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Secure your home router
It never ceases to amaze me how clueless some people are about thier privacy. They buy a shredder to shred their do*****ents or they have fits about showing thier ID to a clerk when presenting a check. I know that is another story. The fact remains though that people are tighter with social security numbers and bank info then Bush was with money and response time to Katrina victims.

But yet when they fire up that wireless router to answer email while they sitting on their porcelain throne adding to the brown trout population. They could not be more exposed then if someone tore down that bathroom wall.

I can sit on my front porch and access no less four wireless networks. No encryption and the default username and password in the admin log in. Secure your wirless and wired networks people. I live on a lake and have taken my boat with my laptop out only to be bombarded with dozens of unsecured wireless networks. A nefarious person could do some very bad things with that much network access.

You may think that no one cares or that your out in the middle of nowhere but guess again. I travel with my notebook by car. As do more people then you think or people with smartphone. It is nothing to pull along the side of the road in the vicinity, not in front of your house but maybe as faraway as 200 yards and logon to your network to check my email. Secure those networks folks.

Also a recent article I read pointed out something new in that people are placing malware in the routers themselves. This would give access to not one but all the computers on your network.

Read more here on malware for your router.

For tips on securing your home network then read on.

Tips for securing your network.

1. Turn off the SSID (Server Set Identifier): This is what broadcasts your wireless name. If they cannnot see it then they will not get on. You can find this most likely under the setup tab.

2. Turn WPA or WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access) on: If your router has only WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) STOP RIGHT NOW and go buy yourself one with WPA/WPA2. WEP is old and easier to crack then an egg with a sledgehammer. Buy a new router but disconnect the old one first. WPA uses a shared passphrase that is put into both the pc and router. This passphrase is called a shared secret. The passphrase should long with upper and lower letters, numbers and symbols. Not "my son was born on MARCH 12" This is too easy, you need to use a phrase but only use the first letter in each word. An example would "girls 8 are made with 3 sugar and spice and ever thing nice at 301 West South Temple key largo florida!" turns into g8Amw3SasaETn@301WStkLf! Is this unbreakable no.... but the longer it is, the harder and longer it will be to crack. The phrase the person picked out is something not many adults will remember. The person likes basketball so the street address is for the arena where the Utah Jazz play at but they are not his favorite team. The city and state is somewhere the person would like to go and the two numbers were just thrown randomly. Never use the names or important birthdates in the people in your life as part of the passphrase. That is why we take the first letter of each word. Hackers use software that try to guess the username or password or your passphrase. this sotware starts at the letter A ad continues with each and every word until guesses the word. Making them one long jumbled mass of letters, numbers and symbols makes it all the harder.
You can find the setup for this in the Set Up Tab or Admin Tab or SecurityTab.

3. Turn on MAC (Media Access Control) Addressing: Every single piece of hardware that lets you connect to a wired or wireless network (I.E. usb wireless, cable or dsl modem, wired or wireless card and so on) has what is call a MAC Address. This is an address for that piece of hardware. The I.P. address points to your computer but the MAC Address points to the piece of hardware on that computer that allows it to be connected to your network. By enabling MAC Addressing you saying that specific pieces of hardware can join on your wireless network. If someone tries get on and they successfully have the passphrase but their MAC Address is not in the router then they will no be given access.

4. Change the username and password. Many people if they change the password leave the username at "Admin". The same thing applies here as the passphrase for hooking into the network. Jumbled lower and uppercase letters, symbols and numbers. Also as with the passphrase the longer it is the more secure it is.

5. Turn off DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) and assign the IP address: If your router allows for it. You can assign only specific IP Address to gain access to your network. When you hook up to your home network, your computer is given an IP address. This is like your house address on your street. The system knows where to send and recieve your information. This is done by the DHCP, this automatically give's you your IP address. If you turn off DHCP and manually assign each pc on your network an IP Addresss then only those with that specific address can join the network. Most people use home networks that start out 192.168.0.--- or 192.168.1.--- but start your network out higher such as 192.168.78.---. You can go all the way up to 192.168.254.---. This will be in Set-Up or the Start tab.

6. Turn it down: Many wireless routers give you the option to turn down the signal strength. If you only use it in your house or apartment then turning down the signal can stop other people from seeing or jumping on your bandwidth wagon.

7. Turn it off: If your not using then turn it off. Yes thats right... reach down and pull the plug from the wall.

8. For both wired and wireless networks turn on the firewall and antivirus: The Windows firewall is better then nothing. Click here for free antivirus and firewalls

For wired and wireless networks make sure you have a router with a Stateful Packet Inspection Firewall or SPI Firewall. This looks at every bit of info coming and out of your network. Network Address Translation or NAT makes it look like there is one computer behind the network regardless of how many you have.

These tips will not make your home network indestuctible but again the more the locks on the door the better secure you are.

NVidia's 9800GTX vs Radeon HD 4850

Nvidia 9800 GTX and ATI HD 4850 go head to head in bench marking done by PC Perspective. Nvidias 9800GTX vs ATIs HD 4850 see who wins this street fight and who is left on the ground in a bloody heap.

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The top tweaks for Windows Vista
Brought to you by PCPitstop. The best tweaks for Windows Vista

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How to install Windows Vista
No do not break out the bible and start reading "Revelations" about the part that says "When James doest expell unto the masses how to install Vista into thine computer. The end will surely be at hand" Because it is not there.

I did how ever come to terms with the fact that someday I will actually have to know. So here it is kiddies, explained in full detail. How to install Vista on raid. (Cue scary music) So turn down the lights and grab that popcorn, curl up with your favorite blankie after you make sure the all the windows and doors are locked.

Click here to read the horror story "How to install Windows Vista".

Computer cases reviewed
Toms hardware takes a long look at several cases. See which one is the best for the money.

Read the full story here

Intel Core 2 Duo E7200: The new kid on the block is budget King.
Take the highly succesfull and burning fast E8400 or the E8200 or any one of the E8000 series of cpu. Hack mangle and shred it into a chip called the Wolfdale-3M and what do you get? Another lighting fast cpu based on the 45nm Wolfdale. The Wolfdale-3M is just another wolf in wolves clothing. With a level 2 cache of 3 MB, a frontside bus of 1066 MHz and selling at $130, this chip will prove worthy of the Wolfdale name. Plus it overclocks more then Jose Canseco on steroids. People are claiming clock speeds of more then 3.60 Mhz.

Read the full story here

Intel tell's NVidia and SLI to take a hike.
This is actually a couple stories in one. The first being that Anandtech.com has the Nehalem processors. With a 20-50% increase in speed over the Penryn core (The last core to come out such the E8400) and only a 10% increase in heat this core is fast looking like the Big Brown of the chip cores. Just think a scant two years AMD had opened a can Whoopass all over Intel. When I went to an Intel meeting in Southfield Mi in the summer of 2006 to introduce the new Core 2 Dou, I admit I had some serious reservations about how much faster it would be then AMD's offerings. Please pass the salt, it makes the crow go down easier.

Read the Anandtech article here.

Now comes the crapper. Intel is not giving NVidia permission at this time to make the NForce chipset for the new Nehalem processors. Now I say at this time but the article I will refer you too does not. I cannot believe that Intel would alienate the masses by not offering up it's latest and greatest to the best chipset ever made. But then maybe Intel feels it really will make more money by offering it's own chipset but as far as I know it has no SLI or anything for running dual video cards. Though I have read it has a new GPU using trace technology but that is down the road. There is currently no games that use trace technology so this is not some ting that we will be seeing anytime soon.

Read the full article here.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 installing vulnerable flash.
Windows Xp Service Pack is installing an older vulnerable version of of the flash player. To get the newest and secure version you need to Macromedias website.

Read the full story here

Windows XP Service Pack 3 problems and fixes

Registry corruption, vanishing restore points, AMD Asus A8N 32SLI Deluxe "Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer" are just a few of the problems with Windows XP Service Pack 3. PC Pitstop has taken a look at these and many more problems and fixs.

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Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP

I am a Microsoft Certified Partner (well most people would say I am certifiable) and today I received an email stating that Microsoft would stop selling the retail product of Windows XP on June 30 2008. However it will remain in the mainstream support policy till April 14 2009. Then it will fall under the extended support till 2014. So you have another six long years before they stop supporting Windows XP.

Of course in the same email they were talking up Windows Vista but I still have yet to make the switch. Given the fact that the support for XP will last longer then I thought. Maybe I will not have to bother with Vista as rumors of Windows 7 coming out in a year or two are running rampant.

If any of you remember the old web site, I was one of the early adaptors for XP having received it at a Microsoft/Intel meeting in Southfield Mi.. I went and installed it on my pc that very night. Everything promptly went to hell in a hand basket after that. My printer and scanner would not work and gadzooks.......many of my games would not work. I pissed and moaned like a catholic priest who had no altar boys, for a week after trying to get acclimated to the damn thing. After a week of finding drivers and reading forums for fixes, everything started to work. Microsoft is not completely to blame for this..... Did I really just say that????? Much of it depends also on the software and hardware makers for their support. Eventual XP turned into a good OS to use.

Things for Vista would take time also I reasoned in one of my earlier writings but I did not think they would take this long. But again it is not all upon the men in Redmond Washington. The work around for Sound Blaster in some games was asinine. The extremes needed just to get sound in CoD2 were terrible and then it did not work some times. This is both Microsoft and Sound Blaster fault.

So buy up XP kiddies if you plan on building another system in the next 5 years. Stock pile it like food during a raging winter. Meanwhile I am going to www.newegg.com to buy two hard drives to put in a Raid 0 so I can dual boot between XP and ugh Vista.

GPU vs. CPU Upgrade: Extensive Tests
Tom's Hardware puts the question "Processor or graphic card upgrade. Which is faster?" Well after extensive testing, they have come up with an answer.

Read the full story here.

Bioshock is coming to Playstation 3
Bioshock is an awesome game and I recommend it to all. Now it is coming to the Playstation 3.

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Details on Windows XP Service Pack 3 reboots
It seems that Hewlett Packard computers with AMD CPU's are most likely to have problems with Service Pack 3. Also seems to be a problem with the Asus A8N32-SLI motherboard and rebooting. Displaying an error code of "STOP:0x000000A5" after installing SP3, people have been using a USB drive to correct the problem.

Read the full story here.

50 tips for Windows XP and Vista.

Fixes to make Windows Xp and Windows Vista run faster.

Read the full article here.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 brings a whole new set of problems

It seems that Windows XP Service Pack 3 is having problems from random reboots to installs completely failing. I have not installed it yet as I always wait to see what issues there will be on service packs. Problems with service packs are nothing new and should really be expected for some. There is just simply to many hardware and software configurations out there for this to go smoothly for everyone.

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Secure your home router

It never ceases to amaze me how clueless some people are about thier privacy. They buy a shredder to shred their do*****ents or they have fits about showing thier ID to a clerk when presenting a check. I know that is another story. The fact remains though that people are tighter with social security numbers and bank info then Bush was with money and response time to Katrina victims.

But yet when they fire up that wireless router to answer email while they sitting on their porcelain throne adding to the brown trout population. They could not be more exposed then if someone tore down that bathroom wall.

I can sit on my front porch and access no less four wireless networks. No encryption and the default username and password in the admin log in. Secure your wirless and wired networks people. I live on a lake and have taken my boat with my laptop out only to be bombarded with dozens of unsecured wireless networks. A nefarious person could do some very bad things with that much network access.

You may think that no one cares or that your out in the middle of nowhere but guess again. I travel with my notebook by car. As do more people then you think or people with smartphone. It is nothing to pull along the side of the road in the vicinity, not in front of your house but maybe as faraway as 200 yards and logon to your network to check my email. Secure those networks folks.

Also a recent article I read pointed out something new in that people are placing malware in the routers themselves. This would give access to not one but all the computers on your network.

Read more here on malware for your router.

For tips on securing your home network then read on.

Posted by: jim on Friday, June 27 @ 21:09:16 EDT (8 reads)
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NVidia's 9800GTX vs Radeon HD 4850

Posted by: jim on Wednesday, June 25 @ 14:25:08 EDT (7 reads)
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The top tweaks for Windows Vista

Brought to you by PCPitstop. The best tweaks for Windows Vista

Read the full story here

Posted by: jim on Wednesday, June 25 @ 13:47:38 EDT (5 reads)
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How to install Windows Vista

No do not break out the bible and start reading "Revelations" about the part that says "When James doest expell unto the masses how to install Vista into thine computer. The end will surely be at hand" Because it is not there.

I did how ever come to terms with the fact that someday I will actually have to know. So here it is kiddies, explained in full detail. How to install Vista on raid. (Cue scary music) So turn down the lights and grab that popcorn, curl up with your favorite blankie after you make sure the all the windows and doors are locked.

Click here to read the horror story "How to install Windows Vista".

Posted by: jim on Wednesday, June 25 @ 13:34:18 EDT (5 reads)
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Computer cases reviewed

Toms hardware takes a long look at several cases. See which one is the best for the money.

Read the full story here

Posted by: jim on Sunday, June 22 @ 12:18:57 EDT (5 reads)
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Intel Core 2 Duo E7200: The new kid on the block is budget King.

Take the highly succesfull and burning fast E8400 or the E8200 or any one of the E8000 series of cpu. Hack mangle and shred it into a chip called the Wolfdale-3M and what do you get? Another lighting fast cpu based on the 45nm Wolfdale. The Wolfdale-3M is just another wolf in wolves clothing. With a level 2 cache of 3 MB, a frontside bus of 1066 MHz and selling at $130, this chip will prove worthy of the Wolfdale name. Plus it overclocks more then Jose Canseco on steroids. People are claiming clock speeds of more then 3.60 Mhz.

Read the full story here

Posted by: jim on Friday, June 13 @ 13:36:54 EDT (10 reads)
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Intel tell's NVidia and SLI to take a hike.

This is actually a couple stories in one. The first being that Anandtech.com has the Nehalem processors. With a 20-50% increase in speed over the Penryn core (The last core to come out such the E8400) and only a 10% increase in heat this core is fast looking like the Big Brown of the chip cores. Just think a scant two years AMD had opened a can Whoopass all over Intel. When I went to an Intel meeting in Southfield Mi in the summer of 2006 to introduce the new Core 2 Dou, I admit I had some serious reservations about how much faster it would be then AMD's offerings. Please pass the salt, it makes the crow go down easier.

Read the Anandtech article here.

Now comes the crapper. Intel is not giving NVidia permission at this time to make the NForce chipset for the new Nehalem processors. Now I say at this time but the article I will refer you too does not. I cannot believe that Intel would alienate the masses by not offering up it's latest and greatest to the best chipset ever made. But then maybe Intel feels it really will make more money by offering it's own chipset but as far as I know it has no SLI or anything for running dual video cards. Though I have read it has a new GPU using trace technology but that is down the road. There is currently no games that use trace technology so this is not some ting that we will be seeing anytime soon.

Read the full article here.

Posted by: jim on Friday, June 06 @ 13:41:10 EDT (20 reads)
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 installing vulnerable flash.

Windows Xp Service Pack is installing an older vulnerable version of of the flash player. To get the newest and secure version you need to Macromedias website.

Read the full story here

Posted by: jim on Friday, June 06 @ 12:31:01 EDT (14 reads)
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 problems and fixes

Posted by: jim on Wednesday, June 04 @ 23:28:34 EDT (20 reads)
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Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP

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