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Entries for March, 2009

Dreamlinux 3.5 Review - Desktop Emphasis

Introduction
I have been distro hopping a lot in recent times, ever since I got VMware, and dedicated about half my system resources to it. I was testing a lot of the less known Linuxes but never came across one that had no big problem.
Of course, Dreamlinux is not one of the myriad of unknowns. It’s [...]

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The Junk that is IE8

I have never been much of a fan of the Internet Explorer franchise. Why Microsoft is bent upon forcing IE through is beyond me - they should have simply given after IE6 was drubbed by Firefox 2.0 and onwards.
Nevertheless, we saw the miserable IE7 and now, we have IE8.
I was piqued by press hype, saying [...]

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Safari 4 vs Firefox 3.1 (aka 3.5) - Which will win?

First, the interesting part. As the web watching community knows, what was going to be Firefox 3.1 is now to be Firefox 3.5 as a better “representation of scope”. Of course, that is not what us users have to worry about.
What we have to worry about is that Firefox 3.5 and Apple’s Safari 4 are [...]

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Why Technology is Addictive…

Over the last ten days (in which, my readers may have noticed, there have been no posts), I have been busy as a beaver building a dam.
I have been building working on my university projects, using a Tor and Your-Freedom with OpenVPN to bypass my universities horribly fascist firewalled prock-sy, and testing out new versions [...]

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Packet Crafting - and how to to go about it

There are many reason one may want to to delve into packet building, i.e. the building of raw data packets to send into a network. Security testing, responsiveness checks, or even special communications, no matter what, you may need them.
Fortunately, there are a few free tools that may help. Each of the tools listed allow [...]

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