There have been a few famous quotes on the subject – how much memory do you really need; how many GHz is enough; how much storage to hold all the books in the world; how many personal computers are enough for planet earth (let alone a single family), etc., etc. - I’ll stay away from predicting the future and just talk about what I need today. 2 THz processor I need a 2THz processor. It took me 5 hours (300 minutes) to encode a family video to MP4 (H.264 720p) on a dual-core 2.66GHz machine. It is...

As my home router’s “blocked web sites” list slowly began to fill up with open proxies (kproxy.com, getus.in, vtunnel.com, browse007.com, and anonymouse.org, etc.), I realized that it’s time to stop blocking and start monitoring. DLink DIR-655 Event Logging My DLink DIR-655 (great little router) contains an event logging feature that can send events, SYSLOG-style, over the network to a collector. <110>Mon Aug 10 20:32:30 2009 DIR655 System Log: Web site geekswithblogs.net/ accessed from 192.168.1.91...