From the archive

December 2003

112 posts

John Perry Barlow’s experience with VoIP

It is very nice to see when someone has a similar experience with VoIP as I have. The only difference was my connection was with my wife while I was on travel. I left the connection open for hours and I had the speakers turned up. I was able to experience all the normal noise from home from the kids

Microsoft to make Spammers pay in CPU Cycles

I had to laugh at this article, if Microsoft thinks that they are going to be able to get widespread implementation of this outside of Windows products I think they are smoking crack. Their idea is to force outgoing messages to go thru a puzzle routine that would eat 10-20 seconds via processor time to solve the puzzle before the

Virtual PC for Mac

If someone would to buy me a G5, I would be happy to try this software out and write up an extensive review ;) [Microsoft]

Mini iPods

It is rumored that Apple will roll out Mini iPods in 2 and 4 Gig capacity in January. [Think Secret]

Has your wireless connection been hacked

I am very strict about personal PC security and have levels of protection on my systems that most people would not consider. My wireless access point had me concerned and for a long time and I was not satisfied with the linksys WAP security features and replaced it with a Netgear product. The Netgear WAP has a cool option that

Beagle Prob not calling home from Mars

British scientist have not thrown in the towel yet but Mars may have eaten another probe. The British Beagle should have made radio contact with NASA's Mars Odyssey but it did not. They then turned earth based Radio telescopes towards Mars and after 2 hours of listening all was quiet from the red planet. [BBC] [BBC]

Giving the Gift of a new PC?

Thanks to Slashdot for the good link. If you are giving the gift of a new PC then you need to provide the following link to the new owner this will allow them to survive the first 24 hours without getting hacked [SANS]

Office of Homeland Defense issues overflight approval

A Flash Bulletin has been issued by the Office of Homeland Security for a one time Unrestricted flight clearance to penetrate US Airspace. The flight clearance has been forwarded approved to the FAA, Norad and Department of Defense. Apparently the first ever special request was filed by Santa in order to expedite package deliveries around the United States, last years

Fascinating Referral Log

They say curiosity killed the cat, well when I look thru my referral logs to see where this website readership is coming from I end up scratching my head a little bit. I know we get a lot of traffic from Media Companies, Aerospace Industry, Wireless Companies, VC Firms, Cable Companies, Military Domains, Commercial Broadband Installers, Internal IP's from Telephone

VoIP made huge strides in 2003

Being a VoIP early adopter using some of the now defunct IP chat services the advancements in reliability and sound quality has been impressive. I am now testing with great success modern pay services like Vonage. But I still have quite a few people I chat with on Skype something about a free service that allows you to bypass the

Tiny URL’s site is getting heavier demand

As URL get longer do to fewer and fewer good domains being out there many people simply are having a hard time typing in the long URL's that is where Tiny URL and several other services have filled in allowing any long url to be converted to a 6 letter url which helps avoid typing the url wrong when people

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