Terabyte Storage

This is part of the digital media project.  The aim here is to had a centralized  server with up to and exceeding 1000G of storage and provide a home for all my music, digital books, media downloads and photographs.

How to locate and edit torrc

To get Vidalia Tor to perform in the desired manner, exit in a specific geographic location or to do so randomly, you need to edit the configuration file torrc appropriately and toggle the proxy settings of your browser.

You can use any browser with Tor as long as you can tell the browser to connect using Tor. There is an add-in for Firefox called TorButton, this automates the toggling of the networking settings and is not necessary for the operation of Tor.

• The Minimal torrc file - Configuration file for Vidalia Tor and iPlayer 
• Specifying a specific country in the torrc file - not that the image below shows an Exit Node located in India.

You can easily locate the torrc file by using the search in the Windows 7 Start menu. It can be edited using Windows Notepad or any other text editor.

Blog comes of age

The time has come that this blog is no longer a "feed" for my website.
I don't really care if visitors go to my website and if they do it is likely to be the result of a search and not a referral from this blog.

This blog is still a primary means by which I can determine what people are searching the Internet for.

There are some subjects that I no longer have interest in and some of these posts have been deleted from this blog. Some of these subject include the modification of Insyde h2o BIOS and comparative reviews of BTGuard and TorrentPrivacy.

The fact that visitors to my website from this blog do not understand why and how I have setup the security on my website has prompted this change in Feb 2011. If you visit the home, or root page, of my site you will probably not get anywhere - this is my intention, there is no general index and links to pages that you may be interested on my site.

There are links that can be followed by robots such as Googlebot and they ARE spidered on a regular basis.

This is an example of the kind of response that triggered this change:

I'm trying to get information from you about Torrent-Privacy. I go through all this milarky and cannot sign on even when I set my security to accept transfer to you!

What? Are you a fake for the government? I am not able to afford buying much of anything in this economy. I have no job, and rely on torrents to get information, amusement, etc. Believe me, I've been trying to find a job, but to no avail.

I think if you are not the government, you are unduly paranoid.

anyone else

I don't think that overly paranoid and I am certainly not masquerading as any government (US, Canadian or anywhere else in the world). The question "Anyone else?" needed to be posted in a global fashion so that it could be answered. I replied to the email, but I have yet to receive a response.

It does need to be stated, however, that I have little continuing interest in reviewing TorrentPrivacy and discussing whether it is a scam. I do a lot of P2P (file sharing) and it is still of general interest how the governance of such activity is going to pan out globally in future.

Relakks

What Relakks say:

Protect yourself and your family against surveillance. Simply preserve your integrity online with a hidden IP-number via proxy and VPN-encryption.

• iPredator website
• Relakks Website
• The torrentfreak.com article    - 17/06/2010 - about the deficiencies in iPredator
• iPredator on The Technology Muse

Sandy Bridge Fiasco

Couldn't have happened to a nicer company.

Luckily Intel fanboys are are ones that are going to be making the most noise and clamoring for a recall or a rebate.

The SATA 6G problem is not likely to be a problem - but there is the "seeds of doubt" and not getting what you paid for issues.

I can only wish Intel the best on this one. I feel some sort of poetic justice here and be pleased that I have decided on AMD and am a shareholder.