Well as many of you know, just earlier today or yesterday, Seagate announced a break through in storage capacity, a whopping 6TB hard drive will be available in the next few years. However, do you really need such large hard drive? Yes and No. Yes, if you run a storage server, such movies and sharing files, like cloud computing cluster server then yes. No, if you’re just doing research and email online, in fact storing data on your hard drive computer is not safe, hacker gets in and you’re expose to the internet all your information published public, and if the computer hard drive crashed, there goes all your research and data information. I have a laptop that have 10GB hard drive and working fine for me, I depend and rely on media storage rather than hard drive, not even HDD. Anyhow a while back IBM also announced unlimited space storage through laser technology I don’t know how that work, but IBM is one of the world computer and storage manufacturer doing continuous research and developments.
Finally my Adbrite ads are up and running on this site
At last Adbrite ads start to shows up on my site, I’m not familiar with it fully yet, but expect to be as good as Google adsense or better I guess depend on the contents and definitely on the traffic with Adbrite. I heard the pay per click is smaller than Google Adsense, but that’s alright I don’t expect any click or making money. It’s an experiment in which I can carry out later in the future. I have done a little bit of research and I saw a lot of complaint about Google Adsense, but bottom line is when Adsense banned you chances are you can never be able to appeal, their decision is basically final, and it’s useless and waste of time to hire a lawyer, unless you have hundreds of thousand dollar stuck in there. If you search the internet web about Adsense comparison with other ads, you will see a lot of bad things, but off course good thing also, and yeah most people wrote bad stuff about Adsense probably because they either got banned from Adsense or one of their site got banned or know someone whom cope with without adsense making no money 🙂 hehehehe.
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Giving up on google adsense getting back with adbrite will see how it goes
Bye google adsense, and back with adbrite. Just deactivated google adsense on this site and activated adbrite on this site. Google adsense giving everyone a chance, but they monitor way too closely and don’t give users (publishers) an opportunity to fix their mistake before disabling or stop feeding adsense ads. It’s pretty easy to get in with google adsense, but now a day they monitor very closely and once they banned you, it’s next to impossible to get it back, appeal all you want and all you can, it will be waste of time. Well, let’s give adbrite a try, since this blog is my personal blog and it’s still new, I don’t seeing making any yet on the ads, but will see 🙂 Base on many experience publishers, google adsense pay the best, but have very strict policies must complied
PHP.Backdoor.Trojan on my web server lately hackers hacking
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of this message notification from my antivirus program. Most likely it has to do with hackers trying to exploit my web server, I believe they’re just running a kiddie script that goes out and look at all websites with PHP enabled website script and try to exploit it or hack my server. Even I have multiple antivirus program running and security program and multiple layers firewall, it still possible to hack in if they have the will, they can, I know I can ahahhahah if I have enough reasons to so to any website .. so far I have no hatred or a will to hack any websites :), but don’t pissed me off hahah, just kidding, it does take a lot of time and effort to hack a single website, hackers are aiming for weaker and easier meal than harder one, they send a robot out to do that and come back with the result then they can start hacking. Anyhow, since I got this message, I went ahead and did a thorough scan for that server, I’m in the process of moving it to the SSD server i7, faster box, leaving this one for Folding@Home
Free video audio streaming server can be listen or watch it remotely
I know some this is nothing new for other geeks, but for me I just found out that VLC (Video Lan) is more powerful than I thought. I have been using Video LAN for years to watch any video format files and any audio files, including zip compressed, ISO, no need to decompress or extract, VLC will read it somehow 🙂 awesome software. I have a computer that share files, including movies and audio that I can access remotely from another computer within my network, not internet. I was able to watch movies via wifi if the the file is about 700-800meg or less, larger than that I it lag intermitten especially toward the end of the movie or when the server computer is working hard – I believe this is typical, even the fastest WIFI will not be able to handle bluray movies files directly. – So I did some research seems like I need to stream my movies and let VLC streaming do all the hard work, it stream the file for you no matter what the file format or source, it will convert to the version that you can play remotely via http or other methods, for instant: I have a 10GB MKV bluray movie of Avatar, and no way I can play this file directly remotely via wifi, it’s too big for the network to handle such bandwidth. So if I use VLC streaming server, it would stream the file to the format that I can watch remotely fast and flawlessly, which is MP4 seems to work best for me.
Sold another item on ebay software item to be exact antivirus
Wow just sold another item on ebay, I basically got it for free, and sold it for certain dollar amount which I will not disclose, but it’s pretty good 🙂 Anything can be post and sell on ebay, furthermore ebay launched a new interface for posting item for sell, I noticed it has less options but awesomely fast post and totally FREE, they will probably only charge you a fee if it’s sold and base on the sold amount not additional listing fee. Pretty good deal, not sure how it will last, but the interface is similar to being use on iphone.
New project this spring and summer Hydroponics indoor vegetable garden year round
OK, I’ve made up my mind, Hydroponics gardening will be on my list of priorities to do this spring time and summer whenever time permitted :). This Hydroponics gardening looks so cool and has many variations. The one that I like the most is having a foam surface water underneath and never need to water or use any pump, I wonder if that will work well, I thought oxygen need to be injected into the water for the plant root to be stronger and healthier vegetables. I believe it’s possible to grow any plants via Hydroponics. This is like space age, or space travel gardening, where we can even grow plants on an airplane or in space, a little of air, light soil and water, the water kept on cycling. The only thing I notice is need that water pump to cycle the water to the plant, but I’ve seen people using soda 2 litre bottle and stack apart each one with little bit of soil and poor water on top one and let it drip, and the bottom bottle collect the drip water and cycle it again and again. Pretty cool huh.
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Domains and Web Hosting service sitelutions.com does it have intermittent problems? or frequent downtime?
Well, I have been using sitelutions.com for a long time. Long time ago with multiple accounts, then loss all those domains and now have one account. I use sitelutions.com for DNS IP redirect, such as domain register at godaddy.com but use sitelutions.com as DNS, so I can manage my subdomain and change IP # as need quick just in case of DDOS attack. Then later I realized that godaddy have same thing and it’s better and more popular than sitelutions. Sitelutions.com claimed that do nonprofit also, whether they really do it or not, who knows, and who has asked? probably no one, it’s marketing scheme probably. One problem I encounter with sitelutions before was they disabled one of my domain without even notifying me or let me have a chance to explain, and I asked them to call me on my phone# in which that they did and I think it was the owner maybe or someone from technical support yelling at me telling it’s my fault that they shut down my website, a very mean owner at sitelutions.com or support person at sitelutions.com I think, very bad, they don’t care about me I guess because at the time I only bought one domain from them and I’m probably not vaulable to them so they start yelling and pointing finger instead of hearing the facts, basically I have domain hosting a forum, and on the forum, someone posted an ebook link for download on another site, and because of that sitelutions shut down my site, I don’t blame them but their customer service support or any support at all is not friendly, yelled at their customer? point finger without hearing explanation. Recently I notice their whole network been up and down, sometime it’s slow to respond or cannot reach to certain domain I have, and I have proof using http://www.montastic.com log, indicating sitelutions.com have problems. On top of my own experience with sitelutions, if you search on google for further information, look like hackers are using sitelutions a lot and users from outside of US such as IRAN VIETNAM where all the fraud scam are …
Ebay Buyer Protection? What about ebay paypal seller protection?
Yes, it works both ways. There is a buyer protection and a seller protection. Both has similar responsibilities the buyer and seller must comply in order to gets its benefit. Main thing are: for seller – to only shipped to the paypal confirmed address and with delivery confirmation or if application signature confirmation and use ebay message system to communicate with the buyer. For buyer – same – buy and paid through paypal, and use ebay message system to communicate with the seller, if something wrong paypal and ebay will refund you or protect you from fraud, so bottom line only shipped to confirmed address and use ebay or paypal all the way, including shipping and communication. Paypal indicate “We employ a variety of tactics and technologies to help keep you protected when you’re doing business online using PayPal. We offer industry-leading data encryption, a team of over 2,000 fraud-fighting specialists, and a set of highly effective anti-fraud risk models and detection techniques.” Lately I sold an item from ebay and the buyer paid for it via paypal and I use ebay shipping system and I’m being protected, even though I just found out, either the buyer got suspended from ebay or deleted his/her account, how do I know this? the reviews feedback is reset to zero and I don’t see any history. Sure ebay and paypal charge you an arm and leg fee, but they got your back in most cases 🙂
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Rebates checks prepaid credit card from promotional rebates are here and keep on coming
That’s right. Total 3 checks and 8 prepaid rebates promotional credit cards I’ve received, small amount, but enough for me to use it to buy for similar item at the whole rebate card price. My hard work experiment paid off 🙂 heheheheh. Last night my address label and stamps.com printer doesn’t seem to print the stamp correct, I think I wasted a couple dollar of good stamp and labels, and still not fix, I hope it’s not the paper label roll I purchased probably had wrong alignment, the printer is Dymo LabelWriter TwinTurbo, it was working well for years, now it’s not. Got to get it fix soon or I will have to go to the office and buy stamps. going back to the rebate, just keep track of your rebate, and follow up after 4 weeks, ensure to have copies, they might ask you to resubmit or fax. The following companies sent me rebate on time. The best one are Kingston, Coorsair and ZotacUSA.
- ASUS
- AVG
- NORTON
- GIGABYTE
- COORSAIR
- KINGSTON
- ZOTAC