Ranting to /dev/null

Better than a firewall

..which I've already got in my router, is PeerGuardian, an IP banning tool. It's got a range of IP addresses - mostly known media industry, advertising, and law enforcement addresses - and bans them. This means fewer banner ads, fewer popups, with no P2P interference (tried it) and a much lower profile. Kind of hard for the RIAA to detect you sharing files if they can't connect to your computer at all. Takes up almost no clock cycles or RAM too, which is good. And it's got a decent log function, which means you can enjoy watching MSN ad servers get blocked 90 times in 11 seconds.

If this doesn't make me a geek, I don't know what does.

Josiah, you should consider installing something like this for chattablogs.