The Gadget Show Campaign For Free wifi.

Well I keep meaning to blog about this but keep forgetting finally I remembered!

But if you watch “The Gadget Show” on five you will know about their free wifi campaign in the UK for free wifi, I think this is a brilliant idea they have done it in a couple of places in the US and it has helped poor communities to build up their community.

But in this campaign I can see a lot of problems for example carrying your laptops around with you in busy areas can lead to much more problems with anti social behaviour as you will see a increase in crime rates, which is already a massive problem.

It will confine the war drivers though as they will just stay in towns sniffing people’s traffic but could this also lead to a new generation of hackers?

I have signed up to this campaign and I hope all the readers out their reading my blog will also sign up for free WiFi.

I would love to hear your comments on this as I’m not too sure about the subject in hand as it could be a very dangerous idea to unleash.

Vista, well too me it sounds like a load of hot air.

Lets start off from looking at Windows 95/98.

Windows 95: It was a break through in computer operating systems, I still have 95 running on a machine somewhere you compare it to any before that and you will see that it was unbelievable at how good it was it practically lead the way to our more modern operating systems like XP and for this windows will never be forgotten.

Windows 98/SE: I was a user of this for many many years it was very recent that I actually switched to XP maybe a year ago I was still using 98SE fabulous operating system had the 95 feel too it but with a much wider range of usage.

Windows ME: This was pretty much a failure you couldn’t see anything new about it, 98 was still loads better than ME, so nothing else I can put here really.

Windows XP: Now were getting to the big players, XP was simply amazing with its looks and many more features one of the biggest features I can think of now are “plug and play” and this was a large reason why a lot of people switched from 98.

Google Desktop

Well I’ve been playing around with Google Desktop now for the past couple of weeks to see what its like as it looked very interesting, normally I would be very picky with something like this but its completely customizable, I have the google search (for my computer) which indexes all my files (brilliant) scratch pad really handy if you haven’t got notepad running or Opera, Email this is the best one of all it will make a email bold if I haven’t read it theirs no need to click send and receive all the time or go to your inbox to check its just on the right side of the screen I love it!

GdRSS Reader if you read a couple of blogs this isn’t too bad but not something I’m bothered about having but you know if you like to keep up with all your blogs it’s a life saver.

There is loads of other brilliant gadgets out their from clocks to virtual plant pots, give it a go Google Desktop

Kubuntu V6.06.1 Review.

Here is my review on Kubuntu.

Lets start with a little bit about Kubuntu, it uses a KDE Desktop Environment which compared to Ubuntu that uses Gnome (very different).

That is the main difference between Kubuntu and Ubuntu you will also find that the programs in Kubuntu are also different but you do have a package manager allowing automatic install for the programs.

The installation: Brill if you compare this to something like Microsoft Windows installation there is a massive difference, with (K)ubuntu it is a Live CD live meaning that you can run it straight from your CD-ROM instead of running it from your hard drive so its kind of like a way of letting people test it before they install it, but with this you can surf the net while your installing (K)ubuntu to your hard drive.

Now comparing this to Windows XP it looks very ugly when installing it, and you can’t do anything at the same time, so you have to sit their for 2 hours or so waiting for it to install.

So the installation i would give 4/5.

Removing password from windows.

Well very recently I’ve lost my password a couple of times so i needed some way of getting on my windows partition, so i can use my programs!

So i went hunting the forums until i came across a brilliant boot CD, no it isn’t Ultimate Boot CD its Hiren’s boot CD when you download it, its very simple so follow what you need it for!

But this brought me up to thinking about how easily people can physically bypass your windows passwords, i thought putting a password on my BIOS set up and make it boot the hard drive first but all BIOS’ are made with a master password built in unless you get a BIOS that has never been heard of before your pretty much stuck from physical attacks.

Please if you know a way to stop physical attacks please tell me in the comments section i will be very interested in it!