Wireless LAN (WLAN)

Now everyone thinks their fine with completely secure but the horrible fact is your not.

I know a couple of people using WLAN that think their fine with it a couple of programs to secure it and a WEP encryption, I couldn’t help but laugh.

You can stop your newbie neighbours from stealing your wireless with a WEP encryption or something like that but your not stopping the full time hackers from stealing your bank details, so never do any important work using a wireless connection because the harsh truth is you will be hacked at some point, have a computer ready that is connected directly to the internet, for things to do with important things, but even then your not secure but its your safest bet.

Save Your Work From a Knackered Machine.

Well recently I’ve had a couple of people complaining about their pc because windows or something has come up with a error and can’t get access to it.

And most of these times you will find that they will format the hard drive, without burning a CD of all their stuff, which really ticks me off because that means I have to help them getting everything back on their computer.

The answer is backups you can setup a simple backup machine on your LAN easily using things like FreeNAS allowing you to send your files to that machine from another on your LAN.

Or the simple idea is use Linux Live to get your files back, a simple disk like Knoppix or Damn Small Linux will allow you to get access to your partitions allowing you to recover your files without logging onto windows.

A Messy Blog is an Unpopular Blog.

Okay let’s face facts you search through the web say you come to a website with ads all over the place you think nah and don’t bother reading it so just click off the page.

So thinking about that you won’t get any one clicking on your adverts because no one cares about your content because it looks awful, so why not spend a little pay a professional to design your website, try and get as much information out of them as possible about designing your website and how to market it.

You can get a professional to design a layout for around $50-$100 so what’s the harm in spending a little to make a little, think from a customers point of view.

Starting Your own Weblog

As you can see weblogs or blogs have become vastly popular over the past year, so I’m going to talk to you on how to setup your own blog.

So first we need to think of a name that we are going to call out blog so for a example we are going to use ‘Typer Tappers’

Next we need to buy a domain which can also come with a hosting plan here is a link to a list of web host’s http://wordpress.org/hosting/ if your in the UK I would recommend http://4uhosting.co.uk now I will be using 4uhosting.co.uk as my example as it supports ‘CPanel’ this allows you to install word press automatically taking all the hard work out of it.

So when you’re on CPanel you cant to click “Fantastico” this is the program that will install the script for you so in that look for word press and follow the instructions.

Now you’re all setup and ready to go, so get writing your first article!

Ubuntu (Linux)

Well I’ve been trying out Ubuntu for the past couple of days because I’m looking for a good OS to swap with Windows as I’m beginning to get bored of it, so I ordered a couple of Ubuntu live CD’s which was also a installation CD which I was very chuffed about so I could surf the net while I was installing Ubuntu which I loved.

Connecting to the internet: This was so easy it auto detected my hardware when I put the CD in it didn’t tell me or anything and I was instantly connected to the internet. So I started the installation while I was talking to a couple of my friends using ‘Gaim’ so I thought this is brilliant Microsoft should do something like this!

Configuring you’re settings: this was a really annoying part for me, I was stuck with the default setting I couldn’t go any higher I asked on Ubuntu Forum’s and it wouldn’t work, I tried it several times and I ended up with a blank screen on boot.