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Sep
5
Firefox Performance Guides
September 5, 2007 | 13 Comments
Chances are you’re either using Firefox or IE to view this website but if you’re regularly visiting this blog, you’re most likely using Firefox. This site is IE friendly as well but many of our readers are Linux users and by default on Linux, Mozilla FF browser is installed just like IE on Windows.
Since we […]
Aug
22
Google Earth Advances
August 22, 2007 | 4 Comments
Google has launched Sky for Google Earth, a new feature that shows images of stars to Google Earth application. Users can zoom and do all kinds of crap that they would normally with current Google Earth.
There is expected to be over one million images from various locations. As indicated on their website, “Google […]
May
7
Apache Performance and Security Guide
May 7, 2007 | 2 Comments
Apache being the most popular Web server on the Internet is a big target for DOS and Hack attacks. Being customizable using the many hundreds of modules available we can optimize and lock it down to withstand high traffic loads.
In our tutorial, we will be using the following two modules
- mod_dosevasive 1.10 from http://www.nuclearelephant.com
- mod_security 1.8.7 […]
Apr
23
DRM Rippers
April 23, 2007 | 3 Comments
DRM is an acronym for Digital Rights Management, a broad term used to describe a number of techniques for restricting the free use and transfer of digital content. DRM is used in a number of media, but is most commonly found in video and music files. There are many who argue that DRM is a […]
Apr
17
Going beyond detecting intrusions and blocking services based on IPs and Ports we have NIPS. Network Intrusion Protection Systems (NIPS) actively protects based on signature matches. Unlike firewalls, it inspects traffic at a deeper level and is able to control the traffic by blocking it in a variety of ways including sending Resets. Additionally, most […]
Apr
8
14 Steps to Secure Your Wireless Network
April 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Many have installed wireless network in their homes. The freedom from tangled cables is sweet but comes with a price. A wireless network can broadcast far outside your building. With a powerful antenna and some widely available hacking software, anyone sitting near your installation—or even driving by—can passively scan all the data flowing […]
Apr
5
Boost website performance in 15 seconds!
April 5, 2007 | 7 Comments
Most websites has some dynamic pages that make a backend call to a database server such as mysql to retrieve and display data to user’s browser. In my case, I have a website that displays top 20 most voted names on front page of my website. So every time a user visits my website, index.php […]
Mar
25
Tools and Services we may never use again
March 25, 2007 | 1 Comment
Can you think of other tools or services that are vanishing quickly?
Archie: Archie was used to search for information stored on FTP servers and is now no longer in operation; this Web page is for historical interest only
Gopher: The Internet Gopher Protocol; a distributed document
search and retrieval protocol; describes this protocol used for
presenting Internet […]
Mar
18
Affordable Linux-based NAS Server Solutions
March 18, 2007 | 2 Comments
NAS is a dedicated hard disk-based storage devices. A NAS device provides users with additional disk storage available to LAN users through a standard network connection. You mount NAS via NFS on your Unix based systems or via CIFS/SMB on your Windows systems. It can be used to store all your data […]
Mar
5
The Crazys at GoDaddy and Registerfly
March 5, 2007 | 4 Comments
According to this post, Registerfly is going bonkers. Apparently, it’s CEO Kevin Medina spent company funds on liposuction surgery and escort services. As this is going on, customers are getting caught in the middle with at least 75,000 thousand domains expired.
Meanwhile, in Godaddy land, the complaints are building as noted here. Most recently as noted here, […]