October 21, 2007
For all those gamers out there (of which I am not) I am sure you know what I am talking about when I mention Counter Strike. From what I can tell, it is a multi-player strategic war game (1st person, shooter) and for many, a way to spent countless hours.
NavyCS CounterStrike - run a 15 person Counterstrike 1.6 gaming server with many custom maps not found elsewhere. They run a tight ship to ensure that the undesirables elements and hackers are kept away.
Perhaps your area of interest is in the graphical design side of thing? If so they also have a fairly extensive image gallery where you can upload your graphic files for others to view - requires user registration.
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October 17, 2007
With the maturity of the internet and world wide acceptance comes a number of problems. Spam (junk email), pop-up ads, spyware, and viruses, not to mention all the unsavory sites that you just don’t want your children to look at.
The widespread availability and affordability of fast internet including broadband, wireless and cable now also means that you will probably have a permanently available connection to the internet.
This permanent connection, if not safeguarded can be another source of problems. If you don’t have a properly configured firewall installed to protect your network you are not only putting your personal details at risk but also inviting the hackers to utilize your bandwidth (at your expense) for perhaps more sinister deeds.
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October 10, 2007
Ever needed a Lawyer? If you haven’t needed one yet chances are that at some stage in your life you will. Perhaps you are buying or selling a house? You need to have a will drawn up? Or, you have a police matter that needs to be sorted out?
Often, it is the smaller Law Firms that can offer a personal and practical solution to your issues. Sometimes you are just a number with the bigger firms and don’t get the attention you deserve.
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October 8, 2007
If you are anything like me you will have lots of different user accounts and passwords for lots of different purposes. As a website developer my problem is probably worse than the average internet user, as I can have multiple different username/password combination pairs for a single website (Control Panel, FTP, database, CMS, etc…).
In the past I have tended to set a complex base password and use a variation of that for various accounts. This is fine and works well for a hand full of accounts. But, once your account numbers increase this becomes almost impossible to remember. Especially for those account which you only access occasionally.
You could write your passwords down or keep a spreadsheet of them. Although, this really defeats the purpose as neither method is particularly secure. What I have found that works well for me is to keep all my accounts (except my financial ones) in a password manager. Using a single strong password I can secure all my accounts.
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September 23, 2007
Forgive me if I seem a little biased here, this is the website of my 15 year old daughter Lucy. She has started to show a keen interest in photography so it was about time that I set up a website for her to start to show off her work.
The website is more of a learning tool for Lucy so that she can measure her achievements as she learns about photography. Since upgrading my camera a few months ago I have given her my old Olympus E-300 twin lens kit Digital SLR to use.
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