watching from the shade


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An electronic surveillance camera shot with film, and exhibited on the internet.

AdBlock: spaceball.gif


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Install Adblock, right-click on the image and select ‘adblock image’.

UPDATE: using adblock, create a new user filter: ##div#photo-drag-proxy

Doing this will allow you to right-click, ‘view image’ and/or ‘save image as’ on photos from Flickr users who have chosen to ‘restrict downloading’. spaceball.gif is a transparent image that is stretched over the top of the image they submitted.

Learn more about Fair Use by reading the Electronic Frontier Foundation FAQ and United States copyright law

Identity Theft Protection Rubber Stamp - Large (42050-SEC-K) - SHIPS FREE

• Self-inking stamp designed with a special pattern that makes printed information underneath the pattern unreadable
• Use to hide your address, social security number, account numbers or ID numbers on junk mail, magazines, catalogs, credit card offers, bills and more.
• Eliminates the need for a noisy, expensive shreder
• Features a two-sided ink pad that doubles the number of impessions and the useful life of the stamp pad.
• Impression Area: 1-" x 2-1/2", Prints in BLACK INK

Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in America and identity theft protection is a major concern for individuals, businesses and government. Stamp out identity theft with Identity Theft Guard Stamps. Identity Theft Guard Stamps use a special pattern to hide confidential information and is a quick and effective method of identity theft protection. Use to hide your address, social security number, account numbers or ID numbers on junk mail, magazines, catalogs, credit card offers, bills and more. This stamp features a self-contained, reversible ink pad. Ordinary ink pads offer a certain number of impressions before they begin to fade. Not so with a reversible pad. When the impression begins to fade, simply slide the pad out, flip it over and reinsert to instantly double the life. This Identity Theft Protection Stamp is provided as a means of theft protection but cannot guarantee against identity theft. Important Note: The Identity Theft Protection Stamp is most effective when the stamp ink color matches the information that is to be concealed.

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Regain Internet Sanity !!


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No need for hacker violence — THIS is my way of KILLING FACEBOOK !!
The top of the list of sites I block via "HOSTS".

In addition I have programmed a filter into the DNS server to mask access to many of the SPAM/AD delivery systems. With those filters in place, you actually can enjoy reading some article on the web without distractions from blaring FLASHy ads and other online pests …

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When we need someone to stand-in for us at some sort of function, we refer to the person standing-in as a proxy. A web proxy server works the same way. It stands in between your computers browser and the real server that hosts the web page you would like to view. It tries to act as a go-between and will try to see if it can fulfill all your requests on its own. Responding or connecting to the internet and the sending and receiving of traffic is all done by the proxy server.
Web proxy servers have 3 major characteristics:
1.It can save time and improve performance. When you tell your browser the web page you would like to visit, the browser goes to the proxy who will send the request to the real web server that hosts the page you want to visit. Should your sibling want to view that same web page later, the proxy will simply put up the same page that you viewed earlier thus saving the time having the proxy sending requests to the real web server. This makes the viewing of favorite pages faster.
2.Web proxy servers filter information. The web proxy servers function as a filter for all requests and can even make inappropriate sites inaccessible to people within a group like a company or educational institution.
3.Web proxy servers give protection. A computer using proxy servers, any requests for viewing web pages made by that computers browser is routed through the proxy server. The proxy therefore hides the identity of the computer that is requesting for the page acting like an extra layer of security that isolates the computer.
Why is a web proxy server needed?
Web proxy servers comprehend information and data that passes through it and is able to act on it. In most offices, employees are able to access most websites except for those that the company has deemed inappropriate. A web proxy server can understand all the requests made by all employees within that company and block those that ask to view the sites that are inappropriate. The server can even be used to track which employees view which sites and how often. It can also scan all data that pass through it for viruses.
A company may also use a web server to provide a layer of security for its many computers. To the online world, a company may use web proxy servers to make it appear that there are only a few machines while thousands of its employees may be surfing the internet through that proxy server.
Proxy servers also keep information via a cache. People using the servers frequently have favorite pages that they often view, the proxies then keep the information pertaining to these favorites and put up copies of the favorite pages so that there is no need to access the real web servers every time a page is requested.
There are similarities between a web proxy server and a NAT (Network Access Translator) router. There are similar functions but there are also major differences. The biggest difference being that a web proxy server can comprehend data that passes through it and act accordingly while a NAT router simply comprehends the origin and destination of data and not what the data contains.

Trans Wisconsin Adventure Trail un-race


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Just wanted to remind everyone that the first ever multi-day self-supported mountain bike race is coming up on June 19th. Registration is open and free.

550 miles from the Illinois state line to the tip of Wisconsin! Whoo whoo! Can’t wait!

I hope I will see some of you there.

This is why, in "why are you so big on ultralight touring?".

You can’t storm the unimproved back roads, the single track (or the snow with a traditional fully loaded touring setup.

I’ve blogged about it here: mmeiser.com/blog/2010/02/trans-wisconsin-550-miles-of-ult…

Official website here:
www.transwisconsin.com/

The pictures I’ve seen of it in my research thus far are absolutely amazing. Hoping to compile some research and post it to my blog soon.

Disclaimer: My brother Joe has organized this race.

I can’t believe I hadn’t even heard of this route before he posted it! It was developed not through some organization or foundation like rails to trails… or even some governmental proxy… but from a few BWM enduro motorcycle enthusiasts looking to create a remote long distance back road / off road tour right here in the Midwest. Much love to them. It’s going to be so awesome!

How to kill a productivity killer.


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Instant Messengers are the biggest productivity killers in an office. Ashish (pictured) and I decided to deny access to Google Talk. After a bit of searching we figured out that we need to block talk.google.com on the proxy server. We created a deny rule on the proxy (Microsoft ISA Server 2004) and keeping in line with the Microsoft tradition, it didn’t work.

We then dig‘ed a bit and identified the servers that run the gtalk service, a total of eight in all. We then replaced the URL in the deny rule with the list of eight IP addresses. A quick test showed that Google Talk client stopped connecting. Success!

Content & happy with the feeling of a job well done, we took a break. Imagine our surprise when we returned and found that the bastard had managed to connect while we were away. The proxy logs weren’t much help. So we fired up Wireshark and started capturing the packets going out of the proxy server. Ashish connected the Google Talk client and I parsed the Wireshark logs. Google Talk has a fall back server hosted on, who would have guessed, toolbar.google.com!

We added that IP to the proxy deny rule. The IM junkies in the office are in for a bad monday!
Yahoo! Messenger, Rediff Bol and MSN Messenger to be killed next.

The panoramic photograph has been made by stitching together two pics taken from my cameraphone.

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Panda Antivirus Pro 2011 : protection contre les menaces connues


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Antivirus et firewall 2011 de Panda Security. Installez-le et oubliez les virus, les logiciels espions et les pirates !

Infos et essai gratuit sur :
www.pandasecurity.com/france/homeusers/