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It’s a small web after all

I was reading my email when I got a marketing email that mentioned iSubmitWeb. So I went to their site and clicked to see their Case Study. From there I went to their case study’s site, usabasketgifts.com. Now in the mood to think about SEO, and remembering something I once typed about one of my…Continue Reading…

Virus Project

I had a dream and it went something like this.. Imagine the world’s top ten hackers, crackers, and programmers gathered together to work as one team for one purpose: the creation of the world’s deadliest computer virus. The International Virus Project Convention is an event that is doing just that. With all of the world’s…Continue Reading…

Connection Refused to GoogleAdServices

I can’t figure out what’s wrong with this. “Connection was refused when attempting to contact www.googleadservices.com” Nevermind… I’ve found the problem: C:\Documents and Settings\Elliot>tracert googleadservices.com Tracing route to googleadservices.com [127.0.0.1] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms localhost [127.0.0.1] Trace complete. It’s blocked in my HOSTS file (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc). I’ve…Continue Reading…

Norton Internet Securiity Blccks Without Notice

I was helping my roommate connect to the USC FTP server, bones.usc.edu, and we found that it didn’t work in either Internet Explorer nor SmartFTP, no matter what login info we used. (By the way, Internet Explorer is terribly vague and cryptic when it comes to FTP error messages. Use a real FTP client, please.)…Continue Reading…

USC Day One

I moved into my dorm at USC today. That is, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. It’s rather nice. I lost lots of stuff. I’ll have to get that organizer I bought from Staples from home, to sort out all the papers. I’m running on my dad’s old laptop. Dell Inspiron 300m; extended…Continue Reading…

Class C Network

Some information for reference. Class C Network — binary addresses start with 110, therefore the decimal number can be anywhere from 192 to 223. The first 24 bits (the first three octets) identify the network and the remaining 8 bits indicate the host within the network. An example of a Class C IP address is…Continue Reading…