A 13-layer network security appliance for the desktop or notebook, the Yoggie Gatekeeper series is a powerful accessory for personal use.  The Gatekeeper comes in two flavors:  the Gatekeepter ExpressCard and the Pico. The only difference between these two devices is their size.  The ExpressCard is about credit-card sized attachment, and the Pico is a [...]

I recently installed a personal wiki on one of my home computers.  The MediaWiki install was part of the package for Ubuntu Linux.  Other wiki flavors with install packages listed in the Synaptic Package Manager also included MoinMoin and 13 or so others.  Among all the choices, I opted for MediaWiki simply because this was [...]

The USB flash drive has become the de facto standard for mobile data transfer.  The flash drive has effectively taken the place of the floppy disk.  One floppy disk function which the flash drive has not addressed (or at least users are not aware of it) is to use it to boot a computer. For [...]

Source: PCFrags.com I’ve been looking at an alternative to the mouse lately. Not really intending to get a trackball (though I’ve been trying to shop around for one) but due to some minor issues I have with my computer tables, I had been giving a thought to a possible replacement to my mouse. Besides the [...]

Around the start of the year, I installed Linux on my home PC. It was okay, as it was an old Fedora distro. I had no problems as it worked fine and I really wanted to play around with it a bit. The real problem was that it was installed on top of WinXP and [...]