The (Other) End of the Internet

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Most users of Windows will agree that, while Windows XP runs quickly when it’s just been installed, it tends to get more and more sluggish as time goes by. There are many people who are of the opinion that Windows […]

While we were enduring the power failure last week my brother came up with an interesting way to cook meals. We were blessed with a wood-burning fireplace with an insert that we were able to cook on. My brother didn’t have such a convenience and, because necessity is the mother of invention, he devised a […]

Recently I got the chance to fiddle around with Ubuntu Linux and I kind of like it. I liked it enough that I’d like to install it on my desktop machine so I can actually use the real thing instead of a live CD or a virtual machine. However, I’m not sure I like it […]

I spent a good part of this morning working on setting up another blog I intend to start maintaining. I’m not going to give out it’s name or URL yet because at the moment there’s nothing there.
This new blog is going to be specifically about cameras, camera accessories, and photography. My wife found a wordpress […]

I’ve spent quite a bit of time recently trying to learn how to make it impossible for someone with a laptop to park down the road from my house and use my internet connection and any shared resources I have on any of these computers.
Here’s a quick summary of what I’ve learned:

DO NOT use WEP […]

I had a bit of a fright the other day. I was looking around the internet trying to learn about wireless network security when I happened upon an article detailing “How To Crack 128-bit Wireless Networks In 60 Seconds“. I’m not posting that link as a tutorial on how to steal your neighbor’s internet account, […]

I don’t know how many times I’ve heard the comment that the best way to deal with SPAM emails is to delete them unread - preferrably with some sort of filtering software to automate the process.
I prefer to take a more pro-active approach
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As a budding photographer I occasionally find myself wanting to post images online so I can show them off, but I don’t want everyone who sees them to be able to steal them. There are several ways to make this more difficult, […]

Like a lot of other people, I use Thingamablog 1.06 to maintain this blog. It’s easy and, most importantly, it’s FREE.
I happen to know that in a few days someone who is new to blogging in general (you know who you are) is going to ask me for instruction on how to use this software […]

One of the first things to remember when taking pictures with a digital camera is that bigger is definitely better. A large picture can be scaled down with no real problems. Some information (image detail) is lost in the reduction, but the resulting image is to small to show the difference anyway. The problems arise […]