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Peer Block … sucessor of age old Peer Guardian
Apr 24th
If you know what is Peer Guardian, then you are know what I am writing about. Peer Guardian have been used by great number of users in past many years. I think it was the best tool available out there that gives you ability to prevent specific IP or range of IPs from connecting to your machine !! The concept on which this app works is pretty simple, it just prevents any IP that is listed in your blacklist which you can create for your own or you can get it from sites like I-BlockLIst. This tool is specially useful when you are downloading from torrent. For example, many Linux flavors can be downloaded using torrent (for example UBUNTU).
Sharing via torrent is a little risky business. Because common principle on which torrent sharing is based means each downloader share portion of download (called Chunks) from their machine and tracker keeps track of which machine has which chunks. So basically all machines in swarm can actually see each other’s IP. In world where everything is connected with internet, IP is your address. And once someone have it, this can be used for number bad things.
SQL Server 2011 CTP is here !!
Nov 10th
Well, I wouldn’t believed it when I read it on few of my favorite sites like SSC and SQLBlogs … but it is actually here !! MSFT has released CTP for next version of SQL Server Code name “Denali”. From initial reading it looks like the next generation of SQL Server will have more enterprise features likely to concentrate more on large systems. As you know its CTP so it is still in process of changes and we will see many improvements before as final product.
I was actually trying to download the CTP copy, but it looks like server is getting hit hard. So I was getting timeout error at this very moment of writing blog. I hope that I will be able to grab it and make it work by this weekend.
Freeze the time … and protect your system !!!
Aug 25th
Well, it’s not title of new sci-fi movie where hero freezes time in order to save his computer from vicious villain 
… it’s about a software called Time Freeze by Wondershare. If you have known already, there is a really good site called Giveaway Of the Day, which gives away a licensed software everyday for free !!! In past this site has given many free but really good software including Anti-viruses, Firewalls, Utility Software, designing software etc. And today they are giving away this really cool app. by Wondershare.
I am already using a sandboxing software called SandBoxie (free)… and Time Freeze is doing same. If you are like me and do lots of web surfing to unknown new site or say you love to “experiment” with your OS by installing new software / games etc. then this is the right thing for you. By creating virtualized system, it prevents any kind of harm that can be done because of viruses, software or even by yourself 
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