Make good use of an old computer
Computers are getting old very fast. I have 5 computers at home and one of these computers I do not use at all. It has Pentium M processor 1.6GHz and it is about 7 years old.
File server
The easiest and one of the best roles for your old computer might be a file server. Don’t be afraid of the word "server". File server is a computer in your network, that has the primary purpose of providing shared disk access. You can use this shared disk as a shared storage for your documents, images, video files etc. File server doesn’t perform any specific computing tasks. It might be any computer even based on Windows 9x, but I would recommend you use at least Windows XP.
Date: 2012-01-15
[Read more] [Network]
uPad - Ubuntu mobile platform
First of all uPad is not a real product. It is a work that came to my mind when I first time heard about Ubuntu for mobile devices. I don't know the real name of the platform but uPad is quite possible name. It sounds cool and familiar to all iPad users.
I heard the word that Canonical can announce Ubuntu mobile devices with LG this CES. Gerry Carr, Canonical's Director of Communications denies any rumors. He said: "We have no plans to announce anything with LG next week. Every CES we see a bunch of new developments and devices built on Ubuntu, many of which we, Canonical, are involved in and many we are not. That's the nature of open source after all". But it doesn't mean this device will not be available at all. I'm sure Canonical wants to have any partnership with any mobile device manufacturer.
I know that Canoniacl's target is to have mobile Ubuntu ready for use on a phone or tablet within 2 years. Are you kidding? Two years? Who needs a new mobile OS in two years? In two years there will be no place for Ubuntu on mobile market.
Date: 2012-01-09
[Read more] [Hardware]
Lots of money
I like money. I like lots if money. This is a pile of money on my work desk and it is growing almost every day.
Date: 2012-01-08
[Read more] [Funny]
E-Mail address protection
I always maintain four or five mail boxes: one for work, one for communicating with the friends, one for the general public, and one for trash. I have had my work mailbox for six years and only my coworkers know this address. During all of this time, I have taken care to keep this address as private as possible and have been successful so far. As the result, the number of viruses and spam messages coming to this mailbox is virtually nil. The address for friends is more widely known and viruses sometimes are sent there. The other two addresses are widely known to general public and I receive megabytes of infected mail in them during periods of heightened virus activity.
Date: 2011-12-26
[Read more] [Security]
Computer Viruses in email attachments
It is a very good idea never to trust e-mail messages you receive. Never, open e-mail attachments if you are not 100% sure it is safe! Even if your friend's address is in the From field, there is no guarantee that the message is actually from your friend. Even if it is, this does not mean that it is safe to open the attachment: Your friend's computer may be infected by a virus that sends messages bearing his or her name to everyone in the address book, meaning that you might become a victim.
Virus writers understand their social engineering very well and go to great lengths to make their messages intriguing enough to get you to open the attachment. I often receive messages with attachments that are seemingly from my friends or partners, with subjects like "Urgently check this proposal!", but I never do this until I make sure it is safe.
Date: 2011-10-29
[Read more] [Security]
Cool car
It is the car of my dream. Halloween is coming and I would love to take a drive in such a car.
Date: 2011-10-18
[Read more] [Web]
Cala Loma, Toronto
I like this view at the Casa Loma castle.
The castle itself is very impressive. I would love to leave in such a place :)
Date: 2011-09-24
[Read more] [Web]
Must the security information be open?
There is no such thing as a universal method to break into an Internet site or server. Every time, an individual approach must be taken to open the necessary doorway. Although some attacks can overpower any defense, for example, a distributed denial-of-service (DoS) attack or brute-force password guessing, they can be too expensive in terms of time and computer resources to implement. Moreover, these attacks are as smart and subtle as driving a tank up to a bank and blasting the vault open. A hacker who breaks into a server using a brute-force attack to discover the password or who takes it out of commission by launching a distributed DoS attack against it will never be recognized as a professional; thus, these methods are used as a last resort and mostly by beginning crackers.
Why are attacks on computers increasing every year? The information about the security holes and vulnerabilities in computer systems used to be stored on bulletin board systems (BBSs), and only a few people with special privileges had access to it. So, it was hackers among these chosen few who carried out attacks with impunity, because their level of education and experience were quite high. It was difficult, often impossible, for a beginner or someone not belonging to the inner circle to gain access to such BBSs. This means that information about vulnerabilities and programs for implementing attacks were available only to a limited number of people.
Nowadays, this information and the necessary tools are available to anyone; thus, anyone can get into the cracking business. The situation is exacerbated by a host of utilities that automate the break-in process and are available to anyone at a number of Internet sites. With some of these utilities, all you have to do is to enter the address of the site to crack and click the Go button. The rest is done by the computer without any involvement on your part. You will not know how the computer did this, but there are quite a few individuals who could not care less; the only thing they are interested in is the results.
Date: 2011-07-31
[Read more] [Security]
Escape key doesn't work in Photoshop
Adobe is the worst company in the world. They don’t care about their customers at all. I have two licenses for Photoshop 8 and Photoshop 9, but I’m not going to buy Adobe products any more.
Escape key doesn’t work when Adobe Photoshop is running under Windows Vista or Windows 7. It is an existing issue since 2007. Photoshop users tried to force Adobe to fix the bug but on the company's form but with no luck. Today is July 2011 and the issue is not fixed yet.
I know, the problem exists not on all systems, but only Adobe products kill the Escape button. In my opinion it is Adobe Systems who should fix the problem.
The next graphic software I buy will be from Corel. This company not as big and it cares about every customer.
Date: 2011-07-23
[Read more] [Software]
Windows Phone 7 and Google+
Windows Phone 7 mobile browser is not supported by Google+. I've got an invitation to Google+ and was able to register on my Windows 7 laptop with no problem. Today I tried to go by the same invitation link from my Windows phone and I was able to see an ugly web page and some links on it. I clicked around and found nothing interesting.
But then I noticed that I'm on m.google.com. I tried to load plus.google.com with no luck. It is too sad. I need something to drink. Hope Google can fix is soon.
Date: 2011-07-13
[Read more] [WEB]