I love Thunderbird for reading emails, and keeping track of my RSS feeds. But for some reason RSS tends to become corrupted. I don’t believe it’s necessarily Thunderbird’s fault, although it seems a bit pickier about feeds that are correctly crafted then other RSS readers. A clue that there is a problem is RSS feeds [...]

An IP address is a number that identifies devices connected to a network. In short every single computer, mobile phone, printer, server, etc, connected to the Internet is assigned a unique address. Note that this is totally different then a MAC address which is unique and is only assigned to one device. IP address can [...]

Both Twitter and Facebook are facing Denial of Service (or Dos) attacks today. Twitter ended up going completely down, Facebook was able to weather the storm, although it was still a bit pokey at times. What is funny about this is how all the pundits say “their growth caused them to fail to anticipate this [...]

Originally Posted 11/20/2000. Ironically a lot of this is still useful.   Home Networking                 In the day and age of Multi-computer families, a frequent argument is, who gets to be online? The answer is simple, Modem Sharing or networking. Modem Sharing can be done one of several ways, using a regular Analog Modem [...]

Only posting here for posterity. This article was originally written Jan 1st, 2001   So you just bought that brand new AMD 1.3 gigahertz computer with all the bells and whistles. Of course after a month or two it’s all the sudden running as slow as your old computer. Luckily there are several things you [...]