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A windows server that a customer handles got exploited and used as an FTP repository for a few hours last week. While driving to Pennsylvania for Thanksgiving, I walked him through applying an access control list (ACL) to his router’s ethernet port to stop the abusive traffic. He’s become much more interested in how ACLs work, so today when the topic was mentioned on NANOG‘s mailing list, I forwarded this long list of network security links to him. Like most lists of links, some are more useful than others. =]

Ooh.. Arcade Ringtones for your Nokia phone.

I’m trying out SmartFTP, and I’m quite impressed.

For years I used LeechFTP, which has ceased development and is getting rather hoary with age. Any new FTP client would have to have the following features: free (not shareware, not a demo), multithreaded downloads, queueing support, resume-on-fail support, and an interface that wasn’t designed by a blind monkey. So far, SmartFTP has beaten out the rest on all of these fronts.

How to drive fast on drugs… as if you didn’t know already.

Humans all around the world must unite to withstand the dolphin’s corruptive ways. Fear the dolphins.

One day I hope to obtain my Master’s Degree from the Institute of Druidic Technology.

I knew it: “In its purest form, Klondike is very difficult to win. Cards are turned over from the stock to the waste in sets of 3 and there is no redeal. Playing this way you can win at best around 3% of the time. “

Visit the Bullwhip Home Page. Do it now! *crack!*

You may be a geek if you apply the the OSI Model to dating.

Robots!