It’s been awhile since I’ve read these, but they popped back up and thought I’d share them here. I can’t say I would agree 100%, but I’d have a hard time arguing against any of his rules.

al3x’s Rules for Computing Happiness

If you use a WiFi network at home, and more importantly at work, securing it to keep out unwanted users is very important. There are now three methods in use to secure a wireless network. The earliest and most insecure is called WEP. If you’re still using WEP because your computer or router doesn’t support [...]

Apple has released Snow Leopard ahead of their announced schedule and it becomes available tomorrow, August 28th. If you’re still on the fence about the upgrade or are looking for more information Jason Snell has a great review at Maworld.

The result is a Mac OS X update unlike any in recent memory, one that boosts [...]

Cisco did some undercover work and was able to find out some rather interesting facts regarding what motivates people to infect computers and turn them into bots.

Researchers at Cisco recently got a rare glimpse of the inner workings of the botnet underworld after going undercover and meeting an actual botmaster online: the botmaster, who ran [...]

These days our hard drives hold an immense amount of data. Some of that data is critical, some of it is important, and for most of the rest it is easily replaceable. In this post I’m going to mostly address ways of backing up that small amount of critical and highly important data.

My preferred way [...]

In September Apple will release the next version of Mac OS X, 10.6 aka Snow Leopard. This release is going to introduce a small amount of new features as well as make a clean break from the old PowerPC architecture of the older Mac computers. To reflect the nature of the release Apple has priced [...]