Category: Net

The Opte project is a project to make a visual representation of the current Internet. It seems successfull 🙂

Unix was, and still is, a way of life Keeping and mainainig things clean A philosophy about small things that together make one big system The beauty of spartan simplicity The first widely used multitasking and multiuser system. The bricks that built internet The spirit of sharing, of reusing The

Do you know how it works? From computers to health, you can find the answer here: http://www.howstuffworks.com/ Sure!

I found this today… Search for specific BSD topics… http://www.google.com/bsd

… then buy a Mac! 🙂 <quote> On Friday, the Recording Industry Association of America withdrew its lawsuit against Sarah Seabury Ward of Newbury, Massachusetts, after the 66-year-old grandmother said she had never used or even downloaded any peer-to-peer file-sharing software. Bolstering her claim is the fact that Ward and

A few years ago, I wrote a small application called URLWatch. The name speaks itself: You can manage a set of URLs and be notified once they are updated. I just ported the application to PHP/MySQL fixed a few bugs and added new features… The tool is available here.

Since Kazaa distribute a paying release of their well known P2P application, they seems to be frustrated by the success of some free competitors 🙂 http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=789

Sometimes to register on web sites you need to give an email address to receive your password. Problem: Very often, those addresses are mainly used by spammers or to send advertisements… Here is the solution: a temporary email address! Valid from 24 hours to max 8 days! Disposable email, for

This question is often asked by newbies or customers… Since Monday 15th September, there exists an “Internet server”! 🙂 All requests to an unknown, expired or misspelled domains will be redirected to a box called sitefinder.verisign.com (64.94.110.11). Nice place to run a honeyport btw… See http://www.haque.net/verisign_dns_rant.php

No, definitively, I can’t believe that China joins global fight against spam! Finally, can we expect mailboxes free of spam coming from .cn server??? http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/10/HNchinaspam_1.html