This is a great article on using OpenDNS.  I’ve been using it for over a year now and it’s great.  I started using it when my ISP (Charter) started becoming slow to respond when I would try to follow a link to a website.  Sometimes it would time out completely and I would have to hit the Try again button on Firefox (you are using Firefox or Opera, aren’t you?).  It was a DNS issue at Charter.  I’ve had all of my computers plus my router set up to use it since then and I’ve had zero problems.

Follow the link and follow the instructions.

1. Enter about:config in the browser’s location bar
2. Type jit in the Filter box
3. Double-click the line containing javascript.options.jit.content and set the value to false

It’s also completely free by the way. Protect your family and your computers from the Internet by using this free service like I do.

The White House strategy of turning supporters into snitches when they see “fishy” information about the health care debate may run afoul of the law, legal experts say.

“The White House is in bit of a conundrum because of this privacy statute that prohibits the White House from collecting data and storing it on people who disagree with it,” Judge Andrew Napolitano, a FOX News analyst, said Friday.

“There’s also a statute that requires the White House to retain all communications that it receives. It can’t try to rewrite history by pretending it didn’t receive anything,” he said.

“If the White House deletes anything, it violates one statute. If the White House collects data on the free speech, it violates another statute.”

Napolitano was referring to the Privacy Act of 1974, which was passed after the Nixon administration used federal agencies to illegally investigate individuals for political purposes. Enacted after Richard Nixon’s resignation in the Watergate scandal, the statute generally prohibits any federal agency from maintaining records on individuals exercising their right to free speech.

This president more than any in history has feared and tried to squash dissent.  If you disagree, you are the enemy and are to be feared.  When will it become a crime to speak out against our great savior or should I say “Great Leader”?  only time will tell I suppose.  After he becomes our “Eternal President”?

Windows 7 is coming and I will actually upgrade to it… Probably about 3 months after hit comes out so that most of the bugs will be out of it.

It looks pretty good.  I’m running a copy of the Release Candidate on a virtual machine right now and it’s pretty solid but then that is on fake hardware.  I’ll be interested to see how it operates on actual hardware.

I’m still running XP on everything that I have, but in reality Vista is pretty solid now as well.  The problem is, as you can see in the linked story, that Vista is still slower than it should be.

We’re off to the technological races again.

Americans in particular are so used to freedom that we freely give out information that can very easily be used against us.  For instance, security questions to change email passwords can be found on most people’s personal websites or blogs or even just by asking them.  Hey, what’s your mother’s maiden name, etc…

Be careful out there.

CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!  This administration and the Democrats are doing their best to remove free speech from every aspect of American life.  They are making more moves every day to make it a reality.

If this weren’t enough, the FCC now has a “Diversity Officer” in charge of what?  Making sure that the Left’s views are heard and everything else is censored.

Is it me, or has President Obama already taken more vacations since taking office than most people take in 20 years?  He seems to be picking nice vacation spots to travel – with his family in tow – to push his takeover of healthcare (and take away our freedoms).

Do that many people really drive their kids to school?  My summer 13 minute drive to work becomes a 30 minute drive the day school starts back for kids.  Maybe it’s a Greenville, SC thing.  I don’t know.

When did we become entertainment directors for our children?  If you don’t have something planned for when their plans don’t pan out, they whine and complain about being bored.  Maybe I should get them a job working on a farm somewhere every time they complain about that.  It sure kept me busy when I was a kid.

Why do people buy lottery tickets expecting to win eventually while never believing they will be in an auto accident or struck by lightning when the former is much more likely than both the latter?

Is there anyone left in government who doesn’t believe that it’s the government’s job to run every aspect of our lives?

Does anyone except those claiming to be improving the economy actually see the economy improving any?

Pretty Awesome if you ask me:

Security firm FireEye has reportedly struck a massive blow against spam. The so called “Mega-D” or “Ozdok” spam botnet was effectively dismantled by these intrepid security researchers. After studying the beast, FireEye launched an attack by notifying ISPs, having command and control (CnC) domains removed, and then registering unused CnC domains.

Almost immediately, the spam ceased. No small feat, considering Ozdok was probably responsible for one third of the world’s spam. This takes the load off ISPs which were forced to filter the spam from this botnet. Individual users probably won’t notice much difference.