Why Non-broadcast Wireless Networks are not a Security Feature
By turning off broadcast mode on your Wireless Access Point (AP), do you assume that it is more secure and less prone to hack? Well you would think so, but have a read of this article. I have copied/pasted it word-for-word because it is a very thorough and well written article. At the bottom of […]
Custom Login Wallpaper Windows 7
The wallpaper presented to you at the logon screen in Windows 7 gets pretty boring quickly. Easy to change? Relatively. You can find some third party tools, or have a go yourself with the instructions below: 1. Press win+r key and Type Regedit at run prompt 2. Locate following registry key HK Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background 3. […]
Google Pacman
Head over to Google today and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by today’s logo – dedicated to Pacman, one of the most popular retro games ever. Best part is that you can play it too! Click on insert coin and see what score you can get ……
Vista “unidentified network” can’t surf the net
Came across an interesting problem the other day where a friend could not surf the net as Vista was displaying ‘unidentified network’ when trying to connect to her wireless router. Wired (ie ethernet cable) was fine. What I did notice was that from a command prompt, an ‘ipconfig’ command did not give an IP on […]
AVG Rescue CD
A great addition for any IT pro’s toolkit which I read about the other day – AVG Rescue CD is bascially a portable version of AVG Anti-Virus running on a Linux live CD. You can use it as a bootable CD or even a bootable USB drive, and the best thing is that it’s free. […]