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Get a Netgear MR814 Wireless Cable/DSL Router for $50.
List Price $157.00
Buy.com price $77.05
Add to that a $30.00 Netgear mail-in-rebate, and your cost is $50.

The Model MR814 Wireless Router provides continuous, high-speed 11 Mbps access between your wireless and Ethernet devices. Also, the Model MR814 router enables your entire network to share an Internet connection through a cable modem or DSL modem that otherwise is used by a single PC.

Mac OS among least prone to attack. Data on more than 6,000 hacker groups reaching back to 1995, from mi2g’s SIPS (Security Intelligence Products & Systems) database produced a report on software vulnerabilities. The report showed, 1,162 new software vulnerabilities were discovered during the first 10 months of 2002, including vulnerabilities discovered in operating systems, server software, and third-party applications. Of these 1,162 vulnerablilites, fewer than 25 were attributable to the Macintosh operating system.

In contrast, Microsoft’s Windows operating system accounted for more than 500 vulnerabilities discovered affecting Windows operating systems. More than 200 vulnerabilities were discovered that affected the Linux operating system, according to the information released by mi2g, based in London.

The report also cited that 2002 was the worst year on record for digital attacks, with almost 58,000 attacks taking place during the first 10 months of the year. This is a 54 percent increase from 2001.

Have you ever wanted to change the look of your iTunes display? ResExcellence.com has many iTunes skins to choose from.

I don’t care what your friends have told you…..Memes Don’t Exist!

MacDesktops.com has thousands of desktop pictures to decorate your Mac. I thought I would pick out a couple of the more recent ones.

1. Bite Me!
2. view from Empire State Building in NYC
3. iHaul (for Elise)
4. I Love NY (from MacWorld)
5. Bryce Canyon
6. You will be MINE!
7. Sabino Canyon
8. where’s my Margarita?

I wonder if advertisers know how much more irritating pop up/under ads are on dialup.

Go ahead….knock Apple all you want. But you’ll never see Steve Jobs running around like a fat monkey foaming at the mouth.

MetaFilter is on MetaVacation.

Robert Cringely’s latest column, The Death of TCP/IP: Why the Age of Internet Innocence is Over, is an excellent read. He touches on many of Microsoft’s flaws with the upcoming Windows XP, and its problem of raw TCP/IP socket exposure. Will we have a new TCP/IP protocol? Will is be TCP/MS? Will Microsoft finally own the Internet? ....read on. [via: backupbrain]