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Comment IPCop or Smoothwall With Squidguard (Score 1) 338

by TheItalianGuy on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @11:19AM (#40076801) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Monitor Traffic?

http://www.ipcop.org/ Bootable Linux ISO installed on some dinosaur PC hardware. 2 NICs, Inside & Outside. Put behind the Linksys/Netgear/router. Install the Squidguard add on. Transparent Proxy that watches ALL HTTP (TCP port 80) traffic and HTTPS (TCP 443) URL's. transparent for all outbound recording. Designed network bottleneck for all outbound Internet traffic. Configure DHCP client on the outside, and DHCP server to the inside. So all clients receive DHCP services from IPCop. All free.

Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @01:32PM from the a-jetwing-and-a-prayer dept.

Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."

Google To Send Detailed Info About Hacked Web Sites 58

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @12:28AM from the see-yourself-as-others-see-you dept.

alphadogg writes "In an effort to promote the 'general health of the Web,' Google will send Webmasters snippets of malicious code in the hopes of getting infected Web sites cleaned up faster. The new information will appear as part of Google's Webmaster Tools, a suite of tools that provide data about a Web site, such as site visits. 'We understand the frustration of Webmasters whose sites have been compromised without their knowledge and who discover that their site has been flagged,' wrote Lucas Ballard on Google's online security blog. To Webmasters who are registered with Google, the company will send them an email notifying them of suspicious content along with a list of the affected pages. They'll also be able to see part of the malicious code." Another of the new Webmaster Tools is Fetch as Googlebot, which shows you a page as Google's crawler sees it. This should allow Webmasters to see malicious code that bad guys have hidden on their sites via "cloaking," among other benefits.

Google Health Open Platform Is Great — Or Awful 179

Posted by timothy on Friday June 06, 2008 @11:25AM from the now-that's-a-dialectic dept.

JackPowers writes "The Google Health APIs enable portable, standardized, open architecture, extensible personal health records, which is nice but boring if they're just used to manage the paperwork of the doctor/patient relationship. But once the data is set free, all kinds of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 apps are possible. This article looks ahead 10 years at Best Case Scenarios. A follow-up article lists the Worst Case Scenarios."

Comment Re:Remove the hard drive from it (Score 1) 1018

by TheItalianGuy on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @10:00AM (#20571715) Attached to: Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux

This is the correct course of action. Repairs to Dell laptops will typically ask that you remove HD's, CD ROM's, Floppy's for shipping back and fourth for these types of repairs as they don't want those damaged at all in the process. This is a physical repair which and many folks have already beaten to death and pointed out has nothing to do with the OS on it. (Though the first couple comments on Linux possibly causing the cracking were humorous). Good luck, and quit using Linux in the first place. Come back to the dark side and put Vista back on. You know you want to....

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