Archive for the 'Internet' Category

Mediatomb to Pioneer BDP-440

Sunday, December 4th, 2011

Yesterday i got my new BluRay player. I got a Pioneer BDP-440 BlueRay player. And as it is suposed to play video from a DLNA server I wanted to install and get that going also.

So I did some search on the networks and after some reading it seems that one of the most used and the one I liked the most was Mediatomb.

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Sendmail and smarthost and authenticated submission on port 587

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Today I came across a small and interesting thing. One of our customer have been upgrading from suse to centos, and that also changed the mailer from postfix to sendmail. I consider myself a quite skilled sendmail person but this was a new one.

The system itself is a dumb system and we should forward everyting to a smart host. But we need to do that over port 587 and authenticated.

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Firefox 5 and ask to save when close and app tabs

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

As I just said I have switched to Firefox 5 and is quite happy with it. But there are some small things one has to do to get it to work as I want.

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Switch to firefox 5

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

I’m running Firefox as my main browser. I have chrome installed and I have been using it a bit but I don’t really like it (and I have had some interesting problems with it – like can’t go to page 2 on googles own search result). And I’m also using it for development and firebug and firephp is a necessary must for me. So I’m staying with Firefox.

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Firefox plugin Master Password+

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

As I have been using firefox to store relative sensitive informations (like certificates) there is a STRONG recommendation to turn on Master Password. This encrypts and secure the databases for firefox (and thunderbird) so that cookies, passwords and certificates and so is protected. And even of someone can hack into you computer they cant get to that information.

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Dont trust facebook to keep you photos safe

Friday, July 1st, 2011

If you upload photos to facebook, perhaps you should make sure you have a backup of them.

In a post in my RSS feed today, there was a problem with digikams plugin that uploaded pictures to facebook. (more…)

IPv6 Matrix Test results published for IPv6 Day

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

From ISOC England

LONDON – 8 June 2011

In preparation for the World IPv6 Day on 8th June 2011, the English
Chapter of the Internet Society has released the latest figures from its
IPv6 Matrix Project, showing the level of IPv6 connectivity amongst the
world’s 1 million busiest Web sites. A summary of those results can be
found in its latest report, freely downloadable from:
http://www.ipv6matrix.org/reports

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Playing with Empire Avenue

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

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A friend of mine showed me Empire Avenue (http://www.empireavenue.com/). This is partly a game, partly a social media aggregator, and a lot of fun. It works kind of like a Stockmarket for you and you blogs/facebook/twitter.

ANd the code here is fur them to upgdare my rss feed to a blog.

More will come later.

RSA SecureId toke compromised

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

More news from the rss feed – the RSA SecureID token compromised – Read more on Slashdot

Internet 30 years ago

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Does someone remember the internet as it was 30 years ago. In my rss feed was a lite slashdot article about someone who as started to play back the usenet news archive as it was 30 years a go in real time.

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