Archive for June, 2008

Copyright Regime versus Civil Liberties

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

MacVim

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Every proper geek is faithful to his text editor, thus the great battles between vi and Emacs users. Working with UNIX servers taught me how to use VIM. I came across MacVim project, Cocoa front-end to the powerful VIM editor that integrates with the OS X desktop. I can now use the same editor, and [...]

Juniper Links

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Juniper Networks was started in 1996 with the goal of taking over the high-performance networking world. Ten years later Juniper Networks sidestepped all the competition and took the number two spot right behind Cisco. They hold 21.8% of service provider, 29% of high-end enterprise routing, and 38.2% of core and edge routing markets!
While looking to [...]

Juniper Links

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Juniper Networks was started in 1996 with the goal of taking over the high-performance networking world. Ten years later Juniper Networks sidestepped all the competition and took the number two spot right behind Cisco. They hold 21.8% of service provider, 29% of high-end enterprise routing, and 38.2% of core and edge routing markets!
While looking [...]

Worst Network Security Book Ever

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Last night I have been going through my books researching various distributed denial of service mitigation strategies. While browsing the index of Guide to Firewalls and Network Security: Intrusion Detection and VPNs by Greg Holden the following grabbed my attention

I have purchased this book for my Network Security class from last semester. There is no [...]

New Network

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Couple of weeks ago I called my Internet Service Provider to discuss various packages that would allow me to host my own servers. After reviewing the offered packages I have decided to upgrade from a residential to a business line. Business packages come with five static IP addresses, 30 Mbps downstream, 5 Mbps upstream, and [...]