Successfully Blocking Ads (at OS level)
To share back with community. If you never knew how to properly block advertisements stuffed into your face, there is very efficient way to block most of ads served online. It is not really blocking, more of a circumvention: by using DNS and built-in features of our own operating system, we can re-direct ad requests [...]
Watson Wins Jeopardy
This Valentine’s Day shall be remembered by much more than for exchange of few kisses and heart-shaped bonbons. On February 14th 2011, a three-day contest between man and a man-made machine begun. Match of Jeopardy was fought for a prize of One Million Dollars, and for everlasting fame and glory. Complete Touring Machine won the [...]
IPv4 depletion, exhaustion, there is no more.
No more left. IANA has given away last /8 of IPv4 they ever had, today. Few more months till RIR’s exhaust their free address space. Than what? Dual stacked Internet; after this Internet will NOT be end-to-end routable for the long time, if ever. Two protocols, two shows, gets even more complicated – which means [...]
Social Spying Made Easy
The latest invention in the world of Social Spying comes as a addon for your favorite browser, Mozilla’s own Firefox. Addon home-brewed by Eric Butler enables you to sniff your immediate neighbors’ activity on Social Network websites, such as Flickr, Twitter, Panoramio, and of course infamous Facebook.
DIY: Mini Media Center – part 1
Not so long ago, I run into an old mobo of interesting features – it was mini-itx mobo used in a satellite receiver. Along with it I prepared a silent PSU [also ripped out of a receiver], old AGP video / radio capture card, slim HDD – sata 40gb I had laying around, an old [...]
Last Friday of July
Happy Sys Admin day! If there was no sysadmins, you would not be able to see this message. In fact, it is highly likely that you would not be able to see any messages at all. Today, or tomorrow, your electroshit would stop working. Once that happens, you usually get to talk to an semi-interested [...]
