Category: Net

An interessant article available at RIPE about the SQL worm impact on the global Internet performance. Remember, it was on 25th January… RIPE-NCC/Test Traffic Measurements

Bored to click on tons of URLs found by Google ? Take a seat, popcorn, big coke and try the Google Viewer…

Who said that it’s not possible to combine family and computers? Yeah, geeks can have a social life! Here is an example of family war driving 🙂

Walking the city with your notebook or PDA equiped with a Wifi network card, you found an open network… Ok, but how notify the other war drivers of this resource? By drawing specific symbols nearby the wireless access! It’s called Warchalking! Warchalking / Collaboratively creating a hobo-language for free wireless

How I.T. environment grows year per year in a major Belgian university starting from 1994! UCL/SRI – Rapports d’activite

Today a new worm began to spread over the Internet. It affects not only Micro$oft SQL servers but also the globel Internet performance! Just have a look at the follow grapth (Gigabit Ethernet link on core2.pao1.above.net in PAIX). The CERT has already sent an advisory regarding this issue.

Google released some statistics regarding the year 2002. It’s very interesting to see how terms or topics searched are directly related to worldwide events such new music albums, movies or major events in our daily life. Google Press Center: 2002 Year-End Zeitgeist

Who said that geeks are only intreseted in computers? They also have their own annual contest to choose the “Sexiest Geek Alive”! Sexiest Geek Alive – Home

Here is a wireless access point based on a Soekris Engineering embedded PC mother board and OpenBSD.

TF1, the biggest French television channel has started a new service: DreamTV, television based on ADSL technology! They started a beta-test of this service with ~200 homes near Paris.