The number and variety of free e-mail services is astounding. These are a few of the most popular free email services. Microsoft Hotmail Microsoft Hotmail is the leading free email service, with approximately one third of the market. Microsoft Hotmail provides a 250MB mailbox, with a limit of 10MB for attachments. Hotmail provides protection from viruses and junk email. Yahoo Mail Yahoo Mail is the second most popular free email service, trailing Microsoft Hotmail by only three percentage points. Yahoo Mail provides a 1GB mailbox, with a limit of 10MB Read More

Sonicwall is a company that produces routers, modems, VPN (Virtual Private Network) hardware, and firewall solutions for both personal and commercial users. Sonicwall routers, in particular, are widely distributed to an array of consumers who access the Internet through high speed secure connections due to the support that Sonicwall products provide. Sonicwall routers generally consist of one or two omni-directional antennas, advanced WPA encryption, and four LAN ports for Ethernet connections. Sonicwall Default Password Sonicwall users can access their router’s control panel in order to setup wireless encryption, connect wireless Read More

Using dual monitors refers to using two physical display devices to increase the viewing space running on a single computer. Microsoft Windows Operating Systems and Mac OS X now support dual and multiple monitor configurations. Setting up dual monitors is easy. However, it requires the user to add a second video card or install a video card that can support a dual head or two separate physical outputs. The following instructions are for those with only one video card installed in their computers: Make sure that the computer is working Read More

CAS latency is short for Column Address Strobe latency. CAS latency is the time (in clock cycles) required to access a column of memory on a DRAM memory module. A CAS3 rated memory module requires 3 clock cycles to address a column of memory, where a CAS2 rated memory module can accomplish the same task in only two clock cycles. Three steps are required to address DRAM on a memory module, such as a DIMM: Memory bank selection Memory row selection (Row Address Strobe) Memory column selection (Column Address Strobe) Read More

A dictionary attack consists of trying “every word in the dictionary” as a possible password for an encrypted message. A dictionary attack is generally more efficient than a brute force attack because users typically choose poor passwords. Dictionary attacks are generally far less successful against systems that use passphrases instead of passwords. Improving Dictionary Attacks There are two ways to improve dictionary attack success. The first way is to use a larger or more dictionaries. Technical and foreign language dictionaries increase the overall chance of discovering the correct password. The Read More

Windows error 619 occurs when a user attempts to reconnect a modem to the Internet after a successful connection and the computer fails to connect to the Internet. This error often forces users to restart their computer in order to successfully connect to their Internet Service Provider (ISP) and the Internet. This problem most commonly occurs on computers running the Windows XP operating system. Using third party applications that do not release the Winsock stack after being online also triggers it. Zone Alarm and Download Accelerator Plus are two of Read More