I’ve been experimenting with various operating systems on my Thinkpad and have been trying to get a Unix-like system on there. I’ve played with Ubuntu but the battery life is abysmal. I can get around 3 hours with Windows XP installed and barely half that with Ubuntu 8.10 installed.
Just for grins, I decided to see [...]
Two cool articles up on Linuxjournal.com regarding IPTables, the built-in firewall for Linux. I’ve struggled to learn how IPTables works (especially after using the excellent OpenBSD pf firewall) but these videos really explain IPTables well:
Part 1
Part 2
I would encourage you to watch both videos if you use Linux, especially if your system is exposed to [...]
Finally, after 6 long months of studying for this thing! It was tough and I thought that I had bombed it halfway through. I’ll keep it short: know all the objectives and you’ll pass.
Next up is the CCDP ARCH exam. I’ve passed the CCNP routing and switching exams which are prerequisites for the CCDP so [...]
Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of time left until the election to actually educate people on Barack Hussein Obama’s background and dangerous associates. For some odd reason, the lamestream media has ensured that you the voter will not be allowed to know who this dangerous man is. But here’s a few videos you might like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_N1rqVo2W0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89m0pC_bpY
This [...]
Since subprime mortgage loans will probably mostly go away, it can’t hurt to learn how they work. Here’s a really funny slideshow that does just that:
https://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fn&skipauth=true&pli=1
This is interesting (and not surprisingly, not even reported in the mainstream media). Apparently, ol’ Barry Obama is taking any and all contributions, even from other countries. This is illegal according to our Federal Election laws. He apparently has a lot of contributers in Gaza and Palestein. Check out the article here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html
In sharp contrast, John [...]
I’m actually very surprised this hasn’t been picked up on any of the major tech sites. Here’s the first sentence from the article:
“The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software patents, including pioneering patent claims to such innovators [...]
With all the recent hubub about ISP traffic management, I figured I’d start an article series on QOS: what it is, how it works, and where it is implemented in a network. After all, my day job is networking so I may as well share some knowledge.
Since the Internet first went commericial in the mid-90s, [...]
So over the past few days, I’ve moved my websites to new hardware. I got a used Sun Enterprise 420r and decided it was time. Pretty nice box: 4 UltraSPARC II processors at 450Mhz each, 1 Gig of RAM, and 72 GB of drive space. Of course it’s running my favorite server operating system - [...]
I love the Firefox web browser. Even more than Opera. However, Firefox tends to be a memory hog. The reason for this is that once you load a web page and begin viewing it, Firefox begins prefetching the pages that are linked to the page you’re viewing. I can only [...]
