Writing by GuardDog on Wednesday, 11 of June , 2008 at 5:07 pm
Nowadays, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping. As we do these things on a more symmetric groundwork, we open ourselves up to potential hackers, attackers and crackers. While various may be looking to phish your personal information and oneness for resale, others simply objective want to use your computer as a platform from which to attack other unknowing objects. Below are a few easy, cost-effective steps you can take to make your computer more secure.
1. Always make backups of important information and lay up in a secure place separate from your computer.
2. Update and patch your operating system, web browser and software routinely. If you have a Windows operating system, start by going to www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com and running the update wizard. This program will help you find the latest patches for your Windows computer. Further go to www.officeupdate.microsoft.com to locate possible patches for your Office programs.
3. Install a firewall. Without a good firewall, viruses, worms, Trojans, malware and adware can all easily fit your computer from the Internet. Consideration should be given to the benefits and differences between hardware and software based firewall programs.
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Writing by GuardDog on Wednesday, 11 of June , 2008 at 4:20 pm
When you surf the web it is possible to learn information about you even when you don’t penuriousness to advertise who you are. This is true even if your system contains no venom or malware software.
Specifically wisdom that is easily available online includes your IP address, your country (and normally more location information based on IP address), what computer system you are on, what browser you use, your browser history, and new information. It gets worse. People can get your computer’s repute and even find out your name if your machine supports programs like finger or identd. Also, cookies can track your habits as you move from machine to machine.
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Writing by GuardDog on Sunday, 8 of June , 2008 at 12:00 pm
How to Fight the Rising Cost of Gasoline Prices and How to Reduce Gas Consumption
According to Wikipedia, in economics, consumerism refers to economic policies placing emphasis on consumption. In an abstract sense, it is the belief that the free choice of consumers should dictate the economic structure of a society (cf. Producerism, especially in the British sense of the term). [Citation needed]
Notice again the statement: “…it is the belief that the free choice of consumers should dictate the economic structure of a society”. It is truly our free choice of consuming mass quantities of gasoline and that has dictated to us what we will be willing to pay for it.
The big oil companies are just that: companies. As with any company, to stay in business, it needs consumers of its products. That is where we come in. We simply do not have to give them our hard earned money unless we want to, at least not totally. (Communities such as the Amish probably wonder what all the anger is about!).
So what is the solution to Reduce Gasoline Consumption and Fight Rising Gas Prices?
Adopt the way of life of such groups as the Amish. Ok, now since 99% of us will not do this then we must look for other “best” ways for us.
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Writing by GuardDog on Saturday, 7 of June , 2008 at 9:55 am
Now there is an issue with 2.5.1 where if a member looses their password and click the ‘Forgotten Password’ link, the link in the email states “Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid.”
Download the ZIP file with those two changed files here:
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Unzip it using WinZIP or something, then upload those two changed files to your site.
Now try the forgotten password thing. It should work and not have those weird characters in it. Note that they will have to generate a new email and such through the forgotten password link, this won’t make those old emails magically work.
Edit: Actually, looking closer at the code, I see that it won’t regenerate the key if one is already there. You’ll need to clear the user_activation_key data or force it to regenerate those.
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Writing by GuardDog on Saturday, 7 of June , 2008 at 9:23 am
More and more often, accessing the Internet becomes limited by the presence of censoring tools and methods (and I am not speaking of those countries where this has been institutionalized like China, Iran or Tunisia). It may be to avoid your spending too much time idling instead of working or it may be to ensure that you do not access to “questionable material”. But the Internet is highly flexible in nature and there may be good solutions to avoid this censorship.
If all else fails, why not install your own proxy. In most cases, you can install one wherever you like and it will be known by you only. this way, you have a personnal anti-censorship tool that you can move any time you want. Several proxy servers written in PHP can be used for this:
2 - Use TOR
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Main problems:
- Some web sites (e.g. SlashDot) block all TOR-enabled IP addresses because they have been used to abuse them.
- Installing a TOR node is more complex, but very efficient.
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