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Link Round-Up: February 17, 2009

17 Feb 2009 Links

From Around the Web

55 Firefox Add-Ons To Increase Your Security And Privacy – Firefox add-ons that protect the user from various threats on the Internet. They have been divided into the categories Browsing, Cache, Cookies, Identity & Privacy, Passwords and Misc.

Ask Doctor Math – This site is an advice column for people seeking answers to the math problems that plague them. The doc discusses issues such as whether it’s possible to randomly generate a book, how colleges can profess a high teacher to student ratio, and why you should never play the lotto.

Christopher Poole – The Washington Post profiles the founder of the seminal internet forum 4chan, “moot”. He’s in debt, out of work, and trying to figure out how to make that matter.

Computer Repair Utility Kit You Can Run From a Thumb Drive – Technibble, the Australian site for aspiring computer techies, recently released the second version of its popular Computer Repair Utility Kit, a collection of 57 hand picked tools to help you diagnose and repair your Windows machine.

The Definitive Primer to the Pirate Bay Trial – New TeeVee walks you through the intricacies of the potentially historic Pirate Bay trial that started only today. Will filesharing even exist five years from now?

How to Properly Erase Your Physical Media – A full 40% of the used hard drives on eBay contain easily recoverable personal data. Use the following guide to ensure your personal data never makes it out into the wild.

Make your computer Blazingly Fast – Help Desk Geek runs down all of the ways to whittle down the time it takes your computer to perform vital processes, like booting and transferring files.

NASA’s 10 Greatest Achievements – Howstuffworks.com chooses from among the incredible feats on NASA’s résumé some of its greatest successes, beginning with the launch of the first U.S. spacecraft.

NetCat Crash Course – CatonMat runs down what you need to know about the utility people call the “Swiss Army knife” of Unix systems. Some of its features include port scanning, transferring files, port listening and it can be used a backdoor.

TinyChat – TinyChat is a service for creating simple, disposable chatrooms. There are no-frills, a deliberately limited feature set, and no accounts to sign up for. When you open a new room, TinyChat will simply create a new URL for you.