Get Help on Setting Up Your Router

Do you need help in properly setting up your router? You can go to PortForward.com for router or firewall setup guides and reviews.

"... is proud to offer help setting up port forwarding on your router or firewall. Many Internet users are not aware of how to configure their router or firewall in order to use applications like Peer-to-Peer file sharing (PtoP), Internet Games, Web serving, FTP serving, WebCams, IRC DDC, and Instant Messaging such as AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and MS Messenger." [PortForward.com]

You can get lots of info and walkthroughs about setting up port forwarding, depending on the application you want to use.

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Knoppix Linux on a USB Device

Tom's Hardware explores the concept of putting Knoppix Linux on a portable USB device. The purpose is to create an indispensible item in a mobile technical toolkit.

In and of itself, a portable USB rescue kit is an excellent multi-purpose tool for Windows and Linux machines that support bootstrapping from USB devices. Further modifications to the Knoppix platform are also possible. In fact, there are many publicly available examples, ranging from standards-compliant forensic analysis suites to graphical information systems and specialized computational platforms. The only limit on what you can use this type of tool to accomplish is the time and effort you want to spend building - and learning how to use it, of course. [Tom's Hardware]

The in-house testing involved a Corsair Flash Voyager 512 MB USB 2.0 Flash drive, and two portable distributions: DSL and Feather Linux. However, it is mentioned that a 64MB flash drive can also be used as an alternative. What's great about this project is that you can turn that 64MB flash drive gathering dust somewhere in your stuff into something very useful.

I'm not sure if it is possible, but maybe a card reader/writer + memory card combo can also work.

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