BitTorrent, the leader and creator of the P2P technology that is driving most of the video and large-file peer-to-peer exchanges just announced that they bought µTorrent (micro-Torrent or uTorrent), the company providing the smallest, lightest (and maybe, fastest) BitTorrent client. Apparently, they intend to re-inforce their presence, possibly in preparation of an extension of the…
Category: Routers & networks
Very slow network on Win2K
On a PC computer equiped with Windows 2000, I had a major problem of network slowness (when accessing the network, all operations seemed to atke ages to complete). I admit I was somewhat lost without a solution. So, I decided to use the ever-powerful solution: Google. It allowed me to find a web site with…
How do your web site look?
This is the tough question that BrowserShots.org web site anwsers for you. They provide a simple way to test your web site in a large variety of configurations and browsers. This is a very nice idea founded on the voluntary help of computers installed all over the world (widely distributed architecture). This way, you will…
Public-Key cryptography ready to shatter?
Public-Key Cryptography is a very common technique used to protect sensitive information by encoding it in such a way that decoding relies on the extreme difficulty of some mathematics techniques (like finding the root factors of a prime integer). Today, a large part of our security is relying on this (including most of the secure…
BEFSX41 upgrade: v1.52.9/10 is still crap
My home LAN router is a Linksys BEFSX41 (v1.0) as you may remember from my previous information about Linksys BEFSX41 upgrades. A few days ago, I decided to come back to upgrading the router (in the faint hope of increasing its performance). The latest firmware available for download is currently 1.52.10. However, my first move…
Security bug in Opera 9.0
A quick security information newsbit about my prefered web browser (Opera): Security outfit iDefense just found a bug, that would have significant security implications, in the recent Opera versions 9.0 and 9.01. Version 9.02 is immediately available on the site and corrects this.
DNS service: Pingability
A web service for those of you willing to check their DNS declaration: Pingability quick DNS check.
Bad modem/routers for P2P
I recently found a intersting list of modems/routers that do not survive well with P2P applications (let’s remember here that these applications can be very stressful for a network and its devices: hundreds or thousands of connections with a total traffic usually reaching the maximum limit of the network link). This is a list of…
Collateral damage from SPAM
Back from my Summer vacations, a little surprise was waiting for me with more than 20,000 messages stored in the verious mailboxes I use daily. First, I thought that I had been receiving a mere flood of SPAM (I get easily 300 SPAMs a day, so in a period of 10 days it could have…