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Unusual usages of a wireless router/access point
These days you can find on the market a lot of wireless routers/access points powered by a customized Linux distribution. - 20 December 2006

Multi-boot iPAQ (hx4700)
Windows CE, Familiar v.0.8.4 GPE, Familiar v.0.8.4 OPIE - 21 March 2007
Squid: Blocking Unwanted Sites
See how to block unwanted sites using Squid Web Proxy Cache - 14 July 2005
Squid Usefull Tasks
Squid Web Proxy Cache does not normally need user intervention, but from time to time, you may be forced to do some tasks like rotating logs and cleaning the cache. - 14 July 2005
Installing Honeyd 1.0 and Arpd 0.2 under Fedora Core 4 (with gcc 4.0.0)
A journey in the world if modifying, open source, applications to suit your needs. In this particular case I have made some code changes and upgrades. - 12 July 2005
Adamantix - Quick Start, Part.I - WARNING: this is almost finished
I wanted to test Adamantix. After some tweaks I was pleased. Se some basic tasks that you have to do for a, not so, basic system start. - 07 July 2005
Fedora Core 3 and FireWire videocamera
Yes, you can do video capture in Linux too. Read this introductory document if you are interested. - 21 June 2005
Fedora Core 3 updates (automatically and/or manually)
Operating system update is a critical process. Because some think it is to hard to be done I have decided to write this document. - 20 June 2005
Fedora Core 3 installation failed (disk_dos.c:485)
Once upon a time I had to install Fedora Cored 3 and I was bitten by an annoying error. A rare one, I think. But not so hard to solve it. - 19 June 2005

SSL access for Allied Telesyn's routers and Layer 3 switches
From HTTP to HTTPS ... - 18 May 2006, updated
SSH access for Allied Telesyn's routers and Layer 3 switches
We all know that using the Telnet protocol to manage sensitive network devices is a security hole. That is why I am presenting here a method to manage Allied Telesyn's routers and Layer 3 switches using the Secure Shell protocol (ssh). - 18 May 2006, updated
Information Disclosure Vulnerability in the IPv6 stack
In the "IPv4 only" era this was called broadcast ping. - 03 May 2006

GARP, GVRP, GMRP
Generic Attribute Registration Protocol - 27 November 2006
CDP
Cisco Discovery Protocol - 27 November 2006
Naming, labeling and coloring the network ports
You may easily find a lot of informations about switching, routing, VLAN's, configuring firewalls and much more things related to a computer network but you may face a simple yet complicated problem: how to label the ports and what names should those ports have ? - 23 September 2005

Multi-boot iPAQ (hx4700)
Windows CE, Familiar v.0.8.4 GPE, Familiar v.0.8.4 OPIE - 21 March 2007
Backup Windows CE on HP hx4700 PDA
Not an easy task, not a very hard task, but there are precious informations. - 21 March 2007

LDAP Authentication to Active Directory in VBScript
How to perform LDAP Authentication to Active Directory using VBScript. - 13 February 2007
Speed considerations in using the "CString" class
By changing the way I have previously used the CString class I have reached a 300% speed increase in loading and processing a text file. - 18 January 2006

Installing sudo-1.6.8p9 on SPARC/Solaris 8
Quoting from the sudo 's web page: " Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while logging the commands and arguments. " - 27 June 2005

Command Line Usefull Tools
If only the command prompt is available ... - 25 June 2007
Applying Windows Firewall settings through Group Policy
I have applied the setting for Windows Firewall in a network of Windows XP SP2, machines and a Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller. According to Microsoft this can be done even if you have an Active Directory Domain Controller running Windows 2000 Server. This document is showing you, step by step, how to do it. - 15 July 2005
IISADMIN failed to start with a stupid error: 2147549183
I have solved this problem using the knowledge gathered in the course of solving the one described in the previous article. - 21 June 2005
Automatic Updates are not performed and error 0x80004015 is logged
I have banged my head to the walls, metaphorical speaking, to solve this ugly error. Searching the net and Microsoft's site did not helped me. This article is interesting because of other problems that may be solved in a similar manner. - 21 June 2005
How to find the settings applied through GPO in Windows XP
If you do not know how to do it or if you have never heard about this stuff read this article. - 21 June 2005

Using Visual Studio and xsltproc to create xml projects for transforming .xml files to .html files
If you use .xml files to generate .html ones with the xsltproc application under (unfortunatelly) Windows the following procedure could help you a lot (at least, it helped me).
The content of this site is builded as outlined in this document. - 16 November 2005

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