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Cool Tools: Networx – Track Your Network Bandwidth Usage

Laz — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:34:53 +0000

I wanted to let everyone know about a new tool that I found that has, coincidentally, been added to our Cool Tools list. It’s called Networx and it is a supremo wonderful tool for monitoring your bandwidth. Now, this tool has more features than I can list here so I will list some of my favorites [...]

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Cool Tools: Hard Disk Sentinel

Laz — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:04:57 +0000

Recently I found a tool for Windows and Linux PCs that provides a long overdue service, and that is hard disk monitoring. Now, I don’t mean monitoring like some tools where it just looks at free space or temperature and that’s it, this tool set looks at everything you can think of. Yes it checks [...]

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Sharing too much online can be bad!

Laz — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:51:00 +0000

I found a great article that goes over some of the dangers of social networks and users who share too much of their personal data with the public. Here: “Online oversharing can be downright unsafe, as an app making headlines for being creepy and undermining the privacy of women shows. A geo-location based app called [...]

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A funny thing happened on the way to the insurance office …

Laz — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:54:21 +0000

I am sure that everyone has seen the Progressive insurance commercials that feature the sort of grungy looking dude with a mustache and almost unkempt hair. He is the one that is always out there throwing money at people or buying gas and paying tolls or what not. It is supposedly from all of the [...]

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Who’s Been Viewing My Facebook Page?

Laz — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:34:03 +0000

I thought I would put up a quick post on this topic because I keep seeing it make the rounds on Question/Answer sites like Askeville, Yahoo and the like. It’s interesting to see the answers that some people provide, from it cannot be done to it can just do this or buy my special software [...]

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Updated Firefox Must Have Extensions

Laz — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:59:45 +0000

Just a quick note to let visitors know that I have updated the Must Have Firefox Extensions page in the Library, so feel free to check it out and see what we have down as the Firefox extensions that you have to have. Sure there are lots of others to get too, but you pretty [...]

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New Nav System In Effect

Laz — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:27:57 +0000

This blog is my baby, and even though I don’t get to post every day, I am always on the lookout for good information to put here. I firmly believe in quality over quantity. So far, this site has been around for over five years. It gets hundreds of thousands of visits per month, and [...]

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More Hacking Without The Slashing

Laz — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 05:07:33 +0000

It seems that earlier this week (8/5/2012 – 8/11/2012) the network and I am sure some servers at Blizzard, the game company behind most notably World of Warcraft got hacked. A list of games that are either played or are accessible online are at the end of this post for your reference in order to [...]

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A little history for all us starnix guys (and gals) out there

Laz — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:56:10 +0000

If you spend any amount of time working with or administering UNIX and/or Linux servers, especially UNIX, you should be familiar with the text editor ‘vi’ and some commands like ‘sed’ and ‘awk’. If you have been around a while, or had the good(?) fortune of working on some old(er) systems, you might even remember [...]

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SPAM ALERT!

Laz — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:37:30 +0000

Like everyone else I get a ton of SPAM in my inbox, even with all of the SPAM fighting tools I can find and use. Usually, as a last line of defense I use a product called Mailwasher to catch anything that gets past server filters, but we’ll talk about Mailwasher later. This post is [...]

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