Category: Net

Is Google a new bigbrother? Here are two interesting articles: Google, bigbrother de demain? Google as bigbrother

<quote> BlueArc’s Titan sustained a performance level of 12,500 SPECmail messages per minute, or the equivalent of two and a half million SPECmail users, sending 30 million e-mail messages per day. </quote> See article: BlueArc – Titan Storage System – Accelerating the Digital World

Today, I found a nice memo on http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/. A picture says more than words! 🙂

Walking on the UCL campus yesterday, I started Ministumbler on my iPAQ. In the main street, more than 10 networks were detected in the same time! And, of course, lot of them “open” for everybody. (Sorry for the bad picture quality)

I’m running a NewsCache on rootshell.be to give a local Usenet access to connected users. Today, I quickly checked the current cache: # du . | sort -r -n | head -20 3192620 . 2641484 ./alt 2402852 ./alt/binaries 1087276 ./alt/binaries/pictures 993612 ./alt/binaries/pictures/erotica 262508 ./alt/binaries/boneless 189492 ./alt/binaries/warez 133532 ./alt/binaries/x 112064 ./soc

A guy from Microsoft has made a cool drawing: Since 1997, he kept all spam/virus received and was able to draw some kind of history: http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/16/230388.aspx

Tonight, big network outage on my colo network… Approximatively one hour of downtime, not all traffic was routed thru alternative paths. Then suddenly, we were routed again but… Hostname %Loss Rcv Snt Last Best Avg Worst 1. 192.168.254.1 0% 1109 1109 1 1 2 67 2. 217.136.190.1 0% 1109 1109

Finally! I got mine! My Google mail account! Somebody had the good idea to invite me. Cool! First impressions: quite fast and complete (provides all features of a good webmail). Next step… Integrating this account in my Pine 🙂

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:21:43 -0100 (GMT) From: anakata To: KMWLAW@flash.net Subject: Re: Unauthorized Use of DreamWorks SKG Properties On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 KMWLAW@flash.net wrote: > Dennis L. Wilson, Esq. > KEATS McFARLAND & WILSON, LLP > 9720 Wilshire Blvd., Penthouse Suite > Beverly Hills, CA 90212 >

The Life of a Noob by Exile Being a noob on the internet, irc, forums, etc. can be a tough life. People saying you suck@life.net and always kicking you around like the scum you are. But I believe it is a conditioning we noobs must go through. It’s like a