GateWall Proxy Server, the Internet Connection Sharing Tool, the Swiss Knife for Network Administrators

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Swiss GD Knife

Swiss GD Knife 12/22/2004 01:45 AM
Swiss GD Knife 0.0.4 released

Geocaching Swiss Army Knife

Geocaching Swiss Army Knife 08/27/2004 01:44 PM

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The final goal will be to produce a Geocaching tool that has all the major features of EasyGPS, Watcher, GPX Spinner, and Geo2Ozi. There will also be other unique features that will benefit the broader geocaching community. Features include: Multiple cache Databases Direct upload/download of waypoints to GPS Add and edit your own waypoints Import Individual GPX files or a whole folder Intelligent merging of multiple GPX files Display cache offline in browser (live Internet…

The Swiss Army Knife of USB Drives

The Swiss Army Knife of USB Drives 08/31/2004 09:38 AM

"Introducing the flamethrowing Swiss
Army knife"

"Introducing the flamethrowing Swiss
Army knife" 05/26/2004 09:00 AM

Thinkgeek: USB Swiss Army Knife in Stock

Thinkgeek: USB Swiss Army Knife in Stock 05/24/2004 03:43 PM
The Swiss Army Knife with the built-in USB flash drive has sort of become a joke around here, mostly because it typifies the sort of ridiculous 'cram flash into every crevice' trend that's going on. The difference from most other...

Introducing the flamethrowing Swiss Army
knife

Introducing the flamethrowing Swiss Army
knife 05/25/2004 08:14 AM
Cash'n'Carrion Exciting new range of must-have kit

New Network Tool Tries To Block Illegal
File Sharing

New Network Tool Tries To Block Illegal
File Sharing 04/21/2004 12:54 PM
Palisade Systems appears to be the first network monitoring company to license Audible Magic's technology for identifying song files, and claims that their new tool can stop illegal song file transfers in their tracks. There are a few other companies out there like Palisade, and I imagine they're all working on something similar. Announcements like this make the RIAA happy, but are unlikely to do very much. As the article points out, the technology doesn't work on encrypted systems - which is where file sharing programs are rapidly headed. Also, the company still hasn't demonstrated how well the technology works. It's likely that active file sharers will figure out ways around it within a day, making the technology somewhat worthless in the long run. Meanwhile, people who will get stopped are those who aren't necessarily trying to do anything illegal, but are just doing things like emailing themselves a song, so they can shift it from one computer to another. Once again, the industry will end up pushing file sharers further underground, but it's unlikely this will do much to slow down file sharing.

Swiss Army Knife Meets the Kitchen Sink

Swiss Army Knife Meets the Kitchen Sink 09/15/2004 06:56 PM
Source: SearchDay - Looking for a search toolbar, an RSS reader, online bookmark manager or web research manager? Look no further: Pluck incorporates all of these features into a single, elegant search tool....

Swissbit's Swiss Army Knife/USB Flash
Drive @ TechTastic.ca

Swissbit's Swiss Army Knife/USB Flash
Drive @ TechTastic.ca 09/18/2004 09:06 AM

Home desktop's Swiss Army knife slices
into office market

Home desktop's Swiss Army knife slices
into office market 04/07/2005 05:24 AM
globetechnology.com Apr 7 2005 9:40AM GMT

HotFix Watch: You are not prompted to
reset the server connection account
during a site reset after you manually
change the server connection account

HotFix Watch: You are not prompted to
reset the server connection account
during a site reset after you manually
change the server connection account 04/25/2004 12:41 PM

Auditor security collection released - a
swiss army knife for security
assessments.

Auditor security collection released - a
swiss army knife for security
assessments. 05/20/2004 05:30 PM
Max (May 20 2004)

Profiling network administrators

Profiling network administrators 03/06/2004 02:05 AM
http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0301hackerslamo.html Adrian Lamo, a white hat hacker who pled guilty to accessing The New York Times computers without permission, agreed to share what he knows about some of the common IT security slips network administrators make. Lamo studies journalism at American River College in Sacramento, Calif, as he awaits sentencing next month. VIA Root Secure I was wondering what Adrian was up to. (His emails are bouncing these days because there...

Proxool: Proxy JDBC Connection Pool

Proxool: Proxy JDBC Connection Pool 11/05/2003 12:09 PM
Proxool 0.8.2

TrakSoft Inc. Announces the Newest
Release of TrakSoft PDM, Version 3.5,
The "Swiss Army Knife" of Personal Data
Management

TrakSoft Inc. Announces the Newest
Release of TrakSoft PDM, Version 3.5,
The "Swiss Army Knife" of Personal Data
Management 06/14/2004 03:36 AM
TrakSoft Inc., a software development and marketing firm, today announced it’s newest release of TrakSoft PDM 3.5, an extremely robust Personal Data Manager. [PRWEB Jun 14, 2004]

FlashPoint launches fastest photo
sharing on the Internet. Innovative
Qurio Instant Photo Server allows
instant photo sharing with anyone, any
time, anywhere, directly from the
control of your own PC.

FlashPoint launches fastest photo
sharing on the Internet. Innovative
Qurio Instant Photo Server allows
instant photo sharing with anyone, any
time, anywhere, directly from the
control of your own PC. 09/09/2004 03:46 AM
FlashPoint prepares to unlock the pictures of more than 40 million digital camera owners who have their pictures trapped in their PC. Consumers are tired of trying to share their pictures with cumbersome email attachments and time consuming uploads to web sites. The innovative Qurio Instant Photo Server allows you to instantly share thousands of full resolution pictures over the Internet, directly from your own PC. And, since your pictures stay right on your own hard drive, you remain in complete control of your personal pictures. [PRWEB Sep 9, 2004]

10.3 Server: Enable internet sharing via
AirPort

10.3 Server: Enable internet sharing via
AirPort 11/16/2003 01:47 PM
To share your Ethernet connection through AirPort under 10.3 Server, do the following:Ethernet card must have a static IP. In Server Admin, under NAT, share your Built-in Ethernet. Under DHCP, create a new subnet with the fol...

"that six demoted administrators will
maintain their salaries in their
positions as teachers and desk job
administrators"

"that six demoted administrators will
maintain their salaries in their
positions as teachers and desk job
administrators" 12/10/2003 03:08 PM

Windows Server 2003 Statement of Support
(SOS) for Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0

Windows Server 2003 Statement of Support
(SOS) for Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 03/14/2003 12:26 AM

DoS in Plug and Play Web Server Proxy
Server

DoS in Plug and Play Web Server Proxy
Server 10/31/2003 05:15 PM
Oliver Karow (Oct 31 2003)

ADAMSites Tool for Internet Security and
Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004
Enterprise Edition

ADAMSites Tool for Internet Security and
Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004
Enterprise Edition 04/03/2005 03:28 PM

High-tech Swiss tool hits the
half-century

High-tech Swiss tool hits the
half-century 12/26/2003 12:25 PM
Swiss Info Dec 26 2003 10:27AM ET

[tool] webstretch 0.1.6 http inspection
proxy

[tool] webstretch 0.1.6 http inspection
proxy 07/17/2004 05:05 AM
Simon Shanks (Jul 12 2004)

Python-Fortran Connection Tool

Python-Fortran Connection Tool 11/18/2003 05:34 PM
Please submit any Pyfort patches

Using Apache As A Proxy Server

Using Apache As A Proxy Server 06/14/2002 06:12 AM
Unless you've been cryogenically frozen for the last twenty years, you probably already know what Apache is. It's the planet's most popular Web server, with a humongously-high number of Web sites relying on it to serve up content in a reliable and efficient manner. It has an enthusiastic fan following, an active development community, and the love and loyalty of millions of Webmasters all over the planet.

The cool thing about Apache, though, is that it's not just a Web server. It can do lots of other things too - and of its more interesting (though less well-known) capabilities includes the ability to act as a proxy server for both HTTP and FTP connections over a network. -- Icarus

"zeldman.mt"

Squid : Master This Proxy Server

Squid : Master This Proxy Server 05/12/2004 02:27 PM

Authoxy authenticating proxy server

Authoxy authenticating proxy server 04/18/2004 04:33 AM
Initial News Post

What Does a Connection Mean in a Social
Network?

What Does a Connection Mean in a Social
Network? 08/03/2004 02:58 PM

Peter Caupta IV has a lot to say about bi and uni directional relationships.

BTW I hereby nominate Peter to help create the OpenEvents movement.

Email is Dead. IM is the future. RSS is the future. Social Networks are Useless.

I've been hearing all these predictions and statements. And they are certainly not that far off. These new(ish) technologies are certainly going through their growing pains, but they will certainly challenge the old(ish) ones.

Scott Allen points us to Tim O'Reilly's statement: "all the social software services are a hack because we haven't really reinvented the address book."

The article about O'Reilly's presentation goes on to say:

Tim showed screen shots from a Microsoft Research project that could answer questions such as who you communicate with around this particular topic. The question that follows is how we build tools for creating networks and managing our contacts. These tools could end up as part of Outlook and proprietary software, or they could become a connection between Orkut and GMail. "We have to Napsterize the address book and the calendar so that we own the data about our social network but we are able to query our friends about who they know.

I agree with the vision. But, I am hoping to bring the conversation down a few hundred feet and talk some specifics about issues:

Firstly, distributed event listings and calendars are becoming the norm:

Marc Canter pointed me to RSSCalendar.com today. We've relaunched WhizSpark with crazy-mad-sortable-wicked-searc hable-republishable event rss listings. Upcoming.org has been around for awhile doing similar stuff. SocialWeb.net, although local (and not using xml), has been publishing event listings on other sites for years. Even eVite /IAC iswaking up to the fact that they can't control the event listings of the world (Holding breath on that one!).

So, I don't think distributed and sharable event and schedules are that far off.

But, distributed social networks?

I think there are some issues re: FOAF that need to be addressed, b4 social networks will integrate it in a meaningful way. And when I say meaningful: anything more than allowing them to import profile data and upload connections to be invited.

I've posted some questions up on the FOAF wiki regarding these issues and haven't gotten any answers. [SORRY: See my answers below - Marc]

So, here they are again in statement and question form.

Most social networks (friendster, ryze, linkedin, IM) create bi-directional connections. This is ideal for creating many connections quickly, because both people have incentives to create the connections. The incentive is that they can collaborate. Depending on the network, the collaboration can take a different form. However, for marketing relationships or "fan/nod" relationships, this isn't ideal. To make an analogy to political ideaologies: if you ascribe to socialism and think that all people are created equal and should be treated equally, bi-directional connections are ideal. But, unfortunately (of fortunately), each of us performs differently and each of us has a different status in society. So, this is where these social networks break down. Since, connections between people are not equal, the incentive for "high" status people to join and use these social networks wanes as more people join and abuse the service.

Orkut is an extreme example of where this "jamming equality into unequal relationships" is highlighted. By forcing people to receive an invitation, there are a million requests for invitation that go out to the members. You thought receiving Friendster invitations got annoying, try receiving 150 please invite me messages to orkut. That is how many I have received in the last month.

LinkedIn is an example of where this type of connection really works. The system is designed to screen people b4 passing along messages or information requests. And ultimately, the goal of the users is to collaborate with people. Since Rupert Murdoch probably doesn't want to collaborate with the street vendor selling newspapers, this system works for this purpose. The business people that use linkedin don't just pass out bi-directional connections on a whim, which prevents people from wasting time with requests that don't deliver value to both parties. Bi-directional connections are suited well for finding and forming mutually beneficial business relationships.

Another type of prevalent connection is outbound uni-directional. Examples of this are address books, FOAF, evite & blogrolls. The connection is defined by one person (the sender) and no approval by the receiver is necessary. This is ideal when people want to show their appreciation and respect. Blogrolls, using this type of connection and are what created the infamous A-List of bloggers. (I read 280 blogs and have a link on my blog for each. However, only somewhere between 5 and 10 people have me in their blogroll.)

Outbound uni-directional connections are what allowed evite and hotmail to grow quickly, back in the day. And if we couldn't store our addresses in an address book, think how difficult it would be to use email.

However, this type of freedom to message who-ever we want, can result in unwanted communications. Since a spammer doesn't need permission to send email to an account, they use outbound uni-directional connections to send their shit. Interestingly, the solution that many people are using for spam-blocking is whitelisting, which is in effect, making email connections: bi-directional connections.

The last type of connection is inbound uni-directional. This type of connection is defined by the receiver and approval is either inherent or optional from the sender. Permission email marketing or double-opt-in marketing is the prime example of this. The marketer advertises a list and the receiver signs up and confirms that it is their address. There isn't really an equivalent of this in Instant Messaging in the US, but in Europe (I believe) permission IM marketing is fairly common.

Plaxo also uses inbound uni-directional connections. For example, I have sent my plaxo card to Bill Clinton, but he hasn't returned the favor. So, I gave him permission to message me, but I don't have permission to message him. I've signed up for eMarketer's mailing list, but if I try to reply, the message bounces. I give permission. And don't get it back. I receive emails, but can't respond.

In this "connection framework", does the fact that friendster uses bi-directional connections make it obvious that fakesters will never have a purpose? Whether they were real, created by a member, or created by Friendster themselves, there were many accounts of celebrities on Friendster. But, the whole concept is pretty ridicilous. Imagine if Britney Spears was forced to use bi-directional connections to communicate? How could she possibly use bi-directional connections to communicate with people like this? The only social network that a celebrity could join and use would be one that used inbond uni-directional connections, because the celebrity can allow people to subscribe to them; to be a fan; without being a fan back. The same logic applies to any media company. A media company cannott possibly listen to all of its listeners.

Here comes the commercial: My Company, WhizSpark, has also built a social network which relies on inbound uni-directional connections (see mailing lists). (We relaunched the site last week and would love feedback, btw.) We've designed the system for the promotion of events. Whereas evite uses outbound uni-directional links to get-people-together at mostly non-comercial events and generates revenue from online ads, and upcoming.org requires bi-directional connections to share free event listsings, WhizSpark was designed around the purpose of promoting events where the promoter/planner makes money(or the event is a marketing expense). In this scenario, getting permission to market-to is necessary, and thus, we use inbound uni-directional connections.

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So, to start addressing Tim O'Reilly's statement about how noone has reinvented the address book yet, I think we need to keep in mind all of the types of connections that are required by different people. In this "connection framework", It is easier to conceptualize what features of different communication and collaboration technologies/applications (IM, RSS, email, social networks, FOAF) will make sense for what purposes. Then, maybe our blog discussions can progress beyond what technology will win and what technology is the best. I know football is exciting and our politics have certainly regressed to two sides fighting it out like it is the super bowl. But in technology, there are certainly still some gray areas left. Right?

Here's my response to Peter's request and quesions on the FOAFnet.org Wiki.....

Hey Peter - sorry for not catching this earlier.

Here's some answers for you and I'll cc: them on my blog (in response to your EXCELLENT, brilliant post....)

The notion of bi-directional relationships can easily be represented in FOAF by defining new kinds of relationships. In our PeopleAggregator product we have 7 kinds of relationships, Tony Perkin's AlwaysOn Network also has several types of relationships.

But no one else supports those new relationship types. It's the agreement between systems that you're asking for.....

Ideally everything would happen imediately - but I want you to take a phased in approach to this.

Each specific type of relationship can be kept track of in a FOAF file. That's clear. We just have to agree upon WHAT exactly is the schema and related APIs to the functionality your request.

We here - are ALL looking forward to the day when more complex, granular, ineffected, relevant relationships can be standardized and exchanged, shared, hidden and every other way you can think of interacting between people.

But the goal of the FOAFnet - first things first - is to exhibit some sort of inter-company agreement to exchange compatible idenitity records. Just getting that to happen is our biggest hurdle. Once that mechanism has been worked out we plan on flowing all sorts of additional information through FOAF. Including what you're requesting.

So what I'd like you to do is to take it upon yourself to help us map out our roadmap. This issue of starting too slow, not biting off enough, crippling FOAFs potential has come up again and again.

And our answer has always been "baby steps before running". We're all experienced at trying to get one of these things working - and we all know what happens when you try and bite off too much.

So PLEASE put onto the roadmap page - the specific tiered step by step manner we ALL can utilize to get us from simple import/export - to the semantic web.

I'd love to talk to you on the phone about this - but for now - there's also the issue of MERGING FOAF files, updating or hot-linking FOAF files and let's not forget all those triple-like rdf vocabs that we left behind - either!

So if you could at least map out an evolution of relevant relationship types - and look at Ed Vitiello's relationship schema - that would be coolio.

Thanks!

Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server

Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server 12/17/2003 07:20 PM
ASSP 1.0.8 released

Adventures of an Open Proxy Server -
LURHQ

Adventures of an Open Proxy Server -
LURHQ 01/07/2004 02:34 PM
Via Joat.... Adventures of an Open Proxy Server Abstract This paper discusses the abuse of misconfigured HTTP proxy servers, taking a detailed look at the types of traffic that flow through this underground network. Also discussed is the use of a "honeyproxy", a server designed to look like a misconfigured HTTP proxy. Using such a tool we can spy on the Internet underground without the need for a full-blown honeypot.

A fix for AppleTalk network connection
problems

A fix for AppleTalk network connection
problems 03/19/2005 02:40 AM
Are you still using AppleTalk? So are we, but only for printing. Nevertheless, it's quite annoying when it doesn't work. Once in a while, AppleTalk won't change Network Number or Zone when you plug it into a network where it ...

SMTP Proxy Server as spam/virus filter

SMTP Proxy Server as spam/virus filter 06/18/2004 04:47 AM
Welcome to new developer adel_acameron

Accelerating IPv6 adoption with Apache
proxy server

Accelerating IPv6 adoption with Apache
proxy server 09/22/2004 08:17 AM

Accelerating IPv6 adoption with Apache
proxy server.

Accelerating IPv6 adoption with Apache
proxy server. 09/21/2004 08:56 PM
Jeff Garzik: Accelerating IPv6 adoption with Apache proxy server. I'm not sure this makes any difference, but it's an interesting idea.

Launch IM apps after network connection
is established

Launch IM apps after network connection
is established 08/12/2004 11:15 AM
In having frustrations of having to go back and hit the reconnec on Yahoo and MSN Messenger after booting up my Mac at home (iChat works fine) due to the slight delay in logging on to my Airport network, I decided a script w...

J2EE SIP Presence and Proxy Server and
SIP Development Platform Source Code
Available for $9,500

J2EE SIP Presence and Proxy Server and
SIP Development Platform Source Code
Available for $9,500 07/13/2004 02:03 AM
The administrator of the former nLoci Corporation has authorized the sale of the source code to the company's J2EE SIP Presence and Proxy Server and SIP development platform for $9,500 per copy. [PRWEB Jul 13, 2004]

Resolve Windows server connection issues
via UAM

Resolve Windows server connection issues
via UAM 09/15/2004 11:06 AM
I've had a problem for a while now connecting to our Windows server (both AFP and FTP) at work. I used to be able to connect to it just fine using the Finder and "Connect to Server..." But now whenever I try to connect to t...

Macworld: Panther Server -- The Server
Admin tool

Macworld: Panther Server -- The Server
Admin tool 12/02/2003 12:30 AM

Swiss home internet use up eight per
cent

Swiss home internet use up eight per
cent 04/20/2004 08:48 AM
DMeurope.com Apr 20 2004 1:11PM GMT
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