Archive for February, 2010

Opting out of personalized advertising

February 21, 2010

Web advertising is a necessary evil.  Ninety-nine percent of online contents are “free”.  You need not to shell out a credit card or pay for services like email, news, games and online storage.  However, to support all this “free” service web advertising is the main revenue for website owners.  Microsoft advertising displays ad that are relevant to your Bing search history and places them along your search queries.  You can opt out of the personalized ads through this link.  Once you complete this form MS will place a cookie on your PC to disable tracking.  If you delete this cookie the opt out setting is also removed and you will have to redo the opt out process.

However, this only eliminate “personalized” advertising.  It does not eliminate advertising at all.  The ads will still be there based on your current search and not on past searches.  All this really does is eliminate the tracking cookie that Microsoft uses to keep a history of your searches.

Huffington Post and Google Buzz

February 18, 2010

It is interesting to see that The Huffington Post asking users to follow them on Google Buzz on an article about a class action suit against Google Buzz.  The article said

sfgate.com:

A class action complaint filed in San Jose federal court alleges that Google Inc. broke the law when its controversial Google Buzz service shared personal data without the consent of users.

How to change your admin password on D-Link DIR-655N router

February 1, 2010

Recently, I upgraded my old D-Link D-624 to a D-Link DIR-655N router so that my laptops can benefit from the 802.11 N speed.  It’s supposedly 14x faster and 6x further than the previous 802.11 g, according to the manufactures website.  Also, it is backwards compatible with any802.11 g devices.

One of the first thing I did after setting up the hardware is to change my admin password.  It’s one of the easiest things to do that can protect you from nearby hackers.  The default user id and password for most D-Link router is

Username=admin

Password= (leave blank)

and the router address is usually 192.168.0.1.

Step 1. In your browser type in 192.168.0.1 and hit enter

Step 1a. At this prompt page just hit log in since there is no default password

Step 2. Click on Tools and there under Admin Password go ahead and change it to something you can remember, then click Save Settings.

Short and simple.  Make sure you close out your browser and try to log in with the password you just entered.


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