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It seems like every year I need to go through this exersize over and over again. The Firewall landscape seems to be like a formicating pool changing goalposts and lanscape as you watch. What was good is now deprecated and vice-versa. I used to prefer AtGuard, but then new exploits came on the scene which it did not catch (Due to some Windows low-level flaws) and the product was discontinued (and later bought by another company and defiled) Then I swote by Tiny Personal Firewall (version 2015a), and that also went the way of the dodo. Then it was Zone Alarm 5 (version 55940). Then it was Kerio Personal Firewall 4.2.3.912. And for the past year I was using Sygate Personal Firewall (which I bought) To my great dismay I have now discovered that Symantec has bought Sygate and basically deprecated the product, and having no great love for Norton/Symantec or MacAfee I started to look for alternative. These are my options now. (in order of preference) Core Force ZoneAlarm 55940 Sygate 5.6 Tiny...

Ever been at a client with Orwellian access restrictions on the internet? Why not use what they provide you to the max without cracking their security. What you will need: 1. Access/login to a linux machine with ssh running on port 80 (or 443) (See UnixShell - They're grrreat!) 2. The proxytunnel client program . Creating the tunnel: Firstly you will need to create a TCPIP tunnel through your proxy server. For my example I'm running OS X (on my shiny MacBook Pro). To do this, add the following (2 lines) to your ~/.ssh/config file: Host shell.my-host.com ProxyCommand /Users/teuton/bin/proxytunnel -N -p "local-proxy:8080" -u "proxy-user" -s "proxy-pass" -d "shell.my-host.com:443" Great! We are all set! You may need to tweak these settings depending on your local proxy server type and configuration (NTML auth etc) Now the easy part. Creating the proxy: To ssh into your machine simply type: > ssh teuton@shell.my-host.com To make...

I recently went on a trip to Japan, and was faced with a choice on a new handheld gaming device to purchase for a friend. So which is better? What are the differences? First-off, I personally own a Gameboy Advance, and I finally chose to buy the PSP. The reason for the choice was that I already owned both an iPod and a Gameboy Advance, but this friend of mine had neither... so for me the DS may have been a better choice, but only slightly. Firstly the DS: This little machine is slightly heavier than the PSP, but folds away neatly, it's more solid and resiliant, the games are cheap, load fast and can use older Advance cartridges. The screen has a huge surface and the touch screen is really nifty. The technology is way behind the PSP, but it is also about $50 less in price. So this device has a huge advantage with current game availability. It also has a good battery life (something I appreciate after my Japan trip on both my iPod and Gameboy). The PSP: This is a slick-looking device...

A bit late, but better late than never... A quick journal of my trip so far: (Times are as per locality) 5 March: 13:10 Depart from JHB About a 12 hour flight on which I did not sleep and watched many movies... 07:00 Arrive in Hong Kong On my first day there, I found my hostel first, dumped all my luggage and started walking. walk walk walk... I tried to stay awake until 11pm and got to bed pretty exhausted. I stayed in Hong Kong for three days, seeing many cool sights and also taking the time to buy a good digital camera (About R5k) Also saw and met some cool Tai-Chi people, and suffered no jet-lag. 8 March: 11:20 Fly to Tokyo. Arrived at Narita airport, picked up my JR Pass, caught a train, then a bullet train, then another train, and finally a local rapid train. I spend the first two days just eating sushi and planning my next few days... 20:00 Finally arrived at my destination... Hozumi. I was picked up at the train station by a friend of Charisse and Jason's called Sumire. 10 ...

I bought a friend of mine "The Incredibles" for Christmas. It seems he was having some trouble getting the game to run, reporting that it switched resolutions and seemingly did not want to start running at all otherwise. He is using a dual G5 desktop Apple Mac, running OS X version 10.3.5. (fully patched) It's a pretty standard machine with no additional hardware or software. The strange thing is that the official site does not even recognise that the game runs on the Mac at all! This I find pretty worrying! See: http://www.thq.com/ I've seen other people on the net having similar problems, but no solutions are forthcoming... if anyone has a solution, please post it here! One thing I have seen that is a similarity is the fact that both machines are Dual CPU machines. And as well all know, Apple's Java seems to be vulnerable to a user space system panic on dual CPU machines via some name lookup problem. (See Azureus forums) So as I know of b...

It seems a growing trend for people to get banned for low share ratios. Now I can understand how this would appeal to some people`s sense of (in)justice as there are people out there who do not understand that not sharing while you download will ultimately make you download yours slower as you supply bits to other people who would otherwise been supplied by the seeder, making it possible for you to download from open slots at the seeder. These are typlically low-intellect `kiddies` who don`t do math and then download hacked clients because they are just stupid. I agree that these people are evil. But putting a share-ratio of 0.9 and higher as mandatory is just insane. (IMHO 0.1 is the absolute maximum) Take the following example (using mathematical induction and taking values to extremes) if I limited my download to 1k/s and my upload to 25k/s (I have a 256/256 connection) my share ratio inexorably tends to go to sub-1.0. In fact, I find that only the T1 people seems to...

These options can go into the user.js file, or can be set from the 'about:config' url. (Editing the user.js file may need to be done when FireFox is not running) (Editing the about:config may require a FireFox restart) Speed-ups: user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 128); user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 48); user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 24); user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 12); // Enable pipelining: user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true); user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true); user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);