Today, a customer requested some benchmarks regarding a new 100Mbits circuit which will be used in prodution on Saturday. How to quickly perform benchmarking with the minimum time and effort? The answer can be Iperf. Iperf is a network performance tool which can perform lot of tests and report bandwidth,
Happy Birthday Google!
Birthday++ for Google today!
wget.exe
Today, I had to mirror a big part of a website to a local disk. For such operation, my favorite tool is wget. Unfortunately in this case, I had no way to use a UNIX host. Not a problem, let’s ask Google if there exists some port to the Windows
Tadaaaaaa!
All of us ear them more then one time per day. (to our despair!)
My Shared Items
In a previous post, I spoke about the Google Reader feature which allows you to share RSS items with your contacts. Google proposes also some piece of code to add this list to your blog. With a simple WordPress widget, it can be easily integrated in a blog. Check the
Back to University
I’m back to the University for two months! I started a mission for a company located on the Louvain-La-Neuve campus. That’s a really great place to work! You’ve everything just a few meters from the office and, since the new academic year started, the student activities are also starting again.
Is a printer secure by default?
Today, at a customer premises, I had to print a document on a local printer. Out of the Windows domain, I decided to use a printer by connecting directly to its IP address. nmap is your best frien in such case. Here is the scan result against the printer: H:\>nmap
~0.1 se/s in UK
According to this document, more than three millions computer crimes where performed in 2006 in UK! 3000000 / (3600*24*365) = 0.095 One security event every ten seconds!