The How To Geek Website published a Wireshark tutorial that can be useful to learn to start using this powerful network tool. How to Use Wireshark to Capture, Filter and Inspect Packets – How-To Geek via kwout

Here is a very good infographic that explains HTTP server header response. The full infographic is available after the jump. Server Headers 101 (Infographic) via kwout

BBC reported a brief Facebook outage yesterday. I was just curious about the way Facebook communicated on the outage. I didn’t find any formal information on their blog for instance. I just found this 30 Min. gap of service in their Platform Live Status page: Platform Live Status – Facebook Developers via kwout

Chris palmer’s presentation at Web 2.0 expo gives some advices to maintain high performance while using HTTPS. And I like specially the introduction slide High Performance, Low Cost, and Strong Security: Pick Any Three: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 – Co-produced by TechWeb & O’Reilly Conferences, March 31 – April 03, 2009, San Francisco, [...]

I found this map of the Internet on Wikipedia. It is based on early 2005 data. It is stated in the Wikipedia description: This graph represents less than 30% of the Class C networks reachable by the data collection program in early 2005. Image:Internet map 1024.jpg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia via kwout

Lifehacker blog published a very useful post, that lists the options available to protect privacy when using Bittorrent: Use PeerGuardian IP-Blocking application: This is not a bullet proof solution, as people or organizations monitoring the network could use any IP address. Anyway it’s a first level of protection. Use Tor or SSH Proxy to hide [...]

File Dropper is a new file hosting service that offers 5 GB of free storage. This service looks simple: It’s 2 steps process, first upload your file, and second share your personal link. And the service is supposed to be less annoying than Rapidshare , as their about page states: FileDropper.com was created as a [...]

Proogly is a new anonymous web based proxy: Proogly Proxy via kwout I tested this web based anonymous proxy and it is quite fast. At least faster than TOR. Web based anonymous proxies are not a new thing on the Internet. But Proogly integrates Web 2.0/Ajax features (ability to hide almost completely the banner, disable [...]

Alec Saunders published an interesting post that describes how to do some quick data mining with Facebook. The starting point is to click on the advertisers link at the bottom of any Facebook page. Follow the steps as described by Alec up to the audience choice. That’s where the data mining can be done. For [...]

Digital inspiration published a useful tip to check if your computer is connecting to the INTERNET without your knowledge.  Of course in most case a firewall properly configured should notify any unexpected connection to the INTERNET. But in some special case, the method proposed by Digital inspiration is useful to track what’s going on in [...]