How to check if your ISP is blocking or slowing bittorrent content
It has become public knowledge in recent months that some ISPs (Internet Service Providers - the folks who provide you at home with your internet connection) are blocking or throttling bittorrent traffic. Bittorrent as you might know is a very popular P2P (point to point) file sharing client which lets you download torrent files. But, how can you tell if YOUR ISP is blocking or slowing down this traffic
Create a self destructing email address
So you go to a website for downloading some drivers, obtaining some information etc and you find out that they want you to provide your email address so that they can email something to you.
Like an honest and cowly person, you provide your email address only to come to know that your email address has been sold, shared or provided to 1000's of other parties and now you are getting tons of unsolicited email or SPAM every day.
How to map a FTP drive in Windows
This article shows how you can map a drive from a Windows XP machine to your external FTP server using Windows Explorer, note that this does not provide you with a drive letter.
How to configure Wake On Lan to work behind a router
Wake on Lan (WOL for short or sometimes called RWU for Remote Wake Up) uses UDP port 9.
If you are behind a router and want to allow Wake On Lan packets to go through, make sure you forward UDP port 9 to the broadcast address, this is because a computer does not get an IP address until its booted up, and the magic packet needs to be sent to all the computers in the subnet (hence the broadcast). When the WOL packet is sent, it contains the MAC address of the machine you want to wake, so only that machine would respond to the broadcast and wake up.
Drivers for unknown devices in Windows Device Manager
If you are a computer techie like me, you must at some point come across the dreaded yellow exclamation mark icon in Windows XP device manager, usually indicating that there is a device that isn't working properly. It can be worst if it says "UNKNOWN DEVICE". This article details some steps on how to hunt this device down.
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