10 Answers To Technical Questions For Our Grandchildren
Feb24
This is kinda Jeopardy Style
1. It was a device that at one time had a cord plugged into it like a tail with a roller underneath it. You would move it around on your desk to move your “cursor” around on your “monitor”. Then you’d press buttons on it to execute commands on your computer.
2. [...]
Surge Protection / UPS
Feb24
One thing often overlooked when setting up a system is the Surge Protection or UPS.
A UPS offers some protection against surges, but it’s still a good idea to plug the surge protector into the wall and the UPS into the surge protector. Worse case, you’re saving the surge protector a few surges.
A UPS offers a [...]
Make FireFox Lightning Fast!
Feb12
The following will be helpful to broadband users:
Step 1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return.
Scroll down and look for the following entries (it’s in alphabetical order):
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Step 2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true” (by dbl-clicking)
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true” (by dbl-clicking)
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. (This enables it [...]
Don’t Let Your Bank Account Be Exploited!
Feb09
In the early part of 2007, a friend of mine was one of the speakers at the MySQL convention in Las Vegas (I believe). While attending, he was able to listen to speakers from companies like Google, Yahoo, etc.
One of the things he learned and brought back to me was an exploit using javascript that [...]