Typer Tappers

So someone sparked up a conversation the other day about selling links in your forum signature, so I thought what the hell even though I post on small forums might as well have a go.

So a link in my signature will cost £0.03 which is equal to around USD $0.06 per post per forum.

For a avatar I will charge £3 per month which again is USD $6.

With the avatar picture I’m thinking I should offer a link in the signature for £0.01 ($0.02) per post mainly because the avatar picture doesn’t link anywhere but it could be good for pointing out a website.

So if your interested feel free to contact me, or have any better ideas or you do this your self please comment.

I will also join a forum of your request.

Today I’ll talk about blocking websites this is a simple method and very easy to add new websites.

First you need to find the host file, if you are running WinPatrol you can find it by going to the options tab and click “view host file” or if you don’t you can find it on windows XP and Vista in %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc you can just run this and it will bring up the directory.
A faster way to open it is copy this C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\etc\HOSTS and run it by going to start >> run.

Next you want to right click on the file “host” and open with notepad once this is open you can start blocking websites, so you want to block Google add this line at the bottom “127.0.0.1 google.com” you may need to add another with www. as it can be classed as another domain.

The reason i first point out using WinPatrol is because it can identify the exact location of the host file through the registry files, the file may not work because something malicious has changed the root of the host file so that it can redirect things like bank sites to other sites which are malicious WinPatrol will monitor this file for any changes as well so if you haven’t changed it, it will point out that something has changed it.

This is one of my favorite addons and a large reason I use firefox over Opera the majority of the time, the script allows you to disable the Javascript on websites well yeah you can go to options and untick the enable javascript box but this is so much more.

Here is a screen shot of it on Jace’s website:

From this screen shot you can see a lot of things for example you can see all the different scripts from different sites like google analytics or mybloglog so you can allow these different scripts.

What is the need for it though, well if you know your stuff about internet security you will notice how dangerous javascript can be to your browsers it is a very dangerous hole in your computers defence, so only allowing sites you trust is a brilliant method or if your not sure you can temporarily allow the websites.

You can download it from the mozilla website here or from their own site here noscript.net.

Internet Safety Advisor – A lady on a mission, the blog is about keeping your kids safe online I highly recommend the read she has a lot of information on different subjects it is well worth the read.

Blogger Design – Another brilliant website targeting the design market its brilliant if your running a blog it has some excellent tips on running your blog and designing it.

Well the other day I came across a couple of bittorrent routers so it got me thinking about making one on the cheap which is just as efficient if not more, so I set out to do so.

So i figured a computer to run around the clock shouldn’t be very powerful strip it down to the minimal 128mb RAM and at the most 500mhz processor, so I asked around and luckely someone was throwing a old computer out which was around 500mhz.

So I considered a lot of operating systems but came to the conculsion of using Windows, it is very user friendly compared to Linux allowing to easily configure and run so i am running Windows 2000 Server Edition, I would prefer to run something like Damn Small Linux because it uses up very little resources which will also cut the electricity bill down but for now I will play with Windows.

Next I needed to find a bittorrent client, one of my favorite clients is Utorrent it has encryption and most of all a web user interface, so we can connect remotly to utorrent.

Next i wanted to access my files and also run it as a web server allowing me for a later date to stream my music from a web page, so to access files I want to access it using FTP so i started a filezilla server, for a web server I used Xampp downloads everything in one mySQL, Apache etc.

So installing, installing Windows is fairly simple just setup your partitions and your good to go, installing Utorrent is fairly simple just download the WebUI version and follow the Read Me, XAMPP is easy peasy you can just press the next buttons if you like following the default options, it comes with Filezilla ( i prefer to download it separately though) just drag the filezilla icon into the start up folder and it will boot up each time.

Now you can download all your podcasts without the need to switch it on and off all the time, and saving a lot of your electricity bill.

Just put it a side and press the on button when you need it you shouldn’t need a keyboard or mouse you can just press the on button and everything is started up, only trouble i have with mine was the old PSU very loud so i brought a quiet one and its running perfectly using a wireless PCI card so i can practicly move it anywhere I want.

Well as you might know I did a post a while back on Disposable Email Addresses now I’ve found a plugin for firefox which helps a long the way with temporary email addresses.

Okay so this addon is called Temporary Inbox, but why you might ask do we need this as i explained with the other post (Temporary Email Addresses) it will protect you from many things like spam and identity theft.

So you can find Temporary Inbox on the mozilla website here what the addon does is it generated a random email address using various domains provided it will give you the option to check the mail or one of my favorite options is forward your mail.

So if your a disposable email address fanatic then go and download it at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2650.

This is one of my favorite security programs its brilliant in how it works one of my favorite ways is say you edit the host file it will have a message pop up saying the host file has been edited would you like to accept this change, now imagine someone has put malicious code in their remotely when WinPatrol checks it will find that someone has changed it and you don’t have to accept it.

Now the most important thing is the resources programs use like the ammount of RAM this is a brilliant for using very little space and RAM usage.

If you really want to secure your computer download it, it really is a good program worth installing.