DNS stands for Domain Name Servers, RIPE stands for Registrar of the IP address space in Europe (title is in French, thus abbreviation does not fit the name). Whenever you ask your computer to present you with webpage, once you enter the address (www.example.com) your computer contacts DNS server delegated to it, and sends it a DNS query (asking literally – what IP is behind the www.example.com). Read the rest of this entry »
Posts Tagged ‘WWW’
August 23rd, 2010
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August 20th, 2010
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Me likes it :)
I got my desktop running at IPv6, AND, I got this webserver listening both IPv4 and IPv6. Also, there is a IPv6-only domain here, available in the future at http://ipv6.playopenminded.com. Stand by, we will have an Easter Egg hidden there, just for you! Read the rest of this entry »
August 13th, 2010
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I know weird, I met weird, heck I spent more time with weird peoplez than with regular. I can tell weird. And this, definitely, is some weeeeiiiird shait.
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August 13th, 2010
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It seems taht intl police task-forces managed to arrest the head of the largest botnet ever, Mariposa botnet. It has been said that this botnet has connected anything between 8 and 12 billion zombie-computers; extracted complete information usable for identity theft – information on about 800.000 individuals, including social security numbers, dates of birth, and other information used by imposters to create fake identities, credit cards, etc. It seems that this botnet united admins from more than 190 countries and infected high-profile computers, such as those in big ass firms – it is also believed that this botnet has had some control over desktops in more than 40 fortune100 companies. Read the rest of this entry »
August 2nd, 2010
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Eh, in my career, I never thought I would learn so much about fonts. Double-byte, italic, Unicode sets, proportions, serifs, TTF, and more. I have read endless discussions on GNU Linux font representation, metrics, proportional fonts and their CHARacteristics (pun intended).
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July 19th, 2010
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Hello all. To return to the community, once at least, I will be writing a series of articles called Troubleshooting Internetz Connection. It will be aimed at noobs and their problems. Supposed to enable you to troubleshoot your shit without bugging all the great internautz like me.
Generic End-User to Internetz Relationship
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