Netstumbler for Vista!
Netstumbler is a great program for detecting Wireless Access Points, and more importantly, the signal strength. It’s a must-have program that every tech/nerd should have. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work in Microsoft Vista – but there is an alternative. It’s called Vistumbler. personally I haven’t tried it, but friends of mine say it looks and feels […]
Care when using garchiver
Gmail’s g-archiver seems a great utility for backing up Gmail messages to your computer. But there appears to be a security flaw. From this website I read: The backstory: G-Archiver (notice I’m not linking to it), is a tool that someone wrote to be able to download all your Google Email and archive it locally. […]
Vista TCPIP has reached the connection limit error
Running P2P applications in Vista and ever see this message coming up? In your event viewer, the exact wording is ‘TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts’. Microsoft has implemented a change in the TCP/IP stack since XP SP2 to limit the number of ‘half-open’ (incomplete/syn packets) […]
Maxtor Hard Drive Jumper settings
I hate having to pull a hard drive out of a case to check what the jumper settings are for Master, Slave etc. Not knowing the exact model of this Maxtor one I came across today, I though I’d ask my friend Google. I found a page with most (if not all) of the Maxtor […]