Author: eric


Posted on: 2nd September 2008

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Category: Linux, Networking

This program automatically looks at what Wi-Fi card you have, it disables any wireless driver currently installed, fetches the correct Windows driver from the Internet and installs it with NDISwrapper.
Link: Launchpad

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Author: eric


Posted on: 31st July 2008

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Category: Networking, Security

Recently, a significant threat to DNS, the system that translates names you can remember (such as www.doxpara.com) to numbers the Internet can route (66.240.226.139) was discovered, that would allow malicious people to impersonate almost any website on the Internet. Software companies across the industry have quietly collaborated to simultaneously release fixes for all affected name [...]

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Author: eric


Posted on: 25th July 2008

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Category: Design, Education, Linux, Microsoft, Networking, Programming, Security

Rodrick Brown has put together a list of O’Reilly’s CD bookshelf online. Here you’ll find books like Java, Perl Networking, Unix, Web Design, Web Development, Oracle, Linux, XML, Cisco, Active Directory, LDAP, PHP, MySQL and many more. Each title contains the entire book online.
Link: Rodrick Brown

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Author: eric


Posted on: 25th June 2008

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Category: Networking

Hundreds of larger and smaller ISPs all over the world try to limit BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions, with Comcast as the prime example. Thanks to the Glasnost project, you can now test wheter your ISP is one of the bad guys.
Link: TorrentFreak

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