Raygen's Basement

Is it really safe to put your Playstation 3 on your routers DMZ?

Published on 2011-02-08 21:28:31

I have seen many websites that suggest to people having problems with their PS3 connectivity and PlayStation Network to  put their PS3 into their routers DMZ. Is this really the safe thing to do? I guess this is a matter of how important safety and security are to you. so what exactly is the DMZ [...]

Social Media and The Future of Privacy

Published on 2010-08-21 13:07:49

Today, everyone has at least one social networking profile. In fact, most people have more then one, and use a variety of them in their everyday lives. With the explosion in the use of social media and mobile devices, we are in fact laying our entire lives online for the world to see. In the [...]

5 Reasons To Dump Microsoft Windows For Linux

Published on 2010-07-14 21:16:57

Does Microsoft Windows get you down sometimes? Do you ever get frustrated that you always have to watch out for viruses, pay for security software, and deal with other headaches that come with Microsoft Windows? If so I want to let you know you do have another choice, and best of all its a free [...]

Is The Outcry against Facebook Due to Privacy Concerns Justified?

Published on 2010-05-27 21:07:09

The recent outcry in the news media, and blogosphere about Facebook and Privacy concerns is quite telling. The following Google Search will give you tons of information from the news media and Internet on the assault against Facebook due to privacy concerns.  If you don’t already know, Facebook has come under assault by privacy advocates, [...]

Basic Windows Security

Published on 2010-05-04 20:40:37

In this post, we will look at the basics of securing your Windows based computer. I have often times found folks either take security too lax or way too far. So what is a happy medium that can be reasonably used? It is a question that I often get asked so I will do my [...]

Twitter to implement search advertising

Published on 2010-04-16 18:38:58

Twitter has recently announced it will soon begin offering search advertisements in its search results. This means that advertisers and people can pay/bid on keywords, and those tweets will appear at the top of the search results of Tweets on the Twitter service. The Twitter search advertisements will begin as a select beta named “Promoted [...]

Comcast defeats FCC over Net Neutrality in Court Ruling

Published on 2010-04-09 22:23:29

On Tuesday April 6th 2010,  a Federal Court has thrown the future of network neutrality, and the future of Internet regulations in doubt. The court ruled against the Federal Communications Commission(FCC) in its case against Comcast Corp. The case stems from a 2007 ruling by the FCC stating that Comcast could not throttle or interfere [...]

How to disable trackbacks and pingbacks on WordPress

Published on 2010-04-05 22:51:31

In a previous blog post, I covered the Deep Link Engine which is a WordPress trackback and pingback blog spam plug-in.  This plug-in trys to automatically find blogs and pingback/trackback them as a way to build backlinks in a very spammy way. Today, I am going to show you a very easy way to disable [...]

Phoebe Prince, Megan Meier, Alexis Pilkington, and the impacts of Cyberbullying

Published on 2010-03-31 13:35:07

Today, I come to you with a more somber tone. As a webmaster, this blog focuses primarily on internet and computer related topics. It also includes commentary on social networking and social media. However, this post will differ from all the other posts on this blog. Today marks another sad chapter in the world of [...]

How to add a Technorati Badge to your blog

Published on 2010-03-28 22:34:29

Technorati is probably the most popular blogging community on the internet. Technorati ranks blogs by popularity using its unique authority system. Its very simple how it works. The more claimed Technorati blogs that link to you, the more Technorati authority your blog gets. The more authority you have, the higher you rank in Technorati. Overall, [...]