Is bestbuy really the bestbuy?

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

There’s an interesting writeup about bestbuy that essentially says they have 2 web sites, one is the public facing website, the other is an internal web site. No big surprise there I suppose, internet/intranet… the catch is    Send article as PDF   

Handy DNS tools online

Monday, January 29th, 2007

There are some tools that I make use of almost daily. Either because something strikes my curiousity or because of necessity to find out a bit more about a computer issue. DNS lookup tools fall into the category of “must have” for the kind of stuff I wind up doing. Whether it’s a whois lookup […]

Offline web browsing script

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

In the US and Europe and many more developed parts of the world we take our internet connectivity these days for granted. (And some go into panic attacks when it’s not available…) In some parts of the world though internet connections are not as wide/broad and peak usage times can make for very slow viewing, […]

By the way, the US commerce dept. computers are under attack….

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Shouldn’tthis and this get more news coverage? US Commerce Department computers (specifically a bureau responsible for export licenses) is under cyber attack from hackers based in China. The Bureau in question is the Bureau of Industry and Security…. which handles “U.S. exports which have both commercial and military applications”…. They’ve been targetted by various rootkits […]

That’s it for the evening I got to the end of the Internet

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Sorry, I’ll have to wrap up for the evening. I got to the end of the internet.    Send article as PDF   

Google puts historical articles online, searchable

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Wow, this is nice – and frankly, something I could probably spend hours with. Search Engine Watch tells us that Google will debut a searchable news archive that takes us back through around 200 years worth of news stories. Yes, folks, google is putting the last 200 years of history online. I remember the newsgroups […]

The stratellite revisited

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

NO, I didn’t mean to type satellite. Stratellite. This is an idea that I’ve written on before and I think it has some interesting possibilities. The idea is to positition a large airship (helium balloon of sorts) in the stratosphere. Put it above the steering currents of the jet stream and equip it with the […]

Lot’s of things to catch up on/round up today.

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

I’ve got a slew of articles open that I’ve been holding to post about. I’ve also got a few other things to post, so this may be a busy posting afternoon. There’s quite a bit going on here, but things are RELATIVELY quiet out on the internet it looks like. A flurry of typing going […]

Fun way to mess with wireless freeloaders….

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Some people spend a lot of time finding ways to block the freeloaders from their wireless internet. Others find fun ways to mess with them…. They start off by settup up dhcpd.conf to carve out two subnets a “good” one with known mac addresses and an untrusted…. then the fun begins with some proxy side […]

Anonymized Botnet?

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Sans has a story on botnet traffic spotted coming from the TOR network. Now, I had to refresh my memory on what TOR is, but it’s an anonymizing network, essentially a computer running TOR, would collect a list of TOR client machines on the internet and then connections to other pcs are routed through encrypted […]

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