Archive for February 2014

Friday Fun: Mobile fish tank

Hackaday told some days ago that a machine vision company Studio diip based in The Netherlands has created  an interesting fish on wheels, a robotic car controlled by a goldfish. The system appears to work pretty well on the video. This is quite funny looking system. A Logitech 9X0 series camera captures overhead images of the

Linux TTY

The TTY subsystem is central to the design of Linux, and UNIX in general. The TTY system in Linux is a throwback to when computers first because interactive in real-time,but is still very much relevant today. Unfortunately, its importance is often overlooked, and it is difficult to find good introductory articles about it. The TTY

My firewall was a security risk

Diffrent DNS vulnerabilities and DNS amplification attacks have been on network security news lately. Yesterday I got e-mail from my ISP Elisa that I had an open DNS server running on my Internet connection, and it should be immediately disabled (someone had reported on problems with this). I was wondering what was happening, because none

HTTP security headers

I just some days ago checked some interesting articles on HTTP security. It really seems that I should look more into those HTTP security headers. 4 HTTP Security headers you should always be using article tells that because HTTP is an extensible protocol browsers have pioneered some useful headers to prevent or increase the difficulty

Shell script testing

Some time ago I had to test several shell scripts how they affect the running environment on Linux. I ended up writing this simple script to help testing. This example script runs testsubject.sh script, and shows changes to enviroment variables the script causes. !/bin/bash # # Script to handle file sending to server # env

Friday fun: If services were built earlier?

Ten years ago this week, on 4 February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg changed the course of western socialisation by putting thefacebook.com on the internet. Mark Zuckerberg’s greatest achievement isn’t financial or technical: Facebook has turned its users into networks of anxious spies. What if Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Angry Birds were built much earlier in the

ePanorama to social media integration steps

I have  done some integration from ePanorama.net to some of the most popular social media services: Twitter and Facebook. You can find ePanorama.net now at Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/epanoramanet and you can find ePanorama.net also on Twitter at https://twitter.com/epanoramanet. I have used Twitter for a long time, but earlier I has to post information new postings

fsniper

In Linux system almost everything is a file. fsniper is a tool that monitors a given set of directories for new or modified files then applies rule based scripts. It is a very useful tool for handling files automatically when they are created. I have used if for many applications. According to fsniper documentation fsniper

The UNO Overdrive

What do you do when your micro-controller project runs out of horsepower? Well you increase the power in a way or another, like increasing clock speed (maybe up to over-clocking) or change to a faster processor family. What to do when your Arduino Uno isn’t fast enough? The UNO Overdrive article shows The Uno/Dumilanove Overdrive,

Map of submarine telecom cables

The international backbone of Internet is largely based on a network submarine fiber optic cables. There are lots of them.  TeleGeography’s free interactive Submarine Cable Map is based on Global Bandwidth research, and depicts active and planned submarine cable systems and their landing stations. Selecting a cable on the map projection provides access to the cable’s