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I don't worry about this one bit. I know I can rock her world and I know I have many times and sometimes I'd rather just lay back and enjoy my afternoon like I did today and the lady didn't mind a bit, I'm very sure of it :)

WiFi repeaters are almost always a bad idea (unless there is just simply no other way). Because the traffic has to be received by the repeater and then retransmitted on to the WiFi client computer it cuts the available bandwidth in half but that's already been cut in half with 802.11a/b/g standards as it is already half duplex so now you are down to 25% (of course that is the theoretical ideal and never real world, so with a wireless repeater you are probably getting 10% of what you had to start with). To go the distance, adding another wired in WiFi access point on a different channel, using a sectional (or even highly directional) antenna or even using a work group bridge that goes back to wired (one wireless hop instead of two) is always preferable depending on your circumstances and what you are trying to do. You also have to power this repeater somehow so that assumes you have electrical power so maybe a powerline ethernet converter could work where the power line is used to transmit the data. Or in other applications a purpose made point-to-point wireless setup (with directional antennas) may be the way to go. Of course if I knew exactly what you were trying to do and the circumstances I could comment better on the most appropriate and cost effective solution.

Apparently the main pluses of Web-Stat over Google Analytics are: - line-by-line detail of visitors available (Analytics shows only aggregates) - live data (Analytics is about 12 hours behind) - independent from Google (ideal to monitor Adwords click-fraud) - reports are easier to use/understand - monitoring of your web site uptime/downtime

Women are the same most everywhere. That said there is a difference in attitude between Canada and the US. Most ladies in the US have been arrested a couple of times for doing something that is perfectly legal in Canada. One lady I know spent 2 years in prison (no doubt not her first offense but it seems incredibly harsh). After that kind of persecution she isn't going to have the same attitude as a Canadian lady who doesn't have to worry about this possibility.

You need to be careful with this one, lots of freely available password recovery programs (if just Google for it) are malware or viruses in disguise. The "real" free one that really works (even with Windows 8.1) is here: Offline Windows Password and Registry Editor. Microsoft's "official" stance has always been that it is impossible and they have directed many people to reinstall the operating system over the years and loose all their data rather than admit how easy it is which is another case of big business gone bad. You need to burn a special CD, write a bootable USB stick, or there is even a floppy disk version (but most computers do not have one anymore, just the same I have a USB floppy drive that I use for this purpose) and then boot from that to erase the password. Read and follow the instructions carefully as this one is not fancy or friendly but it works 99.9% of the time. My computer fix-it friends usually take the hard disk out of the system first and back up all the data by connecting the hard disk to another computer (which is another method) before actually writing to the registry to erase the password (just in case the registry is corrupt or something goes wrong).

That's actually how I discovered CERB and got to meet many wonderful CERB ladies (which changed my life forever) :) A Security Consultant friend of mine was hired by a major hotel chain to make recommendations on how they could better protect their guests (from becoming infected with viruses and other "threats" one exposes them self to connecting to a hotel WiFi network, like exposing their passwords, etc.). Because of my background in Internet and network security (no longer my line of work) I was hired by my consultant friend to consult with him and we undertook a study which involved monitoring what was flying though the air. It's important to point out that we were asked to do this by the network owners but I don't think you are breaking any laws by watching other traffic on a WiFi network you have the right to access (e.g. as a guest of the hotel). We were able to intercept over 300 usable logins and passwords in a single evening (mostly POP3 email accounts) but a CERB login was one of them (I had not heard of CERB before that). Ultimately the study did result in some improvements (we engineered the network so that although guest computers could access the Internet they no longer could communicate with other guest computers directly) but the WiFi network remains wide open for anyone to listen to, to this day and this is the case at all hotels with WiFi and what hotel doesn't offer this today? They all do. If CERB had a trusted SSL certificate we would still have known someone was accessing it but we wouldn't know who or have seen the login or MD5 password hash (which is trivial to convert back to plain text).

I've traveled on some airlines that already offer this... a couple of times it was very convenient and a couple of times it was equally disappointing and didn't work and I guess I was sort of counting on it to make a very long flight not quite so long and be able to catch up on my email so it can be nice or it can just be another frustrating part of your day that doesn't work from time to time :) So it did make a few flights seem shorter and it did make some others seem longer (because it didn't work and had before - amazing how quick we can be spoiled).

Actually we do :) A group of cryptographers announced over a year ago that they had "owned" at least 20% of all the private keys from major sites and many others by using various techniques and speculated that if they had the resources of the NSA they could easily achieve close to 100%. They even set up a web site where you could go and upload your public key to see if they had the corresponding private key in their "collection" :) Do you really think the NSA invests all those resources, time, energy and money so they can monitor encrypted gobbledygook? Even though SSL won't stop the NSA from listening in if they want to, it is pathetic that CERB can't invest $30/year (I just bought one for $30) for a "trusted" SSL cert and do and automatic http -> https redirect to protect the naive CERB ladies using hotel Wifi from casual eavesdroppers. And if the MOD should read this and be insulted he need only drop me a note and I'll send along the $30 his way if he'll agree to do this (even though they once posted an annual budget in the hundred thousand dollar range).

Thanks so much, that's pretty much exactly what I was looking for; and I had done a lot of Googling and not came across Broadcam. It's only $60 for the professional version so if their trial version works out for me I have no problem upgrading to the commercial version. Yeah, I'm getting 98.7 Mbps down and 11.04 Mbps up with the speed test. It's a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem provisioned at 100 Mbps but obviously the upstream isn't symmetrical. We also have Fiber offered at 100 Mbps (200 of you want to pay for it) in my area and there they do advertise that one of the advantages of their service (over cable) is that it is symmetrical. I tried ustream and a couple of other video reflectors but it ends up being about 800 kbps continuous (and after about an hour of broadcasting it would disconnect for some unknown reason). That's not a problem at all (the bandwidth, but the unexplained disconnects are) except my provider does start overage charges when you go beyond 250 GB/month so I can't leave that up 24 hours a day. At least 8 Mbps of my 10 or 11 upstream is always totally available so that means 10 viewers before I start to get over subscribed. Hopefully broadcam has some settings I can tweak to allow for a few more viewers at peek times. I'll be giving it a test run later today. Thanks again, that's just the kind of pointer I was looking for!

I'd like to set up a G-rated live video stream on a public website for animal lovers. Much the same kind of project as some sites where you can watch the goings on at a birds nest or even a mare giving birth. Basically I have the equivalent of a eagles nest nearby (something similar) that many folks all over the world might be interested in watching, live from time to time. There are a large number of services (e.g. ustream is one of them, etc.) and that's the way that most people do accomplish this. These services (and there are many of them) allow you to do this very easily but the outbound bandwidth on my internet connection to stream full motion video 24 hours a day, 7 days a week out to one of these content providers is going to be too high to use one of these video reflector services and I don't anticipate having 1000 concurrent viewers any way so I'm thinking of running the video streaming server here locally and sometimes there may be 10 viewers and other times probably none, so my 100 Mbps Internet connection can no doubt handle that and not show up on my ISPs radar. Of course if it did become popular enough I would have to switch to using a service that has more bandwidth than I do and can accommodate thousands of concurrent viewers. Does anyone have any experience in setting up their own live stream video server that will support multiple end points (e.g. any browser), etc. perhaps displaying it in Adobe Flash Player, HTML5 or silver light (or all of them, depending on what is best for the viewer's specific browser)? If so, what software did you use or would recommend? I'd be very interested in hearing from anyone that has any experience in doing this or something similar: One of the reasons I am doing it is it is something I haven't done before.

I use Skype all the time and Skype-Skype is always free. It is also an excellent way to call home (or anywhere) from overseas but to call land lines or mobile phones you have to pay (a very reasonable per minute rate) and I use PayPal to fund my account so "Skype" per se does not have my credit card information. Skype is owned by Microsoft and at one time boasted strong encryption, but now it is owned by Microsoft so there should be no more expectation of privacy than with any other phone call. One feature I find particularly useful is the screen sharing feature where you or the person you are talking to can share their screen for viewing by the other party.

Apparently, she says you can sell your book directly through Amazon with very little hassle. For even less hassle and access to 10+ e-book markets, services like http://www.bookbaby.com/ will take care of everything for you (and keep 15% of the proceeds for their trouble) :)

While smoking no doubt helped the dust accumulate it had to be there to start with... this is very poor housekeeping. A very long time ago I started out life as an electronics technician. When we took the back off an old television set I could tell in an instant it was owned by a real Newfoundlander -- they tend to vacuum the carpets EVERY day and even if the set was 10 years old it looked just like new :)

Exactly. So if they pay for the appointment and only search with permission, well what they do on their appointment time as long as it is ok with the SP... but I doubt they paid for their appointments. Given the current state of the Prostitution laws I think they should be obligated to pay for their appointments just like if they were visiting any other professional. Would be interesting if an SP sent them an invoice and took it to small claims court if they didn't pay up :)

In the case of Future Shop I agree that extended warranties are a scam with one exception. I bought a big screen TV and these things have a history of power supply problems and other types of early failures. So when the power supply did actually die they came in a van the same day, replaced the set with a loaner, packaged it up and shipped it for repair and then came back to re-install it when it was fixed - no charge. I wasn't willing to keep the box it came in around and it made the whole break down totally hassle free. Also at the time I bought it they were offering a free delivery and installation promotion which was also nice as I don't own a truck or a van. For what it cost me it was well worth it for this level of no hassle service.

Yes you certainly could but then you can`t use your system for any other real work while you are doing your semi-anonymous (safe) surfing as you end up booting your system from this LiveCD or USB and living in that environment. I`m also not a fan of Tor as people do create evil exit nodes just to capture the unencrypted traffic in the clear (including your CERB login and password) as it crosses the wire :) Welll, actually I am a fan of Tor but believe it inappropriate for this kind of purpose as it is more likely any clear text or MD5 hashed passwords (like your CERB credentials) would be compromised exiting the Tor network (more likely on Tor someone is watching) and while I agree Tor is anonymous you don`t stay anonymous when you use it to log in somewhere via a monitored exit node. The NSA has admitted to operating several Tor exit nodes (for just the purpose of monitoring all traffic exiting Tor through their nodes).

Good point but do keep in mind that they do have (and use) warrant-less access to this information, Toews only failed to make it official and legal in all cases.

And thank you for reminding everyone of the importance of this! My bad for not referencing a more recent reference like this one: Google's Gmail Hacked This Weekend? Tips To Beef Up Your Security. Any account (Gmail, hotmail your bank account, you name it) that uses reusable passwords is vulnerable. You are quite right that Gmail is superior in that they filter out most of the malware installing emails that allow hotmail accounts to so easily compromised but only two factor is at all safe -- and it is very convenient in that you hardly know you are using it as your own computer only demands you use a one time password every 30 days (if selected) and you can use other computers out of your control more safely.

Suggest you actually take the time to read it: as much about VPN services (to spite the title) so don't judge a book by it's cover (or title). FreeVPN? How about free security guards for your business? Bet any bank would jump at my free security guard service and dump the paid ones they have, imagine the money they would save! You wouldn't trust an offer like that so why would you trust a "free" VPN service?

Interesting. I'd have to say perhaps you should read this: http://www.personalvpn.org/danger_proxy_servers.htm People have been known to set up TOR exit nodes just so they could intercept and harvest the traffic drawn to their node. Few things in life are both free and don't come with a catch of some sort (CERB excepted of course and even that isn't free to those who pay to advertise here) :)

Yes, there is a self-signed certificate and if you access CERB via https://www.cerb.ca/vbulletin/index.php and tell your browser to trust it, then it is a far better way... but keep in mind that the SSL functionality isn't quite implemented correctly so there are lots of links you can click on within the CERB site that will end up taking you back to an http (non-SSL as opposed to https SSL) session. It would be a major step forward for security if the mod installed a trusted certificate and made sure it was implemented properly (in fact redirecting http sessions to https, insisting all sessions be SSL like any banking site). At least this would prevent most people from being able to grab your login credentials for CERB out of thin air when using Wifi.

Aside from telling you the mail wasn't delivered, the "mailer-daemon" can also inform you it was in fact delivered if you request it to do so. Which such a high ratio of responses (1 in 10 emails you send), I would suspect that your email software may be set to request a delivery notification by default. Of course 9 out of 10 mail systems will ignore this request which leaves the 1 in 10 that is responding because you asked it to? With outlook you can set a "Tell me when this message was delivered" as well as requesting a read receipt "Tell me when it was read". Of course seeing the text of one of these responses (with any email address info removed to protect confidentiality) would tell me immediately why it is sending you such a response.

It's hard to beat Strong VPN. They are reliable and more than fast enough for Netflix or Hulu (even on my smartphone using Wifi). About $50/year, complete pricing information can be found on their site. Without VPN and on Wifi, your CERB password goes over the air as a simple hash which is trivial to convert back to plain text. Many other passwords (like for POP3 email accounts) often travel in the clear and are easily intercepted. With some VPN services you can still tell what site the user is accessing (DNS lookups) but not with this one, all someone intercepting the traffic will "know" is that you are using a VPN connection and how much traffic you are moving and of course it gives you an IP address that terminates in the country of your choice thus it can be used to bypass content restrictions on streaming media, etc. If you are using a smartphone it's best to make sure it is easily supported (mine is - Android). For Windozzze and Apple OSX there is an installer that is dead simple to use.

Awesome Peachy, I've been waiting for Google Voice to become available in Canada as it wasn't for a long time... Some people have been using it in Canada for a while now but they had to jump through hoops to set it up and bind it to a US number. Does anyone know if it is now officially available (and therefore easily set up) in Canada?

Just wondering if (after your one month free trial) you did decide to go with it? I have long felt that the 2-Factor authentication and the bottomless inbox size combined with all the other nifty features makes it the perfect solution for anyone but particularly SPs (or clients) who don't need their email hacked and the confidential information therein compromised. It also seems more "professional" to have email from your own domain name as opposed to simple gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc.