[root@marz~]# killing time on planet earth
Whenever you’re stuck in a small shop with a limited budget, it can be pretty hard to find a good, inexpensive application that can do five things: Port scanning Vulnerability scanning Some kind of patch level detection Wrap everything up into reporting that can show all the results by machine. Doesn’t cost an arm, leg, […]
Lately ISPs have been claiming the high usage of bandwidth is forcing them to take steps to manage the traffic on their networks. A few have taken some controversial steps like Comcast, who have caused an uproar over capping file transfers on peer to peer networks like Bit Torrent. There has also been some cases […]
Early history The idea of automated beings able to think for themselves goes all the way back to ancient times, when stories of Greek and Western mythology told of living statues and dragon’s teeth coming to life as sentient or subservient beings. Some of the earliest ideas about robots in the mechanical sense began […]
The definition of a robot or bot according to the dictionary is: A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance. Today there are millions of bots or robots in existence, doing thousands of different jobs […]
Pure FTP is a nice alternative to the standard VSFTP daemon that comes with many ”Nix flavors. It has the ability to authenticate against mysql, ldap, pam, and the passwd file. You can even chain the authentication methods together to check all or some of them if another fails, this is very nifty if you […]