Archive for October, 2006

Is Wi-Fi’s 128-bit WEP secure?

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Wi-Fi, the technology which allows you to surf the net wirelessly without the cumbersome ethernet wire connection (or the modem connection), is a very convenient feature which many used everyday without much thought. However, as the signals are transmitted through-the-air, it is possible for anyone in the vicinity to eavesdrop into the connection. To prevent [...]

Blog updates

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

I updated my blog theme from the “Very Plain Text 2.0″ to the “Aquafluid 1.0″ theme on Oct 16, 2006. Hopefully everything looks fresher.
A Google search function was added for performing search on

Indextown (this site),
Morningstar’s forums (Vanguard Diehards forum),
Www (the entire web).

I also created two content pages :

Investing Resources – which is a library of [...]

Vanguard account fees

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Vanguard is known for its very low expense-ratio funds. However, since it is more costly to service accounts with low balances, Vanguard has chosen to impose some fees on accounts with low-balances.
The list of fees imposed by Vanguard is given HERE. The fees are generally $10 or $20 per fund. However, to many new investors, [...]