I published a large file host list last month and good lots of positive and some negative feedback concerning the list. The list contained a lot of sites that allow users to upload free files to their website and share it with others. A negative aspect was that it only featured a few categories that were not that useful to find a host that suited special needs.

Jim Kissel of Open Source Migrations Limited wrote a nice article about a malicious email attack he encountered recently. He analyzes the email received and gives tips to secure Thunderbird, the free email program they use.

I bought my first pc and it was a bad one. I had not much experience with personal computers and needed one for work. It was badly assembled, lacked some of the features I wanted and was highly overpriced. After about 2 years of using this bad Pentium 75 I decided to make a list of pc parts for my new pc and build it myself.

Seems to be the time of the year where not only the nights but also the titles of my blog become longer and longer. I found something useful for all of you. I had the problem that some of my beloved firefox extensions would not work with firefox 1.5 until they were updated by the extensions programmers.

Everyone who has to work with different computers has enountered a problem like this. The bookmarks are different because you have no possiblity to synchronise them. It could be that you have a desktop pc and a laptop and want to use the same bookmarks wether you are using the notebook or the desktop computer.

Now thats an intersting article by Ernest Adams about the End of Copyright. Starting with Gutenberg he gives a rough introduction how copyright came into existance. The interesting part begins after this introduction. When the first photocpiers were introduced people started using them to copy parts of books for their own personal use. This was at first frowned at but later a fair-use law was introduced due to the massive amount of people who used the photocopiers.

The site programmingebooks has an interesting collection of free available e-books about programming languages. The list itself is a little bit chaotic but it contains many programming languages, like HTML, PHP, Perl, Java and C++.

Are you planning to buy a new computer or cpu, if the answer is yes the new tomshardware guide about cpus called “The Mother of All CPU Charts 2005/2006″ is the right article for you. All in all their compared about 50 cpus ranging from the very old Athlon 1400 Thunderbird to the brand new AMD flagship Athlon 64 FX-57 San Diego. Benchmarks are taken in various fields including of course Open GL and Direct X performance, which is the most important aspect of the test for gamers, to video, audio and application performance.

This is a very informative site that explains many cryptography concepts. He begins by defining cryptography as “the science of writing in secret code and is an ancient art” and mentions that the first documented use of dates back to 1900 BC Egypt.

After that he explains why cryptography is essential for todays internet communication: “cryptography is necessary when communicating over any untrusted medium, which includes just about any network, particularly the Internet.”

Ever thought about why your keyboard layout is the way it is today ? Why the first line starts with QWERTY and not some other letter sequence ? Wonder no more, the site “why qwerty was invented explains it all to us.