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On Morning Crossness and Coffee-to-go Queues

Thom Holwerda 2006-06-25 Internet 47 Comments

Slowly, I step out of the Intercity train to Amsterdam, en route to university; I'm tired, I need some coffee. I check my watch and realise my metro leaves in 3 minutes, so I need to hurry in order to and buy me a coffee-to-go, and make it on time to the metro platform. I pick up my pace to run, as Mike Skinner would say.

Tim Berners-Lee on Net Neutrality: ‘This Is Serious’

Thom Holwerda 2006-06-24 Internet 51 Comments

"The inventor of the WWW has a short, to-the-point post that explains exactly why supporting real, bona fide net neutrality is the Right Thing to Do. I absolutely encourage you to read the entire post, but really he sums up the whole argument for net neutrality in his opening sentence: 'When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission.' If you think about it in terms of start-ups having to ask the permission of AT&T to innovate, then the whole net neutrality issue becomes less complicated."

uIP Embedded tcp/ip Stack 1.0 Released

Submitted by Adam Dunkels 2006-06-12 Internet 7 Comments

The widely used uIP TCP/IP stack is a very small implementation of the TCP/IP protocols, designed for memory constrained networked embedded systems. Version 1.0 adds a number of features such as a new socket-like API, rudimentary IPv6 support, and a DHCP client, as well as fixes corner-case bugs in TCP that have been found through many years of real-world testing.

Discover Internet Protocol, Version 6

Submitted by anonymous 2006-06-10 Internet 18 Comments

"The next-generation protocol, Internet Protocol version 6, is the future of the Internet. Learn how IPv6 compares to Internet Protocol version 4, understand the version 6 address formats, discover the benefits of IPv6, and learn which IT products comply with this new standard."

House Rejects Net Neutrality Rules

Submitted by Dylan 2006-06-09 Internet 216 Comments

The US House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it. By a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others.

Review: 3D Web Browsers

Submitted by mikemuch 2006-06-09 Internet 15 Comments

"What ever happened to the virtual reality, 3D world of the web? Back in the late 90s, all the hype was about VRML - Virtual Reality Markup Language - which would turn the web into an immersive environment that you'd maneuver around to get to the information you wanted. We're here to tell you that the reports of the 3D web's death are greatly exaggerated. As evidence, we present three 3D browsers that will use that graphics card for something other than gaming: 3B, Browse3D, and SphereXPlorer."

Submitted by DigitalDame 2006-06-09 Internet 30 Comments

"1.7 gigabytes in 12 minutes. That's 1,700MB in under 15 minutes from the Internet to my PC. Glorious, spectacular, almost breathtaking speed, brought to me courtesy of Verizon FiOS. Yes, it's true, I finally got it installed and it's good. Devoted readers know the long road I took to get here, but for those new to me or to FiOS, here's a brief recap."

Netcraft: Microsoft Continues to Chip Away at Apache’s Lead

Submitted by Ricus 2006-06-07 Internet 81 Comments

Microsoft continues to gain share in the web server market, chipping away at Apache's commanding lead. The number of hostnames on Windows servers grew by 4.5 million, giving Microsoft 29.7% market share, a gain of 4.25% for the month. Apache had a decline of 429K hostnames, and loses 3.5% to 61.25%. Apache's lead over Microsoft, which stood at 48.2% in March, has been narrowed to 31.5%, a shift of 16.7% in just three months.

Submitted by falko 2006-06-01 Internet No Comments

"In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure mod_cband on an Apache2 web server. mod_cband is an Apache 2 module which provides bandwidth quota and throttling. It solves the problem of limiting users' and virtualhosts' bandwidth usage. The current version can set virtualhosts' and users' bandwidth quotas, maximal download speed, requests-per-second speed and the maximal number of simultanous IP connections."

Spam Filtering Techniques

Submitted by anonymous 2006-05-22 Internet 13 Comments

"The problem of unsolicited e-mail has been increasing for years, but help has arrived. In this article, David discusses and compares several broad approaches to the automatic elimination of unwanted e-mail while introducing and testing some popular tools that follow these approaches."

ICANN Chokes off .xxx Porn Registry

Thom Holwerda 2006-05-11 Internet 46 Comments

Plans for an area of the internet dedicated to pornography were killed last night in a vote by overseeing organisation ICANN. In a split 9-5 board decision, the organisation acted ruthlessly, against its own previous position, in order to put an end to an increasingly difficult and controversial issue - the approval of a .xxx top-level domain.

Server Monitoring with munin, monit

Submitted by Falko Timme 2006-05-07 Internet 5 Comments

"In this article I will describe how to monitor your server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix and takes the appropriate action such as a restart if it finds a service is not behaving as expected."

Submitted by Mitarai 2006-05-06 Internet 55 Comments

"There is a speed war on the web. Browsers compete on many fronts; security, standards support, features and speed. Most people are aware of which major browser fails on three of these, but one of them is still open for grabs. Speed." On Windows, Opera was the fastest browser, while on Linux Konqueror performed the best for viewing basic pages (however, as soon as images, scripts or frequent use of back/forward buttons is involded, Opera is faster). On MacOS X, Opera and Safari perform the best. Overall, Gecko-based browsers did fairly poorly.

Netcraft: Apache Now the Leader in SSL Servers

Submitted by liquidat 2006-04-27 Internet 3 Comments

Apache has overtaken Microsoft as the leading developer of secure web servers. Apache now runs on 44.0% of secure web sites, compared to 43.8% for Microsoft. As the original developers of the SSL protocol, Netscape started out with a lead in the SSL server market. But they were soon overtaken by Microsoft's Internet Information Server, which within a few years held a steady 40-50% of the SSL server market.

Submitted by Hakime 2006-04-22 Internet 34 Comments

"One area of Web design that is going to become more important in the coming years is high DPI. For those of us working on WebKit, this will also become an issue for WebKit applications and for Dashboard widgets." Why? "On a screen with 1920x1200 resolution the Web site is going to be tiny, taking up less than 50% of the screen's width and half the screen's height. In terms of absolute size, the text will be much smaller and harder to read."

Submitted by mlb2000 2006-04-12 Internet 16 Comments

The first-mover advantage is well chronicled, but it didn't help Netscape when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer. What drives technology adoption, and do browser upstarts such as Firefox stand a chance? A Q&A with professor Pai-Ling Yin of Harvard Business School. On a related note, a development version of Firefox now passes the Acid2 test.

MSN Messenger Most Used IM Client

Thom Holwerda 2006-04-11 Internet 33 Comments

Analytics firm comScore Networks announced Monday the results of its February measurement of instant messenger usage around the world, with Europe surpassing the United States in IM users for the first time. MSN Messenger was also ranked as the most used client, garnering 61 percent of the worldwide market. According to the survey, 82 million people in Europe use instant messaging software, amounting to 49 percent of the online population. In the United States only 69 million of people use IM, or 37 percent of the online population. Latin America had the highest IM penetration covering 64 percent of Web users.

Traditional DNS Howto

Submitted by Falko Timme 2006-04-09 Internet 3 Comments

"Linux system administrators should learn traditional DNS. Front-ends and quick templates to setup domain records have a place in managing sites. When confronted with DNS configurations already in existence, nothing can substitute for knowing and using the fundamentals. The vast majority of users on the Internet have no clue about DNS. They may have seen the term when they set up their ISP connection, but they do not realize its connection to their lives. Simply put, DNS servers allow you to use friendly names in your browser, email or other Internet applications to perform tasks which require IP addresses."

Setting up a High-Availability NFS Server

Submitted by Falko Timme 2006-03-26 Internet 6 Comments

"In this tutorial I will describe how to set up a highly available NFS server that can be used as storage solution for other high-availability services like, for example, a cluster of web servers that are being loadbalanced. If you have a web server cluster with two or more nodes that serve the same web site(s), than these nodes must access the same pool of data so that every node serves the same data, no matter if the loadbalancer directs the user to node 1 or node n. This can be achieved with an NFS share on an NFS server that all web server nodes (the NFS clients) can access."

Latest Samba Preview Launched

Submitted by ken 2006-03-23 Internet 3 Comments

"A second test version of the next generation of the open source file and print sharing software Samba has been released to the public, with numerous bugfixes and feature improvements included. The Samba suite is an implementation of Microsoft's SMB/CIFS protocol that allows other operating systems to emulate or interoperate with Windows for the purposes of sharing files or printing. The upgraded Samba software can be downloaded here."