Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

Crisis alert! I had some problems today with my main internet provider that made the servers go down and only now I had the time to reconfigurate the DNS server to point to the backup connection (I know, I have to be more prepared next time!) Anyway, sorry... PS: The website will probably run a bit slower until the main connection comes back up, which I hope ... Full story

Twitter is a simple message-based system which is easy to use, practical, API-friendly, free and most of all: it asks the simplest of questions: What are you doing? - So, why do people hate it so much? I talked to some people about this service and the answers were basically these: I never heard about ... Full story

This tuesday Gmail was down for a couple of hours in the morning, and Google quickly explained what happened on their blog, from which I quote: (...) This morning, there was a routine maintenance event in one of our European data centers. (...) Unexpected side effects of some new code that ... Full story

I haven't had much time to post anything, and I must apologize for that... but one of the tools I use (mainly for work) every single day is Skype. Almost every conversation I have (on work-related subjects) is through Skype or Exchange (Microsoft Outlook). A few minutes ago I found out that Skype 4.0 just left it's cuddly beta stage and was officially announced! I took ... Full story

In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Wikipedia So yesterday a friend of mine sent me this online test made in HTML/JavaScript about ... Full story

If you don't know the answer to this question, you probably never actually accessed your router's admin website, which isn't necessarily bad, unless you have a wireless router and no one actually set it up in the first place. This means your router doesn't have a password and anyone can access your network! Well, I'm writing this because I stumbled ... Full story