Posts Tagged ‘Tips & Tricks’

Spam Wars: Round 1… Fight!

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

No-Spam

My blog has been receiving a lot of spam lately, at a rate of about 50 dummy comments per day. As my current web hosting doesn’t allow me to open socket connections, a part of WordPress functionality (including Akismet, the spam checker plug-in shipped with WordPress) won’t work. I knew about the limitations and am currently looking for a hosting replacement (in fact, I guess I already found one). In the meantime, manual triaging so much spam was just becoming painful. :-(

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Don’t get fooled by “Full”!

Saturday, September 13th, 2008
BIOS screenshot of USB controller speed configuration

BIOS screenshot of USB controller speed configuration

Today, while browsing through my system’s BIOS for some tweaks, I noticed a strange sentence in my peripheral configurations:

Configures the USB 2.0 controller in HiSpeed (480Mbps) or FullSpeed (12Mbps).

Full-speed at 12 Mbps and Hi-speed at 480 Mbps? Damn, is this a typo in the BIOS textual description or am I missing something? I crawled the Web and found out that it was I who was confused: in fact, Hi-speed USB is the fastest one.

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