Today, I made a revolutionary(1) discovery. You see when I try to sign into msn, if I'm loading a webpage, checking e-mail or downloading something, it invariably times out. It wasn't going fast enough to connect in time. This is odd, because while my connection is rubbish (56k, with like a mile long lead to the nearest plug) I still get reasonable speeds, and it should connect if it's trying to for a minute. So I figure that MSN is sending rather a lot of information back and forth between my computer and MSN hq for evil nefarious means.
To prove this I decided to conduct and entirely un-scientific test. I stopped everything else internet related and opened up the dial up properties thing, recorded how much data had gone out and come in this session. Signed into MSN, and then recorded how much data had gone out and come in. Lo and behold to my great suprise, it transmitted next to nothing (well 6k from me to them, and 20k from them to me) which is like nothing for a relatively secure service (this site is about 30k or so if it wasnt' all zipped up).
So in conclusion. MSN doesnt' send all your private information to microsoft when you sign in. Which is kinda boring.
On a less boring note, this game rocks my world, as does this site, he so has written the best article ever on Evangelical Ghettoism
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this reminds me SO much of Donkey Kong Country on the SNES!!!!
where do you find these non-sense sites? Man you must have SOOO much time on you hands! Ha ha. Oh, merely a dream for me!
This internetmonk.com site is good. There is an excellent article on the young earth lunacy. http://www.internetmonk.com/creation.html
Must read the rest some time.
2 hours of internet usage every monday after school, where I help with the after schools club, and more specifically run the computer bit. So they end up playing fun games on that miniclip site, while I end up a)Playing the same games b)fixing the computers and c)reading random websites that have lots of geeky content. (y)
And I forgot msn ran on another port. Very odd... I wish it ran over an open source protcol like http, so then everyone could talk to everyone regardless of the system they used.
did you know tomorrow i'm seeing radiohead? oh you did? oh so are you? hooray!!!! i was randomly given a radiohead t-shirt today. it's white, OKC-era, with 'What A Clean City [I'm Kinda Sleep ee] Call An Ambulance'. i will be wearing it. that's how to identify me.
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The real question is! - what port does MSN use to transmit/receive data? After a series of research I found it is Port 1080, wich as you should know, is not a common port. This leads us back to - what slows walley's p.c. down?