Category: Geekery

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Buh-bye, Avast!

So, remember how I installed Avast! antivirus software a few days ago? I’m ditching it. I’m returning…

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On the nature of viruses and anti-virus software

In yesterday’s post, I talked about my latest adventure with three different anti-virus solutions. I mentioned that…

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Anti-Virus Software

Fahim is constantly trying out different software. The last couple or so weeks, he’s been on an…

Posted in Geekery Sri Lanka

What is your bandwidth speed?

We have internet through SLT, and we’re supposed to have download speeds of 512 Kbps and upload…

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Kitten Cannon

For you sick kitten haters out there – and you know who you are cough Fahim cough,…

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The problem with forwarded emails

You know those forwards your aunt Helen or best friend Rob sends you? Sometimes they’re sweet and…

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Where do spammers get your email addy anyway?

The general assumption seems to start with you, the generic, nonspecific you, signing up for a newsletter…

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On spam, and no, I’m not talking about that canned boiled pig product

First question, which really has nothing to do with possible solutions, is how you quantify a lot?…

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Blog aggregation… Like it or not…

Your blog could be showing up on another site without you even knowing it. Consider ChronicNews. They…

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Eavesdropping the agoraphobic’s way

I laughed when I read this blog entry about sites for eavesdroppers and then followed the links……

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Fahim’s Wobbler Army

When we went grocery shopping a week ago at Arpico, we picked up two of the extra…

Posted in Geekery Weird Stuff

Organic Art

There’s a cool little flash thingie that you can plug a URL into and it’ll create a…

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More on Paranoia, AKA Data Backups

If you haven’t already, please read this article this article on backups. There has been some publicity…

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Fluffy

Back when I was in university, I took a Zoology course. Had to dissect a cat, which,…

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The Frozen North

One person’s comment about Ice Highways in the frozen north of Canada and the US: I think…

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More on data backups . . .

In all honesty, I have my autosave set to one minute.  I have a very, very low…

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Data Backups

I’m gonna get all geekie and anal on everyone here.  I’m also going to preface the rest…