How To Set Up a Firewall on Centos 6

Centos comes with a powerful firewall called iptables, that gives you very granular control over access to your server. Iptables is basically a list of of rules that tells the system what connections to accept or reject, and can protect both incoming and outgoing connections on specific ports. Set up an Escape Route Before you do anything with iptables, make sure…

How much do you think my old computer is worth?

Question: How much do you think my computer is worth? The specs are:

384MB of RAM
1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 Processor
38GB HD
52x CD-R Drive
Floppy Drive
Updated BIOS

I’m selling it because it is aged, and I recently bought a 3.4GHz system that’s much faster.

Answer: That’s still not a bad system for young children to play games on or for just doing email and shopping online, but when you can buy a brand new system for only a few hundred bucks than I’d say your system is worth only about $100 (or less). One selling point that might give you an advantage is the software that’s already loaded on the system. If you have MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, or a few other expensive-but-popular programs than it can significantly add to the value of your system.

Sell it

iPod Sound Quality

Question: I’ve resisted buying an ipod so far because I am an audiophile and I hate the idea of compressed music, which I equate to poor sound quality! Can you transfer whole CDs directly into an ipod from a CD player without compression?