After waiting for T-Com and Freenet, and then fighting a loose connector and crappy outlet, Nora has arrived in 2007 in style with an Internet connection.
Tag Archive for 'networking'
My new modem sits proudly atop its servants who must now deal with the 16000/1024 goodness he doth bringeth
Q: The Internet connection at school is currently as slow as?
A: Yes…as slow as the title of this post.
I’m downloading at a whopping 11.2 KB/s from a normally dependable server with over 30% packet loss. Shizzo.
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Dan Kaminsky is probably one of my favorite speakers in the whole Blackhat, Defcon, CCC scene. I had seen an earlier iteration of this talk at Defcon 12 so the updates aren’t groundbreaking but are, nonetheless, impressive.
Why can’t college be taught like this? A barrage of information comes, […]
This is very cool since I just ordered one a couple of days ago. The “Fonera” is a free WIFI AP that they send you so long as you share your internet connection as a hotspot. Perhaps with this I can finally b teh ultim8 h@x0r? P3rh@p5… Thank you German hacker guy!
dns + spellchecking + phishing protection = opendns.com
I’m still not sure how their advertising revenue amounts to anything considering few will make their website a regular visit on their Internet rounds.
update: Ok, so I think I know how they get some of their cash. I typed in a quick search in the firefox address […]
The Easter holidays have finally shone their glorious light upon this corner of the world! I’m free until next Tuesday and plan to spend every minute of my break doing what any burned-out student/worker would do…catching up on the work they didn’t get done during their proper work time. Crap…
All is not lost […]
From an article on Slashdot covering an aspect of the WMF Windows exploit:
“…the exploit is arranged in such a manner that it cannot be detected by most intrusion detection systems (the snort rule will peg the CPU on your router) nor filtered by packet-inspecting firewalls (it spans two or more ethernet frames).”
Why oh why would […]
The EDGE Annual Question: “What is your dangerous idea?” (link) via BoingBoing
What’s so bad about Microsoft? (link) via digg
List of sites to assist in transfering/hosting large files (link) via digg
Cory Doctorow Becomes a Full Time Writer (congrats!!) (link)
The EDGE question is a fascinating one. At 72,000+ words it’ll take me awhile to get through […]
