Internet Anonymity-10 ways to hide your internet trails and improve your security

I'm in your pc,stealing your passwordz

   

  The internet is based on sharing.People add content to the network and it gradually grows larger.The internet is also like a muddy swamp full of houses.Whenever you visit a domain,you leave virtual mud trails which can lead to your ip,identity,location and isp.You also catch digital leeches from each domain(cookies and sometimes spyware) which store your information and make it available to advertisers and crackers(malicious hackers).
  Without further ado, I present you with 10 neat ways to keep your digital identity hidden:

Technologic education in Greece

[rant]

This lab is very similar to ours

Computers and technology are ,in my opinion, the ways of the future.Here in Greece, developing a thriving semiconductor industry combined with a change to the way everyone acts could help  decrease  the gargantuan debt and longer down the road,lead the country to an era of economic prosperity.Although I have many reasons to support this,including the ever increasing amount of university graduates with computer related degrees who could find employment here if this happened instead of heading abroad,this isn't the topic of my post.I want to show everyone who is reading this blog  how much attention is given to such an important subject and what the effects of this attitude are.
  Let me start by telling you that my school is considered one of the best public schools,is labeled as experimental and exemplar( an example to other schools).It is called "Ιωνίδειος Πρότυπος Σχολή".According to its titles it should be the school with an organized and efficient approach to computer technology.Unfortunately,this is far from the truth.

Tweaking android smartphones(How to install a custom ROM and how to root)

Intro

 I've always had a thing with tweaking stuff. Since I was young, I would always try to make everything run better even if it meant hours and hours of effort.After finding out how tweakable smartphones are,I couldn't resist getting one.The Huawei Ideos X5 got my attention as it was really affordable even though it sported hardware used in phones with double its price.
 You may wonder:"How tweakable can a smartphone be?".The surprising answer is as much as a pc if there are developers supporting it.With some tinkering you can change their their user interface and operating system,add features previously locked and even overclock their cpus.Atlhough this applies to all smartphones,I will describe how to do these on those with the Android operating system because I am unfamiliar wih the iOS counterparts.

My hopes about the Bulldozer cpus

Unrelated photo is unrelated

 AMD announced that it will release the Bulldozer cpus in late August to early September.If no other delays occur,this means that we will have these cpus in about a month.So,I think it's a great period to share my hopes about the new chips with everyone who stumbles on this blog.

Analysing Stuxnet

 As you may know Stuxnet is a windows worm with an extremely sophisticated design, which was used to slow down Iran's nuclear development program.Not only did it succeed in doing so, it worked for 2 years undetected.
  After finding out that its source code had been released for the public(it is open source), I wondered how it works and how it can be reused for other purposes like helping security systems advance or future attacks.

Crossfire with pci express slots at x16 and x4

The issue:

 Many motherboards with the mainstream intel chipsets(p55,p67,z68) were crippled by their manufacturers by having their two pci express slots 2.0 limited at x16 and x4 respectively.This decreased the second slot's bandwidth severely while offering minimal benefit from the first slot's extra bandwidth.These  motherboards were also labeled as crossfire compatible and were sold at lower prices than their more expensive counterparts which sported crossfire and sli at x8 x8 speeds.

  I was one of the people who bought one of these motherboards,the p7p55d, thinking that I wouldn't ever need the crossfire function.After a year or so however,I found a second Radeon HD5850 at a really good price and I was tempted to get it. At that time,I couldn't find any written proof that a setup like this would work without issues and I didn't want to risk throwing 200$ out of the window,so I skipped on the potential opportunity.

  For everyone with the same question today though, Tom's hardware did an informative article on this situation and published some interesting results.Let's take a look at them,shall we?

Gamer Hardware: Should I focus on the CPU or the GPU?

 Intro

The most important parts of a gaming computer are undoubtedly the cpu and the gpu. The gpu processes the game's graphics, outputting everything you see in a game and the cpu processes the game's physics. To make a long story short, making a wrong choice with each of these will make your games unplayable or playable with lower than optimal settings.
  In this blog post though, I do not intend to mention the best cpus and gpus for different budgets (you can find this in one of the numerous reviews posted on major hardware review sites). Instead,I want to focus on how you should balance your budget between these two components in order to achieve optimal performance .