Archives for the ‘Thoughts’ Category

Security experts’ common sins

By fiLi • Jul 6th, 2006 • Category: Thoughts

In reference to Omer Taran’s 10 most common security experts’ sins, here’s my humble addition to that list. I’m doing a very bad generalization rule of some security experts that I’ve met throughout my IT years, and referring to security experts as "them", I hope they’ll forgive me:

No collaboration - Security experts seem to like [...]



Techies - Problem solving and searching discussed

By fiLi • Mar 30th, 2006 • Category: Thoughts

“You’ve been preaching for us to do all sorts of nasty to our computers, like telling us to disable the Automatic Updates service for our machine to run faster with your “tweaking post” and then write us about using Firefox that doesn’t even work well with the Windows Update site. See? we have to use [...]



An old Windows XP machine optimization tweaks

By fiLi • Mar 26th, 2006 • Category: PC, Thoughts

It makes sense that not everybody has the money to refresh their specs every year or so. Seeing some of my friend’s machines I’m usually overwhelmed by how bad things are and how much time they waste because of a lack in knowledge as to how they could make things better. The major problems [...]