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Five Things You Must Know About VoIP

Eugenia Loli 2006-07-04 Internet 11 Comments

Ready to bring VoIP into your business? Getting pressure to implement it but trying to avoid it? Here's InformationWeek's five-point take on the state of the technology. On a similar note, the open source SIP service Ekiga.net now counts over 29,000 members.

Submitted by falko 2006-07-02 Internet 9 Comments

"This tutorial will show you how to setup greylisting with Postgrey and Postfix on Debian. Greylisting will not replace spam filtering software like SpamAssassin but it will serve as a powerful first hurdle for spam thus reducing the amount of spam entering the system at all."

Build a Better SOA Client with AJAX and the Dojo Toolkit

Submitted by anonymous 2006-07-01 Internet 3 Comments

Learn how to use the Dojo toolkit to build enterprise SOA clients for Java Platform, Extended Edition applications, and the the JavaScript Object Notation–RPC to invoke server-side Java objects.

Submitted by Hakime 2006-06-29 Internet No Comments

"I would like to introduce a new addition to the WebKit open source tools - a JavaScript debugger. Drosera, named after the largest genera of bug eating plants, lets you attach and debug JavaScript for any WebKit application - not just Safari. One of the unique things about Drosera, like the Web Inspector, is that over 90% of it is written in HTML and JavaScript. This is a true testament of what you can do with web technologies today and the rapid development that WebKit allows."

US Senate Deals Blow to Net Neutrality

Thom Holwerda 2006-06-28 Internet 51 Comments

A US Senate panel narrowly rejected strict Net neutrality rules on Wednesday, dealing a grave setback to companies like eBay, Google and Amazon that had made enacting them a top political priority this year. By an 11-11 tie, the Senate Commerce Committee failed to approve a Democrat-backed amendment that would have ensured all Internet traffic is treated the same no matter what its source or destination might be. A majority was needed for the amendment to succeed.

Linux Terminal Servers for Any Business

Submitted by MarkRais 2006-06-28 Internet 2 Comments

"A Linux Terminal Server offers any business an elegant and cost-effective way to integrate the power of open source. In this article, I review some basics of network topology and offer suggestions about how to install a prototype server. I top it off with some tips for business-specific installations and configuration."

Submitted by falko 2006-06-28 Internet 8 Comments

"There are a couple of Linux howtos floating on the Internet that deal with this very subject. As a matter of fact, those guides are what inspired me to write this one. In the spirit of keeping it simple, let me recommend the Mandrake or as it's currently known Mandriva Linux distro. This guide has been written with this distro in mind."

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.