Sunday, August 9, 2015
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Deep Web, What it is, What it isn't
So many people just don't understand what the Deep Web really is and try to imagine it's this dark place where everything evil exists. Well, it is just that, but to find the evil you are looking for, you will spend COUNTLESS hours digging through .onion domains to find it. Even then, there is no guarantee the site you really want to find is available to find without someone telling you where it exists.
To browse the "dark web"/"deep web" you have to first install a browser to do so, the TOR Browser is the only current browser to do so, unless you are a hacking genius (for which you don't need a browser to do anything online). Finding domains to view are the next biggest task as they are not easily listed and those that are do not have a good validity.
Domains
On the "Deep Web" true domains only end in ".onion". If they don't, they are not true deep web domains. As I know you are indeed interested, a list of deep web domains listed on the normal web are on "The Hidden Wiki", none of the listed domains can be reached from a normal browser, again you need the TOR browser.
Sites on the Deep Web
Many people believe that the deep web is as easily accessible as the normal internet and they will be sadly mistaken. As domains are frequently abandoned and seized by authorities (yes deep web sites are seized on rare occasions) you will sift through so many domains to reach anything of interest that you will miss a real search engine.
While there are search engines for the deep web, they are NOTHING like Google or even Yahoo. You will find that the average search term found on the deep web point you towards the main site for 4chan, full4chan (I know' as if 4chan wasn't terrible enough to browse through.
Actual Content
So what might you find on the Deep Web? You'll find, shit you don't really want to find and you'll read about shit that barely exists. Hit YouTube and look for videos on the deep web and they will dramatize the experience and falsify experiences about it. In actuality, you will be bored with the Deep Web within a few hours.
The people really benefitting from the deep web are those dealing in child pornography (anything under the age of 18) and those engaged in illegal trade. Yes you can pay for a hitman on the .onion network and you can buy counterfeit money, passports and IDs but all trade online is done in Bitcoin.
Funny enough you can also take Bitcoins and increase them 100 fold by sending them to a .onion site to guarantee growth.
What humors me more than anything else is that there are people who actually believe that the TOR network is immune to takedowns. Try this domain http://pinkmethuylnenlz.onion/ as it was the old pinkmeth site, apparently a site of blackmail. What I find more sad is that blackmail seems to be a higher priority to the feds than child pornography.
If you aren't up on the lingo, what I learned from the deep web was that jailbait (who doesn't know this one) and hard candy are the keys to NOT VISIT. You have a good chance that these are watched by the authorities and that you really have NO reason to be alive if you want to view these.
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Windows Search is Slowing Your PC
For a gamer, especially one with a lower end computer, Windows Search can be a real curse as the indexer can be accessing the hard drive for files attempting to index while a game is running. A lot of games rely on the pagefile and having the hard drive being accessed between different programs can cause in-game lag or system instability.
Of course with top of the line computers, a setting like Windows Search isn't much of an issue but we feel running a service you don't really need, isn't worth running.
So what does the indexer really do? It creates a database of terms so when a search within windows is processed, Windows can access the internal database it has created before having to actually go through each file.
When you have this service disabled the search goes through each file looking for the term queried which does take longer without the index service running but with the infrequency of searches the average user makes, is it really that big of a deal? We don't think so.
To disable the Indexing service is easy, simply open up Microsoft Services, the easiest way is with the Windows Key + R and typing "services.msc" followed by the enter key. Once the Services windows is up, find "Microsoft Search" (has been called "Indexing Service" in earlier versions of Windows) and go into it's properties. Change the "Startup type:" to "Disabled" and stop the service.
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| Windows Key + R |
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| Microsoft Run Console |
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| Scroll down to "Windows Search" |
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| Change the "Startup type:" to "Disabled" and either click on Start or restart your system. |
Windows Multicore Boot Setting Myth
There's a common speed trick we used since Microsoft Windows XP and, while we no longer care to confirm if it actually worked in XP, it definitely does not work on Windows 7 and beyond. The setting is within "System Configuration" or "msconfig" and has to do with a boot option that is actually designed for testing purposes.
The claim is that setting this option with the maximum "logical" processors available will boot the operating system across all available cores and threads. While we do remember with this option unchecked in Windows XP, the Task Manager only showed one graph for the processor load while enabling this option showed a graph for each core/thread.
In Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10, it has been confirmed that when unchecked it will use all available cores/threads to boot Windows. To view all threads/cores in Windows 10, you need to launch the Resource Monitor which can be launched from within the Task Manager.
To bring it up, bring up the System Configuration windows, easiest method is with the run command pressing the Windows key + R, and type in "msconfig".
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| Windows Key + R brings up the Run Console below |
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| Microsoft Run Console |
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| Under the Boot tab click on Advanced |
I've included the method for using this but for most people you never need to use this as maxing it anything other than the max, the same as being unchecked, will make your system boot and run slower.
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