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Stop YouTube (s.ytimg.com) Video Camera Spying

Keith — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:05:34 -0600

Did you know that your camera enabled computer can spy on you? Did you know that by watching that video or playing that cute game you may be allowing a site to watch you? Did you know that YouTube (via s.ytimg.com) seems to be one such site?

Lean how stop this here.

How to telnet to a POP server that requires SSL

Keith — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:18:06 -0700

If you are anything like me, then every now and then you want to access a mail (POP3) server directly to sort out a problem without having a "helpful" email client get in the way. In these cases connecting to port 110 with telnet is the way to go.

But what about when the mail server has been set up to not allow plan-text connections (i.e. an SSL connection must be used)?

GMT timezone problem in Mac OS X

Keith — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:50:36 -0600

I have had an odd problem with my timezone settings on my Mac over the last few days, I went on holiday recently and (of course) I took my Mac, when I went to change the timezone I discovered that the settings would not "stick", and instead of going back to the timezone I started with, actually went to GMT.

In any case, I worked out what the problem was, so I thought I should post the solution in case anyone else has runs across the same thing.