I installed Linux without having to go to the console!!

hehe...Super happy now. All the 9++ hours waiting for my Suse Linux 10.1 download to finish was really worth it man. I got it running and it boot into it's gui without having me to go into terminal to add a line to a cryptic file. Now that's a first...opensuse, thanks... haha... keep it up team.

Howto: browse the internet safely

Helo to all. This post is kind of a kick off for my new series in this blog. If it do gets better, i might just make a new blog based on it. For now, i am just going to give you all advices on a field where i had done so much research but still have a lot more to learn, computing.

To kick it all of, the first topic is about security.

We all know that the internet is a dangerous place to go without a good set of protection tools, especially if you are using Microsoft© Windows® series of operating systems. With so much news on more and more exploits discovered and exploited out in the wild now, there is no better time to be concerned about these issues. Your own precious data might be released in the wild, and used against you in various ways. The most notable way is your stolen credit card number being used to buy hell of a lot of things through e-bay orany other online shopping sites. Then the next time you check on your credit card usages, to your horror, you find that you have a debt amounting to millions.

ok, that's just one senario that might happen. Yes, I know most of the people who will frequent this blog don't do as much online shopping as I do, but there WILL be usages for your personal infos and passwords. So it's always better to be on the safe side rather than to be sorry.

Here are some simple steps that you can do to prevent yourself from becoming a victim of online fraud.

1. Whenever an e-mail comes to your inbox and asks for your private information or details on e-bay/bank/paypal accounts, ignore it. They are most probably phishing e-mails sent out by people with bad intentions who wants to get their hands on your private data. If you are in doubt, call or e-mail the representatives of the institutions involved.

2. If you are using Windows operating system(any version), make sure you protect yourself with at least an antivirus and antispyware programs. If you can't afford to buy the licences from the big guns (Symantec, Mc Afee), there are a lot more antivirus vendors out there like AVG, Avast, Anvira and some others that will offer you decent protection without slowing your computer to a crawl. As for antispyware protection, you can get decent scanners from Lavasoft Ad-Aware, Spybot search and Destroy, and Windows Defender. Remember to update the programs often, and scan your system once in a while.

3. Remember, the worst link in the chain is the human that is operating the system, i.e. yourself. It's at the outmost importance that you adopt safe-internet practices.

-Don't just forward everything that comes into your mailbox, especially those which are likely
to contain frauds and false news. It will only serve to spread panic. If you want to verify the
authencity of these mails, you may surf to www.hoax-slayer.com to get a accurate info on that particular topic.

-Don't store sensitive passwords (bank login details etc) within your browser. Always log in manually from the front page of these pages by typing in the username and the passwords yourself, and not storing it in the internet browser's cache. Laziness will cost you a bomb in this case, so don't be lazy here.

-Don't do your critical transactions using a public computer(school computer labs, libraries, cyber cafes etc.). You'll never know that the computers have keyloggers installed or not. So like always, it's better to be safe than sorry.

So here we are, some simple to take steps to ensure that you can surf the net safely. There are a lot more steps to take of course. But for now, these will suffice to make your internet-surfing experience relatively safe and enjoyable. So, until the next time I post another entry in this long unupdated blog, take care always there yah...

*tata~

metta

seehua
-Let's create a world full of LOVE =)

Fairness?

We can hardly speak of moral in relation to creatures we systematically devour, mostly singed but sometimes raw. There are men and women who practise horse love, dog love, cat love, bird love. But these very people would take a deer or a calf by it's neck, slit it's throat, drink the blood straight away or in a pudding, and bite off it's flesh. And who is to say that a horse they cherish is nobler that a deer they feed on? Indeed, there are people who eat cats, dogs and horses but would use a cow only as a work animal and the dogs to protect them and their properties.

D.Runes
Handbook Of Reason

New Topics

From now on I might add on topics from my own interests to the topics there are already in discussion here...

They might include computer troubleshooting tips that i might had found out along the way while i am experimenting with various softwares and operating systems.

And some simple reviews of softwares will be included as well...

happy reading everyone =)

metta

seehua
Let's create a world full of LOVe=)

Return of the ghost

After being off the radar for the last few months, yup, i am back to Germany now...

Time to say hi to all of you out there... having fun?

hope you do, but don't forget about work yah...

kinda sleepy now, maybe I am still stuck in Malaysia mentally... hehe.. but don't worry, I will be ok here...

Just want to say hi to you all:

Hello to all!!!

hehe...that's all from me this time... *tata~

metta

seehua
Let's create a world full of LOVE =)

Realisation Part 4 : Time

Time. There are many things to be said about time. We all have a fixed amount of 24 hours a day. Yet there are people who finds it too little and wants more time. Contradically, some said it's too much that they don't know what to do with the extra time.

Time. Time can also be a way to prove certain things. It can be used to prove how deep, strong and faithful is the love towards another person. Time also proves how determined a person is in achieving something. It shows a person's true character overtime.

Time. As abstract as it is, time can also be the best healer anyone could find in the entire universe. When there's nothing elses that could be done to make things better, very often we turn to time to heal themselves, especially when hurt comes into picture. Time offers no love nor hate, no praise nor critism, no judgement nor bias. It is neutral on its own. But it could give us peace and clarity.

Simple human, often clouded by these illusions of love, hate, praise, critism, judgement, bias and many other worldy and temperal thoughts and past experiences. And very often these illusions had fixed a stereotyping mindset towards many of the outlooks in life. This build up assumptions, most of the time, inaccurate and unfair assumptions. Why? Because time passes. Time never stay still but our assumptions do. Our life is in the present time, but others judge us base on our past. This is why it is so difficult for those who wants to change for the better but yet met with this indirect obstacle and in the end, an long anticipated positive results may just unknowingly became stale and negative outcome became the unwanted results.

When someone has turned to time for healing, it must have been too complicated to undone the tangle and more opinions and assumptions will only worsen the situation.

If only everyone put down their egos and their judgemental mindsets, wouldn't this world be so much nicer to live in? Dance like no one is looking. Living like no one is judging.


Jen=)
Be yourself, for those who mind do not matter, and those who matter, do not mind.

Journey called Life... (Part 27: Simplicity)

All this while you guys had been reading lots of texts that must had been exceedingly complex for you to understand.

They are all very simple actually. All this while I had been liing quite a simple life with quite a simple view of the world. Although I might know more about the world and the environment around me than some of you out there, I still hold on to a simple view of it. That if i want to change the world, I must start from my own self.

This is the very foundation of my view towards this world. And complex things are almost always formed with simple building blocks if they are to hold firm. Try build a huge skyscrapper without the very simple looking metal beams and see what happens.

I won't burden myself with unnecessary things like worrying too much about things that I know I won't be able to change anymore, or worrying too much about how another person might think of me. I will just be myself without too much of a mask if possible. Perhaps I won't be able to go anywhere far if I carry on like this, but I know I will be happier thus.

So, complex or simple, it's all up to you =)


seehua
Let's create a world full of LOVE =)