Mauritius Blog Tracker

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This Week in Tech: the grandmother of all tech podcast. Leo and John C make a good pair. It’s nice to hear (always) opposing views. The recent episodes with Jason Brooklyn Gangtsa-style Calacanis were full of insight. He is a great guest.
Infected: Martin Sargent, the Internet Superstar wannabe, has great interview skills and has crazy [...]

I must acknowledge that the best anti-spam tool is Spamhaus (not SpamAssassin). They maintain a blacklist of spamming and rogue IP addresses. The listing and delisting are done promptly in a very professional manner. The listing decision and spam proofs are available on their website. If an IP address is blacklisted by Spamhaus, you can [...]

It is very easy, these days, to launch a DDOS attack on a server or website. Thousands of computers can be controlled centrally by one person. The “zombies” get their orders usually through an IRC chat channel.
There are basically two types of denial of service attack:
1. UDP Flood
Fake UDP packets are sent to the victim [...]

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Once in a while (once in a blue moon?), I write a technical work-related post. The lingo may be hard to catch but a knowledge of networking will help. We have exceeded 240,000 routes since October and it is not getting lower. In comparison, there were less than 100k routes in 2000 and less that [...]

With the high price of oil, it is important to distinguish the alternative sources of energy available to us. Contrary to popular beliefs, not all alternative sources of energy are good. Solar energy on roof tops is great. Wind mills are good but may be an eyesore. Biodiesel/biofuel is bad I think. Using agriculture [...]

L’équipementier en télécommunications Alcatel-Lucent a annoncé que ses équipes de recherche aux Etats-Unis et en France ont établi un record mondial de transmission optique à 25,6 térabits par seconde (Tbit/s, soit mille milliards de bits de données) sur une seule fibre, soit une bande passante suffisante pour transmettre les données de plus de 600 [...]