Archive for June, 2007

Snort has always been, and still is my favorite IDS (Intrusion Detection System) although I manage many UTM (Unified Threat Management) Firewalls with built in IPS/IDS (Intrusion Detection/Prevention) now. The commercial UTM Firewalls with IPS/IDS are easy to use and configure but they come with a high price tag and aren’t easy to customize. Even [...]

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Mac OSX Leopard – The latest and greatest Mac OS X, major features unveiled. New Desktop, Finder, Time Machine, Spaces, Quick Look and many more…
Safari for Windows – The sleek and fast apple browser comes to Windows world. I’ve installed it in my windows machine and surfed for a while. The first impression is that, [...]

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Go and download a free DivX Pro for Mac by giving your email address. The license will be sent to your email address. No word on why they’re giving it for free, but who cares. It’s a good chance to get an excellent video player worth 20 bucks for free. I’ve already downloaded and installed [...]

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Macrumors noted, Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz announcing that Apple would be making ZFS the default filesystem in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. That’s a great news. So, welcome pooled storage and bye-bye volumes!
ZFS stands for Zettabyte File System and was developed by Sun, it offers many advanced features and can handle much more space than [...]

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I love Firefox for the huge amount of extensions it offers. Lifehack has suggestion for bloggers — 17 Firefox Extensions That Make Blogging Easy.
Do you want to protect your pictures online? The short answer is: you cannot do it, but you can create technical roadblocks and aesthetic roadblocks. Of Zen and Computing has a nice [...]

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Many smart people have figured out the importance of domain name quite early, and are now multi-millionaires. They came up with many different (smart and weird) business models with the domain name. Check this fascinating story about The man who owns the Internet. Ok that was for business, but how about the domain name for [...]

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