July 2005 Archives
Telus sucks. I'm sitting here at Vancouver International Airport. They want $8.00 for lousy wireless Internet access for ONE HOUR. For 24 hours, they want $15.00. $8.00 is ridiculous but offering 24 hours as the next option is plain stupid and corrupt. That, and this connection is barely maintained for 5 minutes before I drop off again. Gee, hope I can at least complete this rant at 80 words per minute. Telus - you deserve every bit of negative attention you get right now!!!!
You should never leave the front door open. While I can appreciate that you might want to enable Terminal Services directly to your desktop, at least make it a little difficult for attackers to find you.
Change the RDP port (TCP 3389) to anything else (avoiding reserved port numbers of course 1-1024). It only takes a few minutes and combined with a strong password, gives you better security than your neighbour - thus an attacker will move on to them and leave you alone... :-)
How to Change Terminal Server's Listening Port
What a great tool. Quick, easy and painless editing of GIFS using an ONLINE tool. Sweet for resizing an Animated Gif.
