You might as well dump your Outlook because Evolution can run on Windows…
Monthly Archive for June, 2006
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My last post was a little challenge: a ciphered message with an url inside. All you had to do was to convert the binary code, reverse the text and decode the string with the ROT-13 cipher. You would then get
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/16/cryptanalysis-of-phone-numbers-stations/ (as Bruno did very well).
Besides the little challenge, the point of that post was the link encoded. I’ve been following this story on Homeland Stupidity and it has been very interesting to read about the main theme on which the hole thing is reminiscent: Numbers Stations.
I’m not going to explain what a Number Station is, you can check the Wikipedia link above, I just would like to leave you with one of the most interesting projects I came across - The Conet Project.
The Conet Project gathers in 4 CDs a comprehensive collection of Numbers Stations recordings, which, by the way are spooky as hell. Although you can buy the CDs, the editor allows the download of the CDs in .mp3 as well as the booklet in .pdf.
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I recently changed my domain to this server. Everything went well except for the pain on the behind that was the DNS. After wating more than 72 hours for the TLDs to update (with no sucess), I had to change the DNS server where my domain was registred (again). Another problem I came across was with my ISP’s secondary DNS server. It had a different records than the primary name server, so once in a while I got no access to my mail accounts. Once I flushed the DNS cache everthing went fine, but minutes later I got the wrong ip adress AGAIN.
Now everything seems to be working fine, but I decided to catch up on some reading to refresh my knowledge on DNS. I found a very nice link collection on Linux Journal, check it out.
- The Open Source version of DNS
- OpenNIC: Democratic Name System DNS
- Tutorials, Tips and Tricks, HowTo and other Articles
- DNS Concepts
- DNS HOWTO
- DNS tricks and tips
- DNS for Rocket Scientists
- Internet Domain Name Structure
- Domain Name System
- Men & Mice - DNS Resources
- Setting Up Your New Domain Mini-HOWTO
- How to Use Domain-Based Blacklist Zones
- Bind and Dnsmasq
- freshmeat.net: Project details for Dnsmasq
- Configuring BIND with Webmin - RimuHosting
- BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual
- Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND)
- Free DNS hosting
- The Public DNS Service
- List of free DNS hosting sites
- Another list of free DNS hosting sites
- Setting up Dynamic DNS at Home
- How To Set Static and Dynamic DNS for Your ISP
- Free Dynamic and Static DNS
- Dynamic Network Services
- Online Tools for the Beginner to play with
- DNS, Network and other tools.
- Expired Domain Name Search
- E-Mail relay, DNS, Network and other tools
Please don’t let them screw it, please, please, please!
Nevertheless, Apple isn’t silent…
Update:
I asked myself this question every day “Why Google didn’t came up with Flickr?”
Today I got an invitation to Picasa Web Albums, a Flickr like site to use solo or with Picasa. The free account comes with 250MB of free storage space. For $25.00 per year, you can get a more 6GB of storage. Will it be better than Flickr? Flickr has a HUGE user base, lets see if Google can top Yahoo on this one.
Well, looks like the migration to the new server went well and the blog is up and running. Now it’s testing time, I’ll check for some errors, so please notify me if you see something unusual over here.
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