Thanks to Wireless connections and wrongly configured routers, using your neighbour’s bandwidth has become something common nowadays. However, this kind of internet access relies on finding a strong wireless signal near your house, and the help of a cantenna can significantly increase your chances of finding come usable hotspot by widening the area you [...]
Archive for August, 2006
Napkin laf
25Aug06I love this theme for Java. Maybe a bit caotic, but cool…
Battery recall
25Aug06My battery has been recalled. Apple will send me a new battery in the next 4 or 6 weeks and I will have to return my current battery in a prepaid envelope. They have done this beacuse some batteries have exploded while users were using their laptops, leaving them a bit ungry with Apple… Although [...]
Security models
24Aug06We can find a comparison of the Mac OS X and Windows security models here.
One of the things I find more interesting is how features for avoiding hacking and cracking in Windows have led to big security threats. By attaching a debugger to a running program, hackers have been able to bypass license checks or [...]
