I’ve just upgraded my MacBook Pro to Leopard. I expected it to be very smooth and painless as many other users have reported, but unfortunately I encountered some problem. I had to spend around extra 4 hours, and was worried…
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Mahabir Pun — the man who brought WiFi to Himalayas
When I read Mahabir Pun’s story about how he brought the wireless technology to a remote mountainous village of Nepal called Nangi, I was amazed by his determination! What an inspirational story of a man with a noble cause. It…
Monitor network traffic with ntop
How do you monitor your network traffic? Of course using MRTG, you might say. Yes, that’s true, MRTG does an excellent job of monitoring traffic across networks and devices (router/switches). But when you see an abnormal traffic in MRTG, how…
Online Password Managers
After switching to a mac, I tried many desktop password managers, and had written about Password Managers for OS X, which got a lot of attention. It’s needless to mention the importance of using a password manager since we use…
Simulating Cisco and Linux Networks
The benefits of designing and testing complex networks in simulated environments are obvious to network professionals and companies. It lets them test the network configurations before implementing it in the real world, and the good thing is that, they can…
4 simple measures to keep your system and network secure
There are many things you can and should do to keep your system and network secure. As the saying goes — “Security is not a single event or a product, it’s a process”. So, you’ve to keep up with all…
Snort: Intrusion Detection/Prevention Management
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…
Everything Apple…
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…
Download Free DivX Pro for Mac (just for today)
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…
ZFS To Become Default File System In Leopard
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…
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