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Google and Your Privacy
Posted by Mumyls on May 2nd, 2009 at 8:11 am
If people fear one thing about Google, it's that Google might invade their privacy in some way. That's a natural fear. As Google creates more and more services, it can gather an increasing amount of information about you. And there are also worries that Google tracks all of your searches, and it could then easily create a personal profile of you and sell the results to the highest bidder. If you want the whole story of Google's privacy policy, head to the Google Privacy Center at www.google.com...

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Google Search Operators
Posted by Mumyls on April 28th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Google enables you to search using search operators, special words and symbols that make it easy to get search results that match as closely as possible the information for which you're looking. You can combine search operators with search terms to form a query, like this: mumyls â€“"mumyls blog" The minus sign in this search string means not, so this search would bring back pages that had the word mumyls on them but did not have the term mumyls blog on them. For the detail, these the th...

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Installing the Wireless Router
Posted by Mumyls on April 22nd, 2009 at 3:04 pm
To create a wireless home network that includes a connection to a broadband Internet connection, you need a wireless router. The router serves as the intermediary or gateway between the device supplying the broadband Internet connection (such as a DSL router or a cable modem) and your home network, which consists of the computers that want to use the Internet. The wireless router also serves as the WiFi access point for the computers on the network that are outfitted with wireless network adapte...

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Basic Guide To The Internet
Posted by Mumyls on April 19th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
The Internet is a computer network made up of thousands of networks worldwide. No one knows exactly how many computers are connected to the Internet. It is certain, however, that these number in the millions. No one is in charge of the Internet. There are organizations which develop technical aspects of this network and set standards for creating applications on it, but no governing body is in control. The Internet backbone, through which Internet traffic flows, is owned by private companies. ...

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Speed Up HTTP Requests On Internet Explorer
Posted by Mumyls on April 15th, 2009 at 4:19 am
To comply with current Internet standards, Internet Explorer limits the number of simultaneous downloads to two downloads, plus one queued download. This configuration is a function of the browser. However, as connection speeds increase, and the number of total connections that are allowed to Internet servers increase, the two-connection limit may be restrictive. Please Note: Changing the maximum number of connections beyond two is a violation of Internet standards; use at your own risk! To ...

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Caught A Virus?
Posted by Mumyls on April 14th, 2009 at 7:42 am
If you've let your guard down--or even if you haven't--it can be hard to tell if your PC is infected. Here's what to do if you suspect the worst. Heard this one before? You must run antivirus software and keep it up to date or else your PC will get infected, you'll lose all your data, and you'll incur the wrath of every e-mail buddy you unknowingly infect because of your carelessness. You know they're right. Yet for one reason or another, you're not running antivirus software, or you are but...

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Backdoors
Posted by Mumyls on April 8th, 2009 at 7:53 am
Since the early days of intruders breaking into computers, they have tried to develop techniques or backdoors that allow them to get back into the system. In this paper, it will be focused on many of the common backdoors and possible ways to check for them. Most of focus will be on Unix backdoors with some discussion on future Windows NT backdoors. This will describe the complexity of the issues in trying to determine the methods that intruders use and the basis for admin...

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Common FTP Error Codes
Posted by Mumyls on March 30th, 2009 at 10:48 am
110 Restart marker reply. In this case, the text is exact and not left to the particular implementation; it must read: MARK yyyy = mmmm where yyyy is User-process data stream marker, and mmmm server's equivalent marker (note the spaces between markers and "="). 120 Service ready in nnn minutes. 125 Data connection already open; transfer starting. 150 File status okay; about to open data connection. 200 Command okay. 202 Command not implemented, superfluous at this site. 211...

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