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25th March Comments

Google, Yahoo Join in The Tangled (Open)Social Web

Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 4:56 pm

In a day of openness among the giants of the Web, Microsoft’s announcement is dwarfed by the joint venture between ardent rivals. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has joined forces with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and MySpace to announce the OpenSocial Foundation, a nonprofit venture to support the development of portable, interoperable applications under the OpenSocial standard. This [...]

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20th March Comments

Intel Wi-Fi Provides 6 Mbps Over 100 km

Posted on March 20th, 2008 at 6:27 am

MIT Technology Review describes a new Wi-Fi router from Intel capable of sending a Wi-Fi signal tens of miles with 6-Mbps performance. This is perfect for rural areas without Internet service, and for less developed countries interested in building out their Internet infrastructure but no means to lay expensive cable or fiber optics. The routers [...]

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11th March Comments

Firefox 3 Beta 4 is 5x faster than IE7 and 3x faster than Firefox2

Posted on March 11th, 2008 at 9:49 am

The almost-but-not-quite-final beta of Firefox 3 (FF3 beta 4) is now available for download. The most noticeable improvement is speed. In some tests, it’s three times faster than Firefox 2 (meaning the test completes in 1/3 the time), and a whopping five times faster than IE 7: Source: ZDNet Blogs

Posted in Linux, Networking, Software

5th February Comments

An Easy Tutorial on IP Tables and Port Knocking

Posted on February 5th, 2008 at 7:46 am

Do you wish you had access to your home file server without leaving your firewall wide open to attacks? Well today’s your lucky day! While you can implement this on any OS its easiest to do this on Linux. This article will show you how to lock down your firewall and implement a port knocker [...]

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31st January Comments

SWAT your Samba problems

Posted on January 31st, 2008 at 5:36 am

  If you need to share files or printers with Windows machines, you’re likely using Samba and know how to administer and configure it by editing configuration files and starting and stopping the daemon. However, there’s an easier, graphical way to configure your box: the Samba Web Administration Tool. Heck I tell folks to use [...]

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