JaJ_D - Slashdot User

WikiLeaks site in temporary shutdown 0

Submitted by JaJ_D on Monday February 01 2010, @09:25AM

JaJ_D writes "According to the BBC the WikiLeaks site has been temporary shutdown owing to financial problems.

Apparently "Its running costs including staff payments are $600,000 (£377,000), but so far this year it has raised just $130,000 (£81,000)."

I wonder who will be glad about this and who will be sad?"

Home network configuration for a small business 0

Submitted by JaJ_D on Thursday July 03 2008, @11:55AM

JaJ_D writes "I am involved in a small business (two people) and we need to have a test environment that we can both use, log into, have a mail server, have a webserver etc..

Now the system will be Linux based (4-8 machines) going through (finally) a wireless router.

As part of the system (and the fact that I have been hacked by someone once before) I want to change the system so all comminications go via a proxy server (rather than the wireless router) and this is recorded and monitored (ie all traffic through the router [internet, IM, YM, keylogger traffic etc..] will be recorded and logged). As a sight downer my primary laptop (due to client restraints) has to be Windows based. I am the only user, and my business partner is aware that the system will be fully monitored and recorded (so people don't hack and accuire our software).

So the questions I have are:

a) What would be the ideal setup for the proxy server?
b) Are there any GPL tools out there that can be used to setup, configure, record, monitor and play back (pref on a machine, by machine basis on the logs) the recording of all the traffic in and out of the proxy?
c) How easy is it to configure WindowsVista to go through proxys?
d) How easy is it to set up a mail server in this system?
e) Any advice/help/comments that people have

Many thanks

Jaj"

Terry Pratchett has early onset Alzheimer's 0

Submitted by JaJ_D on Wednesday December 12 2007, @08:28AM

JaJ_D writes "According to Paul Kidby's website, Terry Pratchet has been diagonsed with early onset Alzheimer's.

From the site:

would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, which lay behind this year's phantom "stroke".

Jaj"

Largest off shore wind farm to be built in UK

Submitted by JaJ_D on Thursday May 17 2007, @03:28AM

JaJ_D writes "Following the recent coverage on slashdot on the subject of global warming (and other issues like renuable energy), there are plans to build the worlds largest off shore Wind Farm off the coast of North Devon .

Currently the worlds largest off shore wind farm (London Array, which should generate enough energy to power a quarter of the homes in Greater London) is being constructed and the company who was initial involved in the London Array (Farm Energy) is also involved in this project.

According to the report "....it could be powering more than 1,000,000 homes by 2018", which would be enough to power all the homes in Devon (as well as some in Cornwall)."

ZX Spectrum is 25 years old today.

Submitted by JaJ_D on Monday April 23 2007, @06:45AM

JaJ_D writes "The BBC has got a nice little piece of history.

25 years ago today the ZX Spectrum was released (in the UK), and for £125 (250 USD at todays excahnge rate) you could get a 16 kB of RAM or with 48 kB for £175 (350 USD)

This was my first introduction to computing, and I still have my 16k (almost mint) and my 48k (not so mint) at home in the loft, and I can still remember the first program I wrote!

Looking back it is amazing the performance improvement of computing, in fact the standard size of an empty Word XP document couldn't be loaded into the memory of this little thing.

In the UK at least, this computer, more than anything else kicked off the whole home computing market, and triggered the first geeks sat at home in their bedrooms writing some fantastic code on this little thing.

Jaj"

Another MS Security Hole

Submitted by JaJ_D on Friday March 30 2007, @08:16AM

JaJ_D writes "According to the the BBC there is now a security hole with the use of different cursers (see the Microsoft Security Advisory)

According to the report "Microsoft is investigating new public reports of attacks exploiting a vulnerability in the way Microsoft Windows handles animated cursor (.ani) files. In order for this attack to be carried out, a user must either visit a Web site that contains a Web page that is used to exploit the vulnerability or view a specially crafted e-mail message or email attachment sent to them by an attacker."

It appears to affect all OS from Windows 2k upwards, although the wesite hole is protected in Windows Vista/IE 7 combo."

Java 1.6 has been release

Submitted by JaJ_D on Tuesday December 12 2006, @09:25AM

JaJ_D writes "Sun has announced the release of Java 1.6

Available now for downloading

Jaj"

Happy Birthday man

Submitted by JaJ_D on Friday November 03 2006, @05:16AM

JaJ_D writes "How many times has a Unix user been stuck and typed in the now famous man to get all the details they need? (ok not as often as they should, granted)

Well today marks the 35th anniversary of the first UNIX "man" pages

The original versions are on the Bell-Labs site and the ironic thing is that they are now in pdf form and somewhat bigger than the originals!

Jaj"