Tracreoute.org for BGP info. "Looking Glass" and BGP Route Servers to get detailed info about traces - take the Autonomous System (AS) number and look it up on the ARIN site to find the AS provider.
Rebuild the TCP/IP stack in WinXP by opening a command prompt and typing netsh int ip reset filename where the filename is a new log file you created that will detail which Registry keys were modified.
Transparent Screen Lock provides unauthorized input by password protection for WinNT/2K/XP but still allows you to see what's on the screen.
Evidently there's a DNS quirk in Win2k and XP. IE caches even failed http requests, so when the request is re-sent and should normally come back successful, it still shows as failed! And clicking "Refresh" does not work! There are ways to clear this up, of course. You can reboot (clears all cached items), type the command "ipconfig /flushdns", turn off the DNS Client service altogether (not recommended), or hack the Registry. A script that does this is on The Screensavers' site. (Scroll about two-thirds of the way down.)
While searching the Web for something using www.Google.com and you want a specific file type only, type in the search box "filetype:", the file's extension, a space, then the thing you're looking for. For example, to look for history-related things only in Adobe Acrobat's PDF format, type (without quotation marks) "filetype:pdf history". Other file extension examples would be "mp3", "exe", and "doc".
Hardwarehell.com has a section for computer help on all subjects
eWeek magazine's wrap-up of their OpenHack lab in their December 2, 2002 issue also said that Waco was one of the largest attack points with over 4500 separate attacks!
Interviewed some folk for our intern position last week. I asked most everyone (forgot
sometimes) a last question: Someone says they can't connect and I'm not there, so what do you try to fix the problem? I tell them first about the network setup and who our ISP is. This one dude says, "Make sure all the settings are
right," and I say, "Ok, what settings exactly?" He sits there and then basically repeats himself but in
different words. I give up on getting him to elaborate and ask, "Say the computer's
settings are right, then what?" He sits there a minute and says, "Call (the ISP) and
ask what the problem is." Wow, quite a jump.
Microsoft and Unisys started an anti-Unix campaign complete with its own website (ironically initially powered by FreeBSD Unix and Apache), but all of a sudden, the site was dark. It was later back up running on Win2000 and IIS. The Unix community's response: "We Have the Way In"
Homer started an Internet company called Compuglobalhypermeganet (never specifying what exactly it did) and Comic Book Guy approached him about a faster connection. He said, "I'm interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobaud Internet connection to a 1.5 megabit fiber optic T1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that's compatible with my Token Ring Ethernet LAN configuration?" Homer stares blankly, then says, "Can I have some money now?" Of course, "kilobaud" isn't quite right and there's no such thing as "Token Ring Ethernet", but it's still cool they take the time!
Also, Homer advertises himself as the "Internet King". A few years back, a guy in Arizona called himself the "Spam King" and was profiled in Wired magazine. Not coincidentally, Homer's reading a Wired magazine issue during the episode.
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