Sure, you’ve seen this orange icon everywhere, but what does it mean? I’m glad I asked. This graphic represents a method of organizing and publishing structured, syndicated content into what’s known as an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed. RSS feeds make life easier, especially when your bookmarks reach an unmanageable point, advertisements become overbearing, or […]

Blogs are important because they’re an easy, effective way to exercise free speech, communicate, and publish useful information. Everyone on the internet has the ability to blog, and individuals tend to have unique thoughts regarding particular subjects, so what better way to share these thoughts than blogging? Communication, in addition to useful contribution by intelligent […]

Fellow geek goozbach came up with a detailed how-to explaining how to automatically mount and unmount your iPod as any non-root user. This obviously applies to Linux, more specifically, Ubuntu and Fedora Core 6 as tested by goozbach. Here’s an excerpt from his site: I’ve had an 8GB iPod for a while now. I haven’t bothered, until […]

Execute The Simple Process and Begin the Path to Enlightenment Windows user’s have a fantastic little file simply named hosts. To prevent unwanted ads in your browser (Opera, IE, Firefox, or any others), simply open: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts with your favorite text editor (notepad, pspad, ultraedit, etc). Once your hosts file is open, paste the entire contents of: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt into it. Save […]

Comcast is slowly training their loyal customers to embrace what many are calling the end of the free, neutral, Internet. Several individuals, myself included, continuously experience a diminishing quality of service from Comcast. A couple examples include: DNS servers randomly become inaccessible, selling their customer’s phone number(s), and employing phone technicians that simply refuse to […]

GnuPG is a completely free implementation of the Open PGP standard defined in RFC2440.txt. The folks at Gpg4win made an excellent Windows port that allows you to use the standard in almost any way imaginable. This particular article will explain how to use gpg4win with the intention of encrypting email communications. The steps mentioned here […]

A local burger joint imperatively requests drive through customers to, “Remove your Halloween mask at this time for customer and team member safety.” A logical explanation to justify why you’re driving around with a Halloween mask on your face may seem impossible to compile, but what’s even more confusing is the logic behind this theory: […]

The wonderful organization I’m employed with decided Microsoft’s Office Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 was the ideal solution for a flexible, easy to maintain, secure, internal content management system. Oh how wrong they were. Last week I was asked to add a list of known file extensions our Exchange server actively filters and removes from emails. […]