Category: SysAdmin
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Nmap 6.0 Security Scanner just released
I don’t know why I neglect to have this on a diphur watch; however, I am downloading and installing the nmap 6.00 client on my Windows 7 and my Fedora workstation while I write this. Excited about improvements. "The Nmap Project is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version…
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Anatomy of a Tweet
THE beauty of Twitter, the popular microblogging service, is that users have to keep it short: messages can only be 140 characters long. But companies that mine the stream of tweets for marketing and other purposes get much more information. Below is a map of a tweet including all its metadata. The map was published…
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WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”
Posted on WordPress.org, December 12, 2011 by Matt Mullenweg. Filed under Releases. The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version…
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A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy
Consider the Math in A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy from the EFF
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On The Bench: DNSMasq as a DNS Forwarder and DHCP Server
I have been pondering DNS resolution on small networks to solve problems that I am having with resolving name requests. I wanted something simple, lightweight, tested, opensource. I have dd-wrt and it uses DNSMasq and I find that will service my DHCPd needs, give me a dynamic naming interface, is well aware of the Windows…