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The Internet is full of 100% free and legal software written by the online community to accomplish any number of tasks.
The I Want a Freeware Utility to … website provided by eConsultant.com provides a list of over 450 free downloads sorted by the kinds of tasks you might need them for.
The architecture website Archibase.net has a great series of photographs from an abandoned underground nuclear submarine base in Balaklava, Russia.
Aviran’s Place has an entry up talking about the results of a spyware quiz created by antivirus maker McAfee.
According to the results of the quiz, nearly 65% of all quiz takers would have been infected by spyware and adware had the tests been real. And even those who did better at correctly identifying potential spyware were still likely to visit a potentially dangerous website within thirty days.
Take the SiteAdvisor Spyware Quiz yourself and see how well you’d fare. And don’t forget to look into an antispyware program such as Webroot’s Spysweeper.
If you’ve come through this website before, you’ve probably noticed a large amount of content missing. That’s because the hard drive on the original webserver went bad and needed to be replaced.
I’ve moved MeisterPlanet to the webhost service Dreamhost.com until I can get access to the backups at MJZ Hosting and restore access to the site on their servers.
In the meantime, I have most of the text from my posts already uploaded from a personal backup I’ve made, but it will probably be a few more days until all the image files that make up much of my site will return.
For anyone who’s ordered computer technology from Newegg.com, the AnandTech team has written about their visit to the popular online retailer and includes plenty of behind-the-scenes photographs of just how large an operation they’ve become.