GlennF points out some of the coolest tricks, if you're into wireless toys.

Turn a $150 Orinoco RG-1100 into a $300 Apple AirPort Base Station, for free: regular reader Ben Finkelstein forwarded a post from a Mac list in which a reader notes that Agere's Orinoco RG-1100 is essentially the same device as the Apple AirPort Base Station, but at half the price. The post offered these instructions (I've cleaned them up), which I am sure void your warranty and put you into a special place in purgatory if the update fails. I warned you!

We need our wireless here, since it allows SHE and yours truly to surf simultaneously. And yes, some days we are bed-webbers, thankyouverymuch....

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Unfortunately, I know I'll be needing this as a reference sometime...

cgisecurity.com Author: Zenomorph - Fingerprinting Port 80 Attacks: A look into web server, and web application attack signatures: Part Two..

Port 80 is the standard port for websites, and it can have a lot of different security issues. These holes can allow an attacker to gain either administrative access to the website, or even the web server itself. This second paper was written to help the average administrator and developer to have a better understanding of the types of threats that exist, along with how to detect them.

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So one of the precious family heirlooms was given to the mancub for his own use a while ago (original Pentium 90, running Windoze 3.1 -- hey, he's three and a half and doesn't have to sweat y2k date issues), and I found a bargain muddymedia CD-ROM yesterday that'll still run on that vintage iron and it had some of his current favorite movie stars cartoon characters in it (the dinosaurs who sing a few times per movie, and no, not that purple one).

Anyway, the mancub pulls me into his room, saying something bad happened. An error message about the D drive being unreadable is onscreen. I pop out the disc, reseat it and send it back in, then click the retry button. Things then begin to proceed again onscreen. The mancub grabs the mouse, and says "You can go back to what you were doing..." (exact quote) and then proceeds with his game. No thank you, no eye contact, either.

*puffing out paternal chest* My boy's gonna be in upper management someday.

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