Walmart have been selling their Everex PC for a while now, and they’re currently priced quite reasonably at $130. It features a 1.5 GHz Via Technologies C7-D processor, 512 MB of DDR2 RAM and a 80 GB hard disk drive. The gOS (good operea…

Remember the impact the Y2K bug had? Well there’s a similar problem “just around the corner” for UNIX-based programs and UNIX-like operating systems. When storing dates, UNIX uses a 4-byte integer to represent the nu…

Many people think of Netcat as the Swiss army knife of TCP/IP. Although often used for nefarious purposes, Netcat can also be used for good. Using Netcat we can easily create a backdoor to any machine running Windows. All you have to do is perf…

How Not To Speed Up Vista Boot Time
If you are looking for tips on how to speed up boot time for Vista – the following is how not to do it! Back in July 2008, there was a hoax doing the rounds that involved the following procedure:

I don’t know much about Google Wave, other than it’s

an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration…

but I do know that this morning I received an invitation to preview it. Microsoft are also clamouring to domina

The LCD screen is quite fragile compared to its more robust (and ancient) couterpart: the CRT (cathode ray tube). You’d be surprised at how little effort it takes to scratch an LCD screen (yes, this is what I do on those cold lonely nigh…

In the context of computer security, a brute force attack is a particular strategy used to break your lovingly crafted password. This is the most widely used method of cracking passwords and it involves running through all the possible per…