The organization I’m employed with had a large demand for a central knowledge base. Since I’m the young “Web Two Point Oh” generation, I took it upon myself to provide Mediawiki. All the young technicians are familiar with it, and it would just make an awesome knowledge base. I proceed with a business card install […]

Procrastination is a plague that effects almost everyone at one time or another. Whether you put off taking out the trash (I hope not), gift shopping for the holidays, or working on personal projects, there are ways to deal with and/or cure yourself of this plague. As much as I love web development, getting into […]

For those of you with a cable service provider, the first item on the tech’s script involves “power cycling” your cable modem. Even if you’ve power cycled your modem three times prior to calling, the technician will ask you to shutdown your computer (which serves no purpose), power off everything relavent to the network, wait […]

Author: |sid| (efnet) In late November, security reports indicated a new worm was spreading through our network, taking advantage of a vulnerability in Symantec’s anti-virus/computer security products. The vulnerability, which effected a variety of Symantec’s products, was discovered or made public in May, 2006. The weakness allowed an attacker to execute code remotely on fully patched […]

Google’s Webmaster Tools has awesome potential, and I’ve been pleased with the intermittent service, sort of. The site works when it wants to, or just when I’m not using it I guess. Here’s some of the problems I’ve ran into or noticed while using the service, which may eventually be required to use if you’d […]

To prevent an immature audience from experiencing such devilish things, software has been developed to block or disable these obscenities from being displayed. These programs limit a person’s ability to enjoy and search or browse the Internet. Attempting to write a school research paper can be difficult when using words such as: minor, 18, racism, […]

Just think about it - Google’s already developed an internet drive, online document editors, advertising campaign managers, calandars, online WYSIWYG editors, an instant messaging client, and so much more. The recent aquisition of millions, if not billions of IPv6 IP’s, the dark fiber they’ve been purchasing, and the official statement, “we’re not going to provide […]

First up, google search. Before you move to the next section, you may learn a few things so stay with me. Google allows you to use “special operators” that can narrow down or make search results more accurate. Google has a habit of excluding common words (where, are, and, or, 1, I, etc..). But what if […]

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How Large Servers are Owned via DDoS

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*/ Every time you dial up to your ISP, your box is assigned an IP address. An IP address is a number (eg. 199.44.2.1) that identifies you on the internet. Every online computer has its own unless it’s on a LAN (Local Area Network) in […]

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie were the two responsible for developing UNIX while working for Bell Laboratory’s. With the advancement of phone technology in the early 1970’s, AT&T needed an operating system that would provide stable services for thousands of users at a time. Ritchie used a modified version of the Basic Combined Programming Language […]