freenet]
Thanks to Chris over at Lockergnome for the following link. The link on Windows history is totally cool. You can take a walk back in time. Even if the time-line is not that long but ohh boy we have come a long way baby. There are a couple of versions I did not even know existed in the listings [Microsoft
Operation X has kicked up the Volume and has released a Linux version of it's distributed computing cracking software. There goal is to try and guess the 2,048 bit encryption code used by Microsoft's Xbox game console. [Operation X]
Microsoft found out about a security flaw in it's Windows 2000 server software when a clients server was breached. Goes to show you Microsoft has a long way to go in securing the operating system. [ZD Net]
They say the average person in the world is photographed 200 times a day. I find this number a little high but if you think about it you probably can count 20 or so obvious places that may photograph you each day. Well MIT has dug into this subject and has come up with some interesting conclusions while revealing some
Hi folks well my work schedule is going to be hell for the foreseeable future I may not be posting as much but will try to post as often as I can.
We went to the beach today. I always take a radio and being lazy was doing a Auto Scan and found a rouge radio station. Not one to miss a opportunity I tried to figure out where the guy was transmitting from. Being we were very close to downtown Honolulu with a lot of high rises. I gave up rather
From the feedback I get from time to time. I know some of you are beginner Geeks and are looking for basic information about your computer and the net. I found a entertaining beginners computer site that for the non geek could be useful in explaining things in layman terms. [www.secretguide.net]
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