The advent of wireless routers has helped small offices and home computers interconnect and function fast. No more sharing of files with thumb drives or squabbles over who will access the internet fast. If you have notebook or laptop you can keep repositioning your place of work within your house, such is the convenience of [...]

Filed under : Computers, PCs, and Macs

This Guide will walk you through how to install a firewall on linux using IPCop   What is IPCop The IPCop project is a GNU/GPL open source project that offers an exceptional feature packed  stand alone firewall to the internet community.  Its comprehensive web interface, well documented  administration guides, and its involved and helpful user/administrative [...]

Filed under : How To, Technical

www.xyhd.tv/proxy Has the beta of my new MakeMeANinja.com Proxy.   If you are trying to avoid the firewall at your school, or work or the CyberNanny that your mom put on, this is a great way to do it.  Free, works with most sites and faster than any of the alternatives out there.  We’ll move [...]

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A How to Guide: Microsoft Windows Media Video 8, and DivX By Brandon Wirtz bwirtz@griffin-digital.com This document has now been expanded in to a full fledged book and multimedia presentation.  To find out more visit my Digerat.com page here An Introduction: 1 Choosing the Right Codec: 2 Best Codec by Bit Rate: 3 Implementation: 4 [...]

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This article is related to the NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) feature available with SQL Server. NUMA is a very useful feature to scale up the Server. Even before we discuss how SQL Server 2005 supports NUMA we have a few questions that needs to be addressed. A question that is frequently asked is: What [...]

Filed under : Industry News

How many Apple engineers does it take to change a light bulb?  7.  One to design the light bulb and Six to Market it. I heard this Joke on the Prairie Home Companion the other evening, and it resonated with me. Combined with the joke about Intel Engineers.  How many Intel engineers does it take to [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents, Technical

It is partially my fault.  I did let the installer “Drive” rather than watching everything he did.  Which was dumb.  The first rule of securing your PC is don’t let people you don’t trust use it.  And people you do trust watch what they do.  This is security 101, but he was working on a machine [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents, Technical