Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
In most context's, if someone says the government is robbing you they are talking about taxes. We hear politicians claiming that they will lower taxes. This article is not about taxes. Taxes are out in the open, and everyone knows exactly how much money is being taken from them. There ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Since the beginning of the industrial age, man has created most of his mechanical energy from combustion of some sort. Steam engines were powered by burning coal to heat water, some simple factory engines were even wood powered. Even before the Industrial Evolution, man used the combustion of wood and ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Any experienced admin will tell you that it is very easy to figure out which lines in an http log are hack attempts and which are not. If you don't know, you're about to find out. It is actually normal to find very large amounts of malicious traffic in your ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Introduction
There are several fictional works that have been produced entertaining the idea that we may live in a simulated universe. While it is obvious that these are works of fiction, modern physicists have actually taken similar ideas very seriously. I don't think that anyone has ever written a doctoral thesis ...
Posted in Physics, Programming | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
There is no guaranteed way to secure your blog, there will always be a way in, but there are ways to make sure that you're not vulnerable to any widespread problems. Here are some tips to keep your blog under your control.
1. Minimize Total Code
This is very similar to the ...
Posted in How-To, Security, Technology | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
This article is for people who have just began to use Linux, it is not for Linux experts. If you know quite a bit about Linux, you will not find this article useful. It does not fully cover the use of these commands, but gives basic examples. These commands are ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Now that you have your ubuntu router set up, what can you do with it? There are a few interesting things you will notice if you look at your events list long enough. You might notice a large number of incoming requests for a specific port. Let's use one that ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
There are lots of benefits to setting up an old computer as a router, rather than using that tiny linksys. If you want full kernel control over packets, you're not going to get it from an out of the box router (at least not a $50 one on newegg).
Hardware
Let's start ...
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