There be Spyware here, Captain!
There be Spyware here, Captain!
The ships bell had just sounded the dogwatch as Captain Skag began to check his email. He had just began to read his favorite E-zine, “Pirates gone wild” when his first mate burst into the cabin. “Captain, a dark ship approaches!” He cried. The captain, after running up on deck, examined the ship with his spyglass. “Shiver me hard drives” he bellowed as he saw the lay of her jib. “Shes a wardriver! ” (Note of historical Interest, a Wardriver is a term used to describe a way of searching for unsecure wireless networks.) “They be after plundering information on the ships server! Quick me mateys, prepare to repel boarders.” The crew scrambled to turn their laptops off while the Captain rushed to turn the wireless router off. Up on deck, the crew watched as the dark ship faded into the night. The Captain had no sooner settled back at his computer when again the cabin door burst open, this time it was the cook. “Blimey Captain, all my recipes files are gone!” This was bad news because the cooks famous secret recipe for chile con carne was highly sought after since winning 1st place at the Pirates ball last year. Thank the Kraken we have our backups” the Captain growled. The cook, cursing, left. Well, back to my email the captain thought. He pushed the send/receive button on his email client. “Blow me down” he bellowed, (Pirate Captains bellow a lot) “Whats all this SPAM mail doing in my inbox?” This was getting as back as a case of scurvy. As he sat, his rage boiling, he became aware of a lot of yelling coming from the crews quarters. “Now what” he cursed as he made his way forward. Upon entering the crew area he was assailed by a thunderous din of curses. (Pirates curse a lot) The Spainiard was yelling he couldn’t get his new game, “Pirates Revenge ” to load. The Italian couldn’t get into his stock portfolio. (Yes pirates have retirement plans too). The others were drowned out by the first mate yelling about his Blog being Hacked. As he surveyed the carnage, the captain noticed one of the crewman sitting calmly, using his laptop with apparently no problems. Bellowing loudly for quiet, he asked the crewman who he now remembered came from the land of Unix, why he was not upset. He looked up, and said “Why Captain, I’ve got a AntiVirus program along with good AntiSpyware and a reliable Firewall. I’m protected from brute force attacks, Phishing emails and drive by downloads.” He went on to say that it looked like the ships server was accessed through the wireless router, which was not secured with WEP (wired/wireless equivalent privacy). “Arrrgg”, he bellowed, the IT dogs back at the Island hideaway had told him all was peachy with the network when they sailed to pilage and plunder. The crewman whose name was Billy said he could get things ship shape by giving the other crewman the CD’s of his AntiSpyware, AntiVirus and his 3rd party Firewall…. for a price! “Aye,” the Captain replied wit a feeling of dread, “Whats your price?” Soon all onboard were back online and secure. Billy had his pockets stuffed with pieces of eight and of course, was wearing the Captains hat, looking mighty pleased with his bargaining skills. The Captain headed back to his cabin, worried that mutiny may be afoot. He had heard Billy telling the crew about those cursed Macs! The lesson learned here was obvious; You need to secure your network. AntiVirus and AntiSpyware is a must, So is a reliable Firewall. Anything less, you might as well be walking the plank, Matey! Arrrrgggg! About the Author: Doug Woodall has a website at http://www.spywarebiz.com There he provides free information and recommended products to combat Spyware, Viruses and other Online Nasties.
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Satellite TV on Your Computer?
Now that the web has evolved why should we pay monthly for a couple of hundred channels when we are now able to get 3000 + channels streamed live to your pc? So how good is internet TV? The smile answer to this question is - very good. I personally only found out about how much internet TV had to offer when I was recently looking for a John Candy movie. I only pay for basic subscription from my cable service and feel they charge far too much to get all their movie channels, most of the same content can be found via internet TV channels. As channels come from all over the world and more and more people migrating to the US from Mexico, to the UK from Poland etc.,TV on your PC enables you to watch TV in your own language anywhere. Sports channels from all over the globe are also shown. So, does this mark the end of Sky and cable? Not likely. Maybe in another 20 years there may be a decline as the technology becomes more widespread. The bottom line is that TV of your PC has so much more to offer, TV, music, MP3 downloads and more, all from over 77 countries! Rupert Murdoch may have his work cut out to stay ahead because in may option the internet is taking over world wide media. For example yesterday I was able to watch Aljazeera TV from Iran which shows the Iraq war live. I’ve recently been learning my children Spanish so now I let them watch children’s TV in Spanish! - a great learning tool. The software I downloaded only cost me a one time fee, I’ve even put it on my partners laptop, as you can probably guess we are both very impressed. The link to the site I downloaded the software from is www.worldwide-satellitetv.com 3000 TV Channels on Your PC <a href="http://www.worldwide-satellitetv.com">Click Here</a>
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Let Your Drawing Respond Faster in ZWCAD
Processing speed of CAD software is one of the most concerned issues of every user. Fast speed can be achieved directly by either software or hardware upgrade. In case of ordinary PC configuration, how can we further raise the speed even without software update? Here are some tips: 1. If you frequently specify the color or linetype for certain entities instead of using Bylayer or Byblock features, data will increase dramatically in the drawing, and it will take more time to process these data. It is suggested to create adequate and appropriate layers to which entities of different meanings or properties can be assigned respectively, so that the option of Bylayer and Byblock can help to reduce the amount of data stored. 2. If there are lots of layers in a drawing, some of which contain complicated entities seldom used, then you can freeze these layers, so that they would not regenerate with other layers, and result in processing time saving. 3. Hatch (Fill) is a kind of entity occupying much RAM. Too much hatches would significantly drag down the processing speed. To maintain high speed: (1) Do the hatching at the last step, so that there are no hatches affecting the speed during previous drafting steps. (2) Assign all hatches to a single or some specific layers and freeze some or all of them if possible. Then they will not regenerate with other entities. (3) In the Config dialogue box, select the Display tab and check the option Not display hatch while zooming. Entities such as Solid, Donut and Trace have another kind of fill. They can be displayed faster by setting OFF for FILLMODE. 4. Text also has influence on the speed of ZOOM, REDRAW and REGEN. Simplifying the display mode of text could help to increase the speed to a large extent. (1) Use a simple text font during the preliminary drafting work, and then replace this font with desired ones at the final stage when there are no more modifications to other graphic entities. (2) Use QTEXT to enable quick display of text. After the command is activated, boundary frames of text areas are displayed instead of text themselves. 5. In the case that we have to insert raster images: (1) Go to the Config dialogue box, select the Display tab and check the option Pan and zoom with raster & OLE, if it is not necessary to view raster images while doing PAN and ZOOM. (2) Use the command IMAGEQUALITY to choose a low quality display mode, when we don’t need to view images with high quality. 6. When REGENMODE is set as ON, ZWCAD will regenerate graphics automatically after executing some commands. Turning the mode off can help to save the time spent on automatic regeneration of graphics. 7. Entities often turn into dash line type for the purpose of highlighting when they are selected for modification. Sometimes such highlights take lots of time to display. So you can think of closing HIGHLIGHT if necessary. Not all methods might suit each specific case, but they do help if applied properly. When you get familiar with these features, drafting work could never be a difficulty in terms of speed, and you may find it easy and convenient to use ZWCAD in any situations. About ZWCAD As the flagship product of ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd., ZWCAD is a powerful CAD solution, which is highly compatible with DWG format. ZWCAD meets the needs of broad-based target groups of 2D/3D design industry, including architecture, engineering, construction, mechanics, manufacturing and electronics industries. So far, it has fast become the leading brand in China’s CAD industry and now competes successfully in over 65 countries, with 100,000 users throughout the world. (C) Copyright 2008 ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.Owen Zi is author of article written on ZWCAD. He is Director of Overseas Department of ZWSOFT. For more information, please visit: <a href="http://www.zwcad.org">www.zwcad.org</a> or contact ZWCAD team at sales@zwcad.com.
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