My Computer can get to be a little over-crowded very easily. When you plug-in a jump drive Windows will automatically assign that drive a letter somewhere between D and H. Well, let's say you have a: Floppy Drive (A) Hard drive (C) CD-Burner (D) DVD-Burner (E) Then you also have some mapped drives to server shares: Group files (G) Home directory (H) That pretty much leaves F: … [Read more...]
What I’m looking for in a Knowledge Base
I am looking for a Knowledge Base infrastructure for our IT department for a few reasons. 1.) Our documentation is all over the place: FAQs, forums, documents on a server share, this blog, and people's brains. I'd really like to unify it in one location. 2.) FAQs are going the way of the past. They only highlight the frequently asked questions. We all know there are plenty … [Read more...]
Firefox3 RC1 released
RC1 for Firefox 3 was just released. I figured at this point it was worth giving a shot. I'm usually not all about jumping into the Beta scene because it's always a cost-benefit analysis of new features versus stability. RC1 is stable but a few of my add-ons don't work yet (Foxmarks and TabMixPlus are the big ones). Overall, I have to really say that this is a worthwhile … [Read more...]
PeerGuardian – Blocking out the bad guys
PeerGuardian is designed to block the IP addresses of those individuals that might want to do you harm and prevent you from accidentally or intentionally connecting to them or them to you. Advertisements, spyware, government, and education ranges as well as IP blocklists that typically contain those RIAA/MPAA trolls or MediaDefender folks. Even if you're doing nothing bad, it … [Read more...]
Tor: anonymity on the internet?
The Internet has a lot of downsides, in my opinion, due to its mostly-anonymous aspect: flamers, trolls, spammers, bots, and 50 year old guys posing as hot 18 year old girls. Then again, the anonymity of the Internet has a lot of benefits: bolder discourse through text than in person, broader whistle-blowing, vigilante software development, protection from those that don't … [Read more...]