Using FTP Sites to Download Drivers & Software Faster!

     The focus of this article is to provide information on
other ways of easily downloading software and driver packages. Many sites are ridden with information that isn't necessary. With this method, we will be look at ftp sites to obtain the same software and drivers at less hassle. For all examples, I will be using Google as my primary search engine to perform the example searches.

An example search for finding these types of sites would be:

ftp:dell drivers

(Note: no spaces between ftp:dell)
This yields results such as:

http://ftp.dell.com/Pages/

A fast and efficient way to snag computer hardware drivers.

You could try for software too as in:

ftp.(vendor/brand).com

An example search would be:

ftp.adobe.com

That would yield results like:

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/

Lots of good Adobe software for the grabbing there. A lot of times even paid software can be found using these methods. That way if you happen to lose a CD you can easily find it, install it, put your product key in, and be good to go.

While these sites can be faster, looking through a long list can so things down, so make sure to ctrl+f and search directly on the
page for the computer model or software package you're looking for. 

Be sure to play around with the search terms. Another good one is:

(vendor/brand) index of/

An example search would be:

dell index of/

You might find some interesting/useful things following these methods.


Cheers and happy searching!

Installing Latest Version of Sublime Text 3 on Debian Systems

Hello,

A quick little guide of installing Sublime Text 3 on Debian Linux systems.

      For x86 systems:

1. Open up a terminal.

2. Type: wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/sublime-text_build-3059_i386.deb

3. Type: sudo dpkg -i sublime-text_build-3059_i386.deb

       For x64 systems:

1. Open up a terminal.

2. Type: wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/sublime-text_build-3059_amd64.deb

3. Type: sudo dpkg -i sublime-text_build-3059_amd64.deb

Congratulations! You now have Sublime Text 3 installed.

Note: In the above examples, 3059 is the current build number at the time of this writing. To check the build numbers and make sure you have the latest, check out: http://www.sublimetext.com/3 for a list of all the builds.

Happy text editing!

A Detailed Account of a Father Teaching His Daughter How to Code

Link here:

http://dancali.io/blog/a-74-step-account-of-my-7-year-old-daughters-first-programming-experience

This is really awesome. Having a daughter now, I can see myself totally doing this one day.

5 Year Old Finds X-Box Vulnerability

This is pretty sweet. Goes to show you that when testing software, YOU MUST TRY TO BREAK IT YOURSELF!!!

http://www.10news.com/news/5-year-old-ocean-beach-exposes-microsoft-xbox-vulnerability