Tips on Preserving Your iPhone's Battery Life

Battery life - the constant concern of cell phone users everywhere. And if you own an iPhone-which functions not only as a communication device but is also capable to run literally hundreds of applications-loss of battery life can feel like the end of the world: your communication world, that is. The good news is that there are a variety of ways to help preserve your iPhone's battery life, just as long as you follow some simple pointers.

Before we explore ways to reserve iPhone battery life, let's cover some specs. Your iPhone has a rechargeable lithium ion battery, which lasts 300 hours in stand-by, 12 hours in talk mode, 30 hours in audio playback, and 10 hours in video playback. Battery life decrees by around 20% after about 500 charges. Also keep in mind iPhone batteries have to be maintained for the entire life of the phone-the battery is clearly embedded within the iPhone itself, so it can not be replaced-so it must be charged at all times. Having this information is critical to understanding how to get the best performance from your iPhone battery. However, knowing what the battery is capable of does not cover what you can do to conserve that battery power.

First off, make sure that there are not a number of applications left running on your phone post-purchase. Turning off applications such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth can go a long way to preserving battery life. Second: chargers, chargers, chargers! There are reliably inexpensive chargers available for every location you can imagine. A popular charger is a 2 in 1 that can be used with a wall socket or plugged into a computer's USB port. Since technology is constantly being upgraded, there is even a new solar powered battery on the market. This charger works by converting sunlight into iPhone charging energy. This charger also has the ability to store energy as a back-up for later use-almost guaranteeing you will not ever run out of juice. One final charging tip: Apple recommends that you standardize the iPhone battery by completely draining it of its charge at least once a month, then recharging it fully.

Getting a charge out of your iPhone and then keeping it as simple as following these guidelines. Making sure you're always fully powered is the best way of preserving the amazing capabilities of your new iPhone.

Rabbit Business

There are many people who prefer business than any stable job because they feel that conducting business is an opportunity that can enhance their growth and development. Before you indulge in any business endeavor, you know that there are other businesses that doom to fail but it can be avoided if you prepare for it and you handle it properly. Do not let any bad experience stop or kill your business dream. If you are ready for the risks and challenges, you should do your best to make your business a reality. There are many things that you can use for you to be successful, do not worry. You just need to put your heart to it, believe in what you do and more importantly bring along a lot of attitude like patience, persistence and hard work. With these things, for sure success will be yours in no time.

Preparing for the business is not an easy thing because it needs a lot of research, decision-making and time. You should first determine what business you are willing to undertake. We know that there are many lucrative business ideas in the market these days but you should see to it that you are actually addressing a demand. In this case if you see or feel the demand or need of rabbits in your place, you can begin with that. Rabbit business is good because they are known for their rapid reproductive rate; you can get meat from them, furs and more importantly many laboratories employ them for important experiments. It is important that you conduct market research first so that you will know the situation of the market you are going to enter. Business proposals should also be considered; you should thoroughly include important details like the capital vent, the proposed area, facilities, manpower and the like. But if you want to start small, you are welcome to do that. Here are some things that you can check to make your rabbit business a success:

1. If you start small, you should provide rabbits with a good living condition. Few hutches will do with water system, proper ventilation and feed hopper. If you want to expand, it is time to get a larger place and install cooling or heating systems.

2. It is important that there is someone who will exceed their condition. It could be your veterinarian or someone who knows how to take care of rabbits especially if they are many. This is important so that you will maintain their cleanliness and prevent the outbreak of disease. Outbreaks are bad for business.

3. More importantly, you should make sure that your rabbit farm is complaint with your local laws. You should follow the standard like sanitation and other things because if you do not, you will be penalized or worst, your business will be closed for good.

Indeed business is a risky thing but if you handled it properly, it can become one of your greatest achievement. Just believe in what you do and love it because it can make a great difference at the end of the day. Rabbit business is good. Go and prosper!

Your Virtual Reality

You are not going to like this, but the odds are uncomfortable high that your physical reality is not physical at all, but virtual. In other words, you do not exist with the substance and structure you think you exhibit. Even though you may play various simulation or video games, you in turn are being played, or at least programmed, by persons or things unknown. So here is the Simulation Hypothesis, otherwise known as the Simulated (Virtual Reality) Universe scenario, in review.

Premise: There exists technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations (the exact number is of no consequence) and / or our descendants qualify as having constructed an advanced terrestrial civilization, way in advance of that in the early 21st Century.

Premise: Such civilizations, ours or heads, not only possess advanced technology, but have and do experience exponential growth in those and ever newer technologies.

Premise: Such civilizations do not become extinct.

Premise: Such civilizations build and run simulations, just as we in the early 21st Century do. The reasons are numerous. There are simulations for research purposes, fun and profit, educational training, etc.

Premise: There are vastly more simulated worlds and beings than there are real worlds and befits if our own here and now is anything to go by given the ever prolongation of video games, etc.

Premise: Consciousness or awareness can be simulated. Consciousness or awareness is what you are, but you are just information, a code, an alphabet constructed out of letters that form words that form sentences that form paragraphs that form chapters that extremely form you - you're a book in human form. You can reduce any life form down to its genetic code - information. Information can be coded as bits and bytes. In essence your uniqueness is just a barcode and your consciousness or awareness is just the interactions of your barcode with all the rest of the sets of software that combine the Simulation (Virtual Reality) Universe scenario.

If the above six are awarded, then the conclusion is that it is highly likely that we are 'living' in a simulation. The logic is sound. If you reject the conclusion, you must reject one or more of the six initial promises and there could be no if, ands or buts about your objection. There could be no possible counter objections or exceptions to your objection or rejection of any one or more of the concessions. For example, you might object and say that such civilizations do go extinct before developing advanced simulation technologies, but that would have to apply 100% across the board.

Let's start with the assumption that you do not really exist in a really real reality. Instead, you are virtual reality, a creation (along with the rest of life, the Universe and everything) by a flesh-and-blood fallible Supreme Programmer that created software that resulted in our Simulated (Virtual Reality) Universe. What types of things might follow from such a scenario?

In case that idea freaks you out, reflect that even if you have just exhausted as bits and bytes (instead of a collection of elementary particles and forces), it does not alter one jot anything you did or did not do in your past , whether or not you are pleased with anything you have or have not completed. Whatever runs you have on the board are still there.

Being a virtual being will not alter one jot anything about your future. Since the software controls life, the Universe and everything, once the initial parameters were set, everything became deterministic, even if not predictable to mortals (of which the Supreme Programmer is one). The Universe, of which you are a part, is unfolding as it should. The fact that the output is not predictable should not be surprising since that's the point of doing a simulation. What's the point of doing a simulation if you already know what the income is going to be?

Free Will: A software generated universe would not give you the option of free will. Even for quite different reasons, many people believe that they do not have any free will and yet they still go through life quite content with whatever their deterministic runs are on the board happened to be, so a sudden discover that you do not have free will because you are pre-programmed bits and bytes should not unplug your heating pad. If you stop and reflect on things, even if you do have free will it is so constrained by physics, chemistry and biology and by society that you might as well stuff most of it in a box and bury it.

If you're still freaked out, it does not quite matter what your chair is made of tiny strings; electrons, neutrons and protons; a quantum wave function; or bits and bytes? You can still sit in it! That's your bottom's line! If your simulation is as good (or better) that really real reality, what's the difference?

Billions and billions of people have come and gone never ever even conceiving of the possibility of a virtual reality world, and though none the wiser, their virtual reality had absolutely no bearing on what they thought they were, what kind of life they thought they had led, and all the things they completed and patted themselves on the back for.

So what are some of the opportunities of the Simulation (Virtual Reality) Universe scenario?

For starters, you have an explanation of why there is something rather than nothing - a philosophical quandary that ranks right up there with the Big Questions of reality. Software is a something and you can not have a virtual reality or a simulation without those bits and bytes.

Ageing: At the moment of your conception your aging process began yet there would appear to be no theoretical reason for the aging process Regardless, there appears to be nothing you can do about this or its inevitable conclusion. Your health will decline with aging until you die. Even if you spend your existence in some sort of 'safe house' free from accidents and deliberate acts of malice against you; even if all the air you breathed was filtered free from harmful bacteria and viruses and pollutants; even if you ate a perfectly balanced diet of three meals a day with all foods free of artificial colors, flavors and ingredients and everything was 100% 'organic' with lots of fruits and vegetables; even if your water was distilled and absolutely pure; even if you took no drugs like caffeine or nicotine or alcohol; even if every moment of every day was absolutely stress free; even if you got your eight hours of sleep a day; even if you got lots of exercise, both mental and physical, you will still age and go downhill toward that bucket which you will kick. You can not prevent that complex biochemical aging time bomb that's inherently inside you and which emerged from the simplicity of your conception. As I said, there does not appear to be any physical, chemical or biological reasons why you should age. On the other hand, that could have considered one of the consequences or subroutines of your software program

Death: If life is an emergent property of the cosmos, then death is an emergent property of life, though if you can stay clear of accidents, murder, or disease, there would appear to be little reason for one to kick the bucket since there is no theoretical reason why a living organism has to die a natural death providing the body continuously receives an adequate supply of all resources required for life (food, oxygen or carbon dioxide (if a plant), water, etc.). However, entropy will not be denied and there is nothing you can do (at least in the here and now) about it no matter how well you follow doctor's orders. Again, sometimes death is just one of those programmed in subroutines of your software programming.

Afterlife: Although many people believe in an afterlife, or at least would like to, they would be hard-pressed to come with logical or scientific reasons how it could actually come to pass other than God says so. However, in the Simulated (Virtual Reality) Universe, an afterlife is just a software program away, as 'easy' as constructing as your normal programmed virtual 'life'. It's just end software subroutine Jane Doe's 'life'; begin software subroutine Jane Doe's 'afterlife'. The other interesting possibility here is that the sort of afterlife your culture instilled into you will be the one that you receive, even though concepts of the afterlife broadly from culture to culture.

God: The Simulated (Virtual Reality) Universe scenario has no impact on theological belief systems. If you believe in God, then you argue that God created the Supreme Programmer. If your theology is flexible, you could believe that the Supreme Programmer is a 'god' or passes for a deity. If you're an atheist, you still have your faith against the existence of a supernatural being, of which the Supreme Programmer is not - supernatural that is. You can give God the big thumbs down while acknowledging ET having some fun with a software program. But you've got to wonder how the major organized trilogy of monotheistic religions are going to react when they discover that their God is actually some teenage computer geek who created our life, the universe and, well, virtual everything as a science project!

External Reality: There would reliably little effect on what you perceive about your external reality. It would probably be a reflection of really real reality (RRR). That is without you came across an anomaly or a miracle, something that most would say "it can not be there it is not" to counter your "I know what I saw". I mean witnessing such an out of the ordinary things as crop circles, Sasquatch (Bigfoot), the Loch Ness Monster or a sea serpent, a ghost or a host of other paranormal or pseudoscientific mysteries that are unexplained phenomena.

Quantum Physics: Quantum physics is all around (and inside) of you, and has to be counted as part of your really real reality (RRR). Quantum physics would have to qualify as one of those 'paranormal' anomalies. Any physicist who tells you with a straight face that quantum physics is not very anomalous is a very good actor and superb liar. However, you are illegally to detect the anomalies unless you are conversant with quantum physics and look for the anomalies as a matter of course. Everything appears normal, but looks can be very deceiving.

Fine-Tuning: It's been noted by many that quite a few of the laws, principles and relationships of physics, and chemistry too, have values ​​such that if those values ​​varied by even a small amount, biology would not be possible. In fact, in some cases chemistry would not be possible, nor even much of physics. This calls for an explanation. The first is that it's all blind luck - sometimes you get dilet a royal flush on the very first hand of your very first poker game. The second explanation is that there exists a Multiverse - thousands, millions, billions, even trillion of universes each with a different set of those laws, principles and relationships of physics. 99.999% of those universes will not be suitable for biology (as we know it) or even chemistry or much of physics for that matter, but just based on sheer probability, a tiny few will turn out to be a Goldilocks (bio-friendly) universe. The initial objection I have is not with the concept of a Multiverse, but with the idea that the laws, principles and relationships of physics will be different in each of the various universes. There's no explanation of why this must be so. Of course that does not alter why our Universe is bio-friendly, and that's what counts, otherwise we would not be here, would we? Explanation number three is of course God and intelligent design. We're here because God designed in the beginning a bio-friendly Universe and a bio-friendly Planet Earth. The concept of God has so much baggage that I have lots of trouble accepting that explanation. But I do like the variation on the theme - the Supreme Programmer. If you are going to design software for a simulation or a video game, etc. you have got to intelligently design that software to keep those inconsistencies or oops to an absolute minimum, if not ideally zero. The simulation or video game has to be a viable simulation or video game, or in other words, a Goldilocks simulation or a bio-friendly video game.

SETI: Why can not radio or other astronomers find any evidence for ET? - Because because extraterrestrials were never programmed into the VR software.

The End: Computers (or CD and DVD players which run 'software' in the form of CDs or DVDs) come with all manner of controls. You can hit the 'pause' bottom to freeze the action in time or the 'stop' button to recycle the action back to the beginning. You can hit 'enter' or 'play' to unfreeze the action or to start or restart the action. In many cases you can hit the 'delete' button. If our simulated world is embedded in software in a typical computer (we're unlikely to be encoded on a CD or DVD but who knows) then 'The End' can come at any moment (sort of like what Christians keep saying about their Second Coming, the apocalypse or Armageddon).

The Supreme Programmer could hit 'pause' which means life, the Universe and everything just freezes until the Supreme Programmer hits 'play' again. We'd never be aware of that 'missing time' any more than the characters in a DVD film are aware of the time lapse if you hit the pause button to go answer the phone while watching their film. The Supreme Programmer could hit the 'stop' button to recycle everything back to the beginning. We would not be aware of that until sometimes such time as our recycles moment in the sun came around again and we got that feeling of déjà vu. The Supreme Programmer could possibly tweak his software with a downloadable update which might also serve to wipe our memories of 'before the tweak' so that we would not notice any discrepancies between the 'before' and the 'after'. Or, if our virtual memory was not wiped with the upgrade, then that might account for why some of our physical 'constants' do not seem to be quite so constant after all. Rewritten over software may also account for phantoms, both animate (like ghosts) and inanimate. Lastly, the Supreme Programmer is finished and the program ends. Of course the Supreme Programmer could now rerun the program, or tweak / upgrade it and rerun it. It's interesting to note how many cosmologies, especially ancient ones like the Maya and Hindus, have a recycling cosmology: cosmic Birth - cosmic existence - cosmic death; cosmic birth - cosmic existence - cosmic death. Even Christianity promises a new heaven and a new earth after those 'end of days' or the 'end times'. Of course the Supreme Programmer could just hit the 'delete' button and that's just the End of our virtual life, the virtual Universe and the virtual everything; or perhaps accidently drop the computer smashing it to smithereens; or spill his coffee over the keyboard; Egypt may the hard-drive crashes; or maybe the Supreme Programmer just turns the computer off and dies before ever turning it back on. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a fade-to-black.

Due Diligence in Real Estate Transactions: Know Your Energy Efficiency

For real estate transactions, knowing the energy efficiency of the building is an important step in due diligence. Use of the new ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) Standard E-2797-11, Standard Practice for Building Energy Performance Assessment for a Building Involved in a Real Estate Transaction, is required in several states and cities and under consideration in others. Federal legislation is also being discussed.

Why would someone want to know this?

More energy-efficient buildings cost less to operate, have higher net operating income (NOI), better asset value, and are more attractive to tenants. More reasons:

• Property owners and lessors can leverage higher performing buildings to attract and retain tenants, who know that these buildings will have lower utility and operating costs.
• Potential buyers can make a better choice between similar properties.
• It provides a proven baseline from which to develop improvement programs.
• In many cases, the Pro Forma given to lenders has a line item for utilities under building operating costs.
• The Standard is obtaining more and more acceptance, and may be combined with regulations requiring Level 1 Site Assessments for environmental issues and Property Condition Assessments. Each of these have their own Standards for performing the related audit.

The Standard accomplishes several important actions:

• Establishes a practice for collection, assembly, evaluation, and reporting required information.
• Ensures consistency in reporting
• Supplements a Level 1 Site Assessment for environmental issues and / or a Property Condition Assessment as part of the Due Diligence process.
• Ensures that the process itself is consistent, transparent, and reliable and serves as an industry-wide Standard.

What happens next?

While knowing how well a building fulfills in terms of energy efficiency is important for real estate transactions, it is also the first step in planning energy efficiency improvements that cut operating costs and provide additional benefits. This process is more involved than one might expect; there is a remarkable amount of information that has to be considered and it requires specialized knowledge, skills, and abilities that only an expert can provide.

The process of improving Due Diligence and relativity of energy audits is ingoing; during May, I served as a one of a panel of 14 commercial building energy auditor subject matter experts at a workshop funded by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The purpose of the workshop was to identify and catalog all the activities - Job Task Analyzes (JTAs) and Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) - needed to successfully complete a building energy audit using the most reliable guidelines, standards, and analysis tools , such as those provided by ENERGY STAR, ASTM, ANSI, ASHRAE, and the Department of Energy. The results of the study will be a set of national guidelines for use by organizations in developing and improving training curriculum and for use by the General Services Administration and the Department of Energy. My hope is that as the DOE and GSA require contractors meet these criteria, it will lead to an industry-wide practice, additional recognition of the profession, and improved energy and cost savings for building owners and operators.

Prediction of Sudden Gains and Unexpected Prosperity in Astrology

In today's world, most of the people wish to earn a lot of wealth and prosperity in their life, for fulfillment of their desires. Sometimes they choose risky steps to gain sudden benefits and prosperity.

Lottery, shares, gambling, speculation are risky methods employed for sudden gains.While hidden treasures and unexpected inheritances also accounts for sudden prosperity and richness of the native.

Factors responsible for sudden and expected gains in astrology

· 2nd house: income, inflow of finances, Self earned wealth, worldly holdings

· 4th house: comforts, parental inheritance, assets, land, vehicles

· 5th house: sudden gain, lottery, gambling, speculations etc.

· 7th house: business travels

· 8th house: shares, hidden transactions, other people's money, dowry of wife, gain from in laws, finances through unfair means, inheritance

· 9th house: easy gains, fate

· 11th house: accumulated wealth, fluctuating money gains

· Sun: sudden gains from royal or govt. sources.

· Moon: gains from liquid or glazy types of things, gains from abroad.

· Mars: Sudden prosperity from engineering, publications, police, landed properties agriculture, accounts, investment in medicines

· Mercury: sudden gains from intellects or creative nature of mankind

· Jupiter: gains from saints or bank men, rules banking shares, money, gold and other precious saleable items like diamonds and precious gems

· Venus: sudden gains from music, cinema, vehicles medicines, literary activities, photographed items

· Saturn: Sudden money

· Rahu: trigger the unexpected events in the life, sudden gains from evil sources, fluctuating gains

Different combinations for sudden prosperity

· Sudden and unexpected gains are not noticed whenever 2nd, 7th and 11th lords posited in ascendant and aspected by Jupiter.

· For gains in lotteries, speculations or for any sudden unexpected gains 2nd, 5th, 8th, 11th homes and their lords should be interrelated. Well-placed and well-aspected

· For financial status and gains, ascendant, 2nd, 9th and 11th houses and their lords should have considered.

· Strength of 5th house and 5th lord connected with the above is required for gains in gambling, speculation, races, lotteries, contracts, etc.

· Strength of 8th house and 8th lord connected with the above is required for gain in dowry, inheritance, wills, adoption, awards, prizes, secret wealth etc.

· Consideration of 4th, 7th and 10th houses is needed to judge the source and type of gains.

· Inauspicious homes and planets placed in them are consider for gains and accumulation in life (3/6/10 / 11th are inauspicious homes).

Different modes responsible for sudden gain in life:

Lottery and Gambling

· Strength of 5th house / lord is the important significator of gains in lotteries and gambling.

· The other significator houses for lottery gains and gambling are 2nd, 6th, 8th and 11th.

· Moon is posited in 5th house and expected by Venus, indicating sudden gain from lottery.

· The 6th house / lord has an important role in gambling. If the 6th and 11th lords are together occupying 11th house, the native wins in lottery and gambling. The combination of the strong 6th and 11th lords is always good for gambling and lottery.

· The 6th and 9th lords combine in 11th house, the native owners intense money through lottery or gambling.

· Favorite combination of Saturn and Rahu favors gambling especially in indoor games.

· The lords of 6th and 11th and Saturn are in the 11th house, the native wins in dice game or cards through underhand tricks and by puzzling or mesmerizing his opponents.

· Mercury being 5th lord occupying 6th house causes loss in speculations. If the 5th lord Venus is in the 12th house with 6th lord the native will lose in gambling being addicted to the same. If there are many malefic planets placed in 12th house the native should not invest money in gambling or lottery as he will always lose.

· The Lords of 5th and 2nd house exchange places.

· Mercury in 11th house in own sign conjoined with 6th lord.

· Mars, Venus, Saturn and Rahu conjoined in Virgo.

· All planets occupying 2th / 6th / 8th / 12th signs.

· The lord of 5th and 11th conjoined in 5th house with a node [Rahu / Ketu].

· 2nd and 11th lords conjoining in 5th with benefice aspects

· Jupiter alone in 5th or 8th in exaltation or own house is able to give sudden, unexpected gains.

· The Ascendant / 5th / 8th / 11th lords placed in the same houses.

· The 5th and 8th lords exchange signs, and the lord of ascendant is in good aspect with either of the two.

· 2nd lord in the 5th, 5th lord in 11th, 11th lord in 2nd house (or 2nd / 5th / 11th lords conjoined in 2nd).

· The lords of 5th and 11th houses exchange houses.

· The lords of ascendant, 2nd and 5th are related or conjoined.

· The lords of ascendant, 5th and 9th conjoined.

· The Ascendant is strong and 2/5/8 / 11th lords in exaltation.

· The benefices planets occupation 5th and 8th houses.

Underground or hidden treasures beneath or buried in the soil

· Lord of ascendant is placed in 2nd house, Lord of 2nd is placed in 11th house and lord of 11th is posed in ascendant, the native will get sudden mysterious hidden treasures in his life.

· Lords of 2nd and 4th are placed in 9th house, with a benefice.

· Lords of 11th and 2nd placed in 4th house, with a benefice.

· Lord of 11th is placed in 4th house, combines with a benefice.

Shares and speculations

· The Moon, Mercury and 6th lord in 11th house indicates money through share market.

· Lords of 6th and 11th combine in 12th house indicates loss in speculation.

· Ascendant's lord, Moon, Sun and are being in beneficial aspects

· The Moon-Mars combine in 2nd, 5th, 8th or 11th house.

· The Jupiter in 2nd, the Mercury in 5th and the Moon in 11th house respectively.

Unexpected inheritance

· The Moon, 4th / 2nd / 5th houses / lords are related, indicates sudden inheritance from mother.

· Lords of 2nd and 4th combine in ascendant indicators sudden gain from mother.

· The lords of 2nd and 8th lords are related, gives unexpected gains.

· Leo ascendant with 12th lord in 8th house gives the formation of Vipareeta Raja yoga which results in unexpected massive wealth gain.

BY

GEETA JHA [SPIRITUAL HEALER]

INDIA

What Is Wardriving And How Can You Prevent It

Imagine a car equipped with nothing more than a laptop computer, a portable GPS receiver, and a wireless network card slowly strolls through your neighborhood. Unknown to any onlookers, this is no ordinary vehicle; rather, it is a wardriving machine. As the car strolls past homes and businesses, a wireless network card (available at any electronics store for as low as $25) scans for any wireless access points. Anyone with a wireless network (and there are many out there) is vulnerable. The computer is looking for what is called an SSID. An SSID is your wireless network name and it is being constantly transmitted by your access point, letting computers know of its presence. The wardriver uses software such as Netstumbler (for windows) or Cismet (for linux) to scan the airwaves for SSIDs. The program can track various access points at once and monitor the signal strength. These programs can also check to see if the network is encrypted. The wardriver will generally configure his or her software to log any strong unencrypted signals. Using the GPS receiver, the coordinates of the strong signal will be recorded. After this preliminary drive, the wardriver can return to the locations that were recorded, and connect to the access point. Once connected to an unencrypted network, the wardriver can use the victim's internet access, and can also explore computers on the network. If files are being shared within someone's private network, all of that information is susceptible to a wardriver. Furthermore, once in the network, a wardriver can sniff network traffic and can view any information such as passwords and credit card numbers you send out to the internet - even SSL secured data. Wireless network vulnerability is a major problem, and as more and more households purchase wireless technology, the problem of insecure networks increases. Sound scary? Well this happens every day, and it doesn't take an expert to pull off. It doesn't take an expert to protect against either, however.

Steps you can take to protect against wardrivers:

There are a number of very simple steps you can take to protect your wireless network. For many of these, you will have to access your router configuration utility (check your manual on how to do this, you will generally need to type an IP address into your browser such as 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1).

Don't broadcast your SSID. If you are broadcasting your SSID, this is the first thing a program will pickup and recognize. If you configure your router to not broadcast your SSID, it will be difficult to detect (but not impossible, for some software can sniff wireless communication, so if you are using your wireless network, the SSID can be revealed). If you are not broadcasting your SSID, but it can be guessed (such as if you are using a default SSID), cloaking is pointless. Due to this, remember to change your SSID from the factory default. This is not a 100 percent effective method to secure your network, but it is a good first line of defense.

Change the default password. When you buy a router, a factory password is stored. People experienced in working with routers know the default passwords for different routers (and the make of the router can be seen by wardriver software such as netstumbler). It is important that you secure your router with a good password.

Encrypt your wireless communication. I can't stress the importance of encrypting your wireless communication enough. Enable encryption and enter a key. Most routers are only capable of WEP encryption, but if they permit, use EAP encryption, it's more secure than WEP. Like cloaking your SSID, encryption is not 100 percent secure. Given enough time and determination, if someone wants to target you and access your network, WEP encryption can be bypassed using software such as AirSnort.

Filter the MAC addresses that are allowed to connect to your router. This would require that you enter your router configuration and input the MAC address of each wireless card you have. This will restrict access so that only your computers can connect to the router. You will need to obtain the MAC address (which is the individual identification address of a network card in the form a 12 digit hexadecimal number). If someone sniffs traffic and detects the MAC address of a computer wirelessly using your network, the wardriver could emulate that address and connect to the router, but this takes time.

If you configure file sharing on your computers, make sure it is password protected. You should not share files on your networked computers unless it requires an authenticated user to access. Set up the same user accounts on your machines so that your computers can share files.

With these relatively simple steps, wireless network users can secure their networks from wardrivers. Wireless networks are inherently insecure, and these tips will merely help you greater secure your network. If someone is really determined to gain access to your network, given enough time, a good hacker can get access. These tips will deter the average wardriver from gaining access to your network, however. Although these methods are not definite security measures, they will change your network from being something that can be hacked in a matter of seconds, to something that will take a determined hacker days if not weeks of work, all of which will have to be done while in close proximity to your network.

New Roof Installation and the Benefits Provided

Any roofing structure is going to take plenty of abuse during its lifespan. Rain, snow, hail, sweltering temperatures, and fallen branches all play their parts in damage or breaking down a building's roof. Hiring roofing companies to provide preventative maintenance is a great way for a building owner to ensure that the roof holds up for its intended project lifeespan. However at some point, it actually makes more sense for a building owner to install a new roof. This article will highlight a few of the reasons that installing a new roof will be more beneficial to an individual than continuing to maintain the existing roof.

Eliminate leaks and repairs

Leaks are a major issue for building owners, because when they make their way into the building, they can create slip-and-fall potentials for building occupants. For store or office managers, a slip-and-fall incident can mean thousands of dollars in litigation. Even when the leak is unseen from inside the building, it can cause the growth of mold that threatens the health of individuals with allergies. Other external repairs like replacing shingles or decay caused by water buildup will also be necessary over time. When required repairs continue to increase and leaks become more common, these issues and the problems that cause will lead to higher costs for building owners. Rather than continuing to hire roofing companies to come in and patch up a problem, it will actually be more cost effective to put in a new roof. A roof built by competent builders will hold up for many years before major repairs are needed.

Acquire a new warranty

An older roof may have exceeded the life of the warranty it came with, assuming that it even came with a warranty. When reputable roofing companies provide a replacement roof, they will stand behind the quality of their work. Most will include a warranty at no additional charge, and those who do not will still offer a warranty that is less costly than any major repair. Some warranties will even cover regularly scheduled semi-annual inspections, so that problems are spotted and corrected before they have a chance to cause major damage. Thanks to the added level of protection provided by a warranty, a new roof will be more dependable and less expensive to maintain for the first few years after it is installed.

Increase property value

Building owners who are trying to sell a home or other structure will invest thousands of dollars to make the building more appealing to buyers. Yet many owners neglect to install a new roof. When making renovations, there are percentages that can be used to calculate which renovations will deliver the most return on investment (ROI.) A new roof is one of the best renovations when it comes to increasing property value and getting back a high percentage of what is spent on the renovation.

Building owners who are looking to eliminate leaks and repairs acquire a new warrantee, and increase property value should hire one of the trusted roofing companies to install a new roof.