Daily Internet Digest

From online mapping technology to the latest venture of Google to help homeowners monitor the amount of electricity they use with PowerMeter, the company has been on the forefront of internet technology for a long long time. The much anticipated and now praised Google maps has become a very useful tool for most people who want to see the world as it is and for what it is. Available to the public, it allows people to learn more about the world through maps loaded with all the information they need. They added the ability to see paces of interest with street-view that is possible with extensive mapping and scanning technology that lets you stand in front of the place you were interested in. Continue Reading »

The case of the Pirate Bay people who were convicted and found guilty of violating several copyright and intellectual property rights issues has seemingly ended with their conviction, sending them straight to the slammer, end of story. We hoped it was but it seems these guys have a trick or two up their sleeves in their appeal process where they seek to overturn charges levied against them by seeking an impartial judge to preside in their affairs. Their lawyers argue that the previous judge that handled the case was quite biased from the start and that they were found guilty even before the process started.
The Pirate Bay is one of the longest and largest FTP file sharing sites the world over that has damaged the film, music and other industries where intellectual property rights were violated hundreds if not thousands of times every day. Continue Reading »

China has long been identified as one of the leading sources of hackers and malware the world over along with Russia and many other countries. Their aims may be for economic and other means yet the country itself is falling victim to it’s generation of computer savvy youth’s armed with the know how and cheaper technology coming in from the West to do more damage it now fears itself from home-based hackers. There have been publicized cases of hackers being caught and prosecuted but the government is taking more steps to prevent such incidents happening from within its borders. Continue Reading »

Copyright your content by licensing it under a Creative Commons license.

This protect your content from being plagiarized by lazy people who are incapable of producing their own content. Licensing your work protects your hard work from being used and abused by other people - sometimes even for profit.

The Creative Commons website has a number of different licenses (which you can get for free) you can use depending how you want your work to be used (or not at all). These licenses are also recognized by courts of law, so you can seek prosecution or fining of plagiarists if you so desire.

A number sites like the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation also offer licenses, but these are more geared towards software and code.

Mainly because of the free-ranging quality of the web where hyou may get one source but risk missing several others making it an exercise in futility. Most measures to control content and software have been quite effective till the internet became so far reaching the policing efforts have simply become too costly. There have been major success stories with major piracy hubs being closed down for a couple of hours till they got the system back up again. The ability of these hackers to move from place to place is quite frustrating for law enforcement for they can lose these people in the blink of an eye. Even some for the best Information Technology security systems are having a hard time to cope with the ever growing threats that are on the internet.
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It’s a good thing that a lot of people are learning more and more on how not to click on possible malicious sites, but numbers show that there are still people who do:

The investigation, conducted by McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), studied the five major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and found that the overall chance of clicking through to a risky site declined by 12.0%. Still, McAfee estimates that consumers click through to risky sites more than 268 million times each month.

“It’s good to see that clicking on search engine results has gotten modestly safer,” said Chris Dixon, director of strategy, McAfee SiteAdvisor. “But when almost one of 12 sponsored links still clicks through to a risky site, there remains significant room for continued improvement.”

Hopefully the number goes down even further next year due to additional internet knowledge and ensure that internet security goes higher.

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McColo, a web hosting site has shut down just last Tuesday. What is good news is that it brought with its closing, thousands of bits of spam that is used to crowd our email inbox with. This good news is made possible by the efficient investigative work of a reporter, Brian Krebs of Washington Post. The company was brought to the attention by Krebs and during the last four months, they have been collecting data about the San Jose California based company. They believed that the company is being used by the cyber underground to send spam. It is said that after its closure, spam volume has drastically decreased by almost fifty percent. While we rejoice in the company’s closing, many believe that the spammers will regroup and wreak havoc to our inboxes.

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Maintaining a network of home computers can be quite a dilemma if you have not even the simplest and most basic tools in trouble shooting your network. There will come a time when you’ll be needing some items to assist you in quickly reparing your pc and internet connection. You can just simply provide a small shelf in your closet. If you just dont have that space, maybe look for a small shelf, if for an unfortunate reason you dont have a shelf, look for a drawer. A complete loser you can be if you dont have a drawer to spare. In that case go find yourself a card board box. Make it nice and put some label in it so you can easily find it when you suddenly look for it. A basic computer toolkit maust have a Phillips screwdriver, a wire cutter, wire stripper and cable crimping tool that will work for your cable types. You also must have a network cable in hand. SO the next time you buy a cable, buy twice as much so you can keep a spare supply. Because somewhere in time you will need them.

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Web radio is quite strange for us, but it has steadily grown into the user’s way of life. Sort of a habit when surfing.There are thousands of radio stations worldwide, by going online, these stations can each a global audience. How cool can that be? One thing you’re listening to your favorite local station, the next you might be dancing to the beat of a Chinese DJ. Internet radio revolutionized the way we listen to music. It has put us in total control. You can listen to what you want, when you want it. But behind the scene is the great technology that makes this all possible. It is called streaming audio. “Streaming” means that you don’t have to download the entire music file before you can play it. Once a small amount of the file is buffered, the audio begins. An you can enjoy that hard rocking music, you’ve been longing to hear.

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The Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M) driver seems to be the one you’re looking for.  You desire to put that on a CD or floppy and when you start installing xp the blue screen with white text appears on the far end “Press F6 if you need to install a SCSI or RAID driver….” press F6 and put in your disk with the sata driver. I found plenty of sites with the driver download by just googling “Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M)”.

People with notebooks usually don’t have a USB Floppy to install SATA drivers from, so you will also have to use nLite to merge them with install CD, or search in BIOS Setup for an entry like “SATA Native mode” and set it to disabled - that will allocate legacy software to detect your HDD as a normal PATA drive.

You have to install the SATA driver earlier than turning the native support off.