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Having trouble connecting to limewire.

Originally I couldn’t connect to the internet at my house for more than 24 hours without having to reboot the modem. That problem mysteriously went away, but now my computer isn’t connecting to limewire correctly. In the last month it has successfully connected to limewire a total of 3 times. My guess is it has [...]

when redoing a system install, always install antivirus first

dammit, hour and a half worth of work down the drain
didn’t install antivirus first…then got hit with xp antivirus – which is not an antivirus program, it just looks like one
i learned my lesson
1) antivirus + newest updates (turn on firewall first also)
2) windows updates
3) then install your software etcFunny that, I always install the [...]

Apple skewered over missing DNS patch

Apple has come under fire for failing to patch the critical Domain Name System (DNS) flaw which prompted a (rest of) industry wide response earlier this month.
For anyone just back from a trip up the Amazon, the discovery of a domain spoofing by security researcher Dan Kaminsky sparked a massive patching effort [...]

CPU 100% usage

My DELL Laptop keeps going up to 100% CPU usage. I’m not sure what itis. Seems that when I close IE7, it will go down. However, the problem will come back again later.
Could it be my temps? I installed coretemp and it’s reading 77 and 79 on the cores [...]

Best firewall "software" for Win2k3….

yeah, no PIX or other HW will be an option for this client so what SW is the best right now?
Maybe a sweet little mATX with linux setup? or just Sygate or something ?
Alot say ZoneAlarm but I’m kinda . Have they gotten better in the last 4 years?Throw a router on there and call [...]