Archive for September, 2005


Shortcut to TAMU Intranet

Texas A&M University has several websites and resources accessible only when you are on campus, or simply their on the campus intranet. This is good since there really isn’t any use for these sites except for the students and the faculty, such as turning in homework and library resources. The only way to access these […]

Animated Backgrounds

It turns out Xscreensaver can do much more than just act as a screen saver. All the different screen savers are actually seperate applications. All of these can act as your desktop as well. First navigate into your folder where you can find all the screen savers. If you don’t know where do this.

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Public Key Encryption in a nutshell

I have been noticed lot of people lately who are using storing or transferring sensitive data (such as bank information) with no encryption or security what so ever. Anyone with a simple packet sniffer can catch the data when being transferred or if they have any sort of access to your physical machine they can […]

The Browser Switch

It seems to me that all the hype that surrounded Firefox for the last couple of months is dying away now. Its quite ironic that there are so many security holes being discovered (Considering that was what drove firefox, although still much secure than IE). Worse yet, it seems with every update, they are putting […]