You can read all about the Meltdown and Spectre attacks on the internet. Should you be worried? YES! Of course you read on many sites that that you should not worry too much because no attacks have been reported. Lol, would you report such an attack if you are a criminal organization including our intelligence […]
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The problem: Illegal NSA operations The NSA and other agencies want all your data, the reason is control. How do they do it: We learned from the Snowden leaks about FoxAcid and Quantum, these are almost impossible to escape from. You are being fed with false responses containing code (software) to compromise your system. Main […]
Many special effects for web pages can be found at http://www.dynamicdrive.com. But this time I needed a bulb that was turned on/off by a mouseover. Well, that wasn’t too difficult with Eric Dennison’s fantastic glass button generator. Try it yourself at: http://www.netdenizen.com/buttonmill/glassy.php
Once again it is time to install linux for a desktop PC, sigh. Once again go to Distrowatch, read reviews. Ok, ok, Ubuntu it will be this time. According to their website, Ubuntu is an African word meaning ‘Humanity to others’. Well, that really makes my day …
My PC with DVD recorder came with Nero burning software. But every time you click you get messages telling you to upgrade, time to look for free burning software. Used CDBurnerXP Pro3 for a number of months but suddenly it did not want to burn anymore. Searching I stumbled upon HT Fireman CDDVD Burner. Tried […]
Barcodes are great when selling certain stuff online. You have to settle with the shop or zoo about the codes that are issued but once that is out of the way, you let your customers order online and upon receiving their payment show them a page with information and a barcode.They must print this page, […]
Two websites had problems because of their cookies being blocked by Internet Explorer (IE). This was caused by the fact that these sites were running inside a frame on another domain. It appeared that IE6 adhears to P3P, a far too strict privacy policy for websites. I had to tell the applications to start with […]
For a number of years I have been running a seperate physical SME server but some time ago I read an article about adding a VMWare virtual machine with IPCop firewall to your XP system. Tried this and it worked, amazing! After running this setup for the past three months, I added another virtual machine […]