Okay, here’s a crash course on Networking Security 101. You want to set up networking at home. What would be better than doing in the most secured manner? My friends have been asking me a lot about them and I’ve got tired of answering the same questions again and again. So I decided to blog them here and ask them to come here to check it out. Here are some low-downs on how to get them connected securely.

1. Always use wire to configure your router. Not only does it provide the highest security but also it eases setting up. Make sure you use a proper CAT5e to connect. Not to mention it’s much faster than your wireless connection.

2. Make sure you always enable encryption. Make sure it’s WPA with 128-bit encryption or higher. You’ll never know who would be ‘eavesdropping’ into your line to tap your connection. However, eavesdropper will unable to access any information if you’re accessing to webpage that starts with ‘https://…’, secured FTP, SSL and even VPN connections.

3. I disable wireless when I don’t need them. Security alway comes with a price. This may be hard to do if you like the mobility. I would rather connect my 5-port router to my whole house rather than having a wireless connection. I only enable wireless when necessary when somebody comes to my house and need a quick fix on the internet.

4. Change your wireless encryption password monthly. I’m usually lazy to change my password so I usually engage in complicated 12-character passwords (the longer the better). I write them down on both my notepad + sticky pad to remember them. You can use Microsoft Password Checker to check for you password’s strength.

5. While we’re on password, may I suggest not using any password that has relevance to you such as:

a) Date: your birthday, your wife’s syphilis’s treatment day, & etc
b) Name: your pecker, car, & etc

While it might seem to limit and bothersome to some, networking security has always been breached by human intervention. Either the hacker is brute forcing his way in, or somehow they managed to get some wind of your information to use that against you in one way or another.

So, be safe and try to practice logic when doing your networking. It shouldn’t be hard to do simple practices in order to archive greater safety for your network. Some of the tips can even be applied in your work environment where security is the utmost importance.

Watching Sydney White is like watching She’s The Man all over again. Instead of taking adaptation from William Shakespeare like in Twelfth Night, this movie borrowed heavy elements from Snow White. I guess after Hillary Duff taken her movie on Cinderella, I think it’s only befitting that Amanda Bynes should take the next step being Snow White in this movie.

Alright, before I go on, this movie is a chick flick. The correlation between old storybook into modern storyline always interest me and therefore I’m always on a lookout for this kind of movie. Which is why I find She’s The Man is so entertaining.

*Spoilers ahead*

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Sometimes you would wonder how anyone with limited intelligent excelled in life. This kind of people follows the same rigid instruction and had practically no creative thinking.

It’s funny how it always turns out.

Here are we, people who are pretty resourceful, smart and considerate are outsmarted by these idiots in the office. And these people do not come in small numbers but a large number of them are simply too dumb not to think of an alternative. As a result, it is always our work to ‘help’ them but in the end, it is they who got away with all the honors.

Life is pretty unfair.

There’s a saying in Penang Hokkien: “Gong Gong Chiak Thi Kong”. Or to put it in another in Forest Gump term: “stupid is as stupid does”. They might be dumb but by sheer luck, things just fall in place and they enjoy the benefit. Who knows when they’re old they might just play golf with their Calloway golf clubs while we’re slaving away with our day job.

Unlocked phone is widely available in most Commonwealth countries. I’m not sure what laws were applied but I’m so glad that this has happened. Locked phones mean monopoly on the telecommunication company and if you liked the phone so much, there is no way you can stay with the same service provider can you?

It goes the same thing with the Apple iPhone. Just hope that they will come here as soon as possible. Since they’ve been unlocked in May, I think it would just be a matter of time before they arrive here with their all shiny interface.

Was still wondering whether I should get the Apple iPhone or the Sony Ericsson X1? Hmmm, decision decisions…

Playing WOW is not as complicated as identifying a HDMI splitters. However, there are some people who just make life so hard for us to actually play the game properly.

You have a tank, which is me that always generate threat. Threat is a mechanic in World of Warcraft to see which player the enemy would first attack. Now to generate threat, you attack the enemy, build up the threat and then later those damage dealing classes like warlock or hunter start inflict damage to take down the enemy.

Now, this idiot actually made my job very hard because he is not concentrating the enemy I’m tanking on. Instead of hitting the guy I’m tanking on, this idiot being a smart ass start pulling other character. I have no problem surviving, being me having a huge armor mitigating lots of damage inflicted on me. Now usually damage dealer do not have my kind of armor, so they’re quick to die when the enemy decided to focus on them.

If you die once because of your stupid mistake, I’m alright with it because it’s pretty hard to gauge your threat level against a tank. Doing it 10 times in a row is a simple act of stupidity. Either this guy is not paying attention or he’s stupid not to realize that there’s a thing called threat.

Another thing about it, if it’s his own stupidity, I would understand if he apologized for the mistake he’s done. This particular idiot practically screamed on the chat (what Caps lock) and asked us to resurrect him. Pissed off that he’s brought so much trouble, we abandoned him and let him run back to recover his body.

This is a good lesson not to get on anybody’s nerve.