Category: Internet

  • A new TLD for Internet: .mobi

    This is not everyday that Internet adopts a new TLD or Top Level Domain. We were quite well used to the more common .com, .net, .org, .fr and other similar national suffixes. Now, here comes .mobi targetting use by the mobile operators (mostly in telephony) a little like we had received .tv some time ago.…

  • How to Create RSS feeds with Dreamweaver

    Maybe like me some time ago you think about taking advantage of some of the blog techiques without using the actual blog tools (I finally jumped into WordPress to ease my life as you can see). In this case, you will certainly be interested in producing RSS feeds (if you don’t know what i’m speaking…

  • Internationale Zurich Gruppe

    Did you notice this company? Probably not. This is the latest in a long list of stock trading companies that called me from overseas trying to sell me stocks (in this case, they start with Quantum, a company offering battery and battery management solutions – actually a good company). What is funny about it is…

  • BEFSX41 – The DNS proxy works well

    BEFSX41 – The DNS proxy works well

    Good news: Even if this is not plainly written in the documentation of this fine little Ethernet router from Linksys, the BEFSX41 is fully able to operate as a DNS proxy. You just have to: Use DHCP on the WAN side (on the side of your Internet Service Provider). Configure your machines (Windows, Linux, MacOs)…

  • AdSense, delay to sense

    Your blog contains AdSense ad banners and you are wondering whether they are always taking into account the real content of the articles you publish. A few remarks from a mere user.

  • RIAA says “Jail the ghost!”

    Gertrude Walton is probably not the last person and certainly not the first to be facing the wrath of the RIAA while this association fights against music pirates. She is a bit unusual in the sense that she is an 80-year old Granny and stands accused of downloading 700 songs off peer-to-peer (P2P) networks under…

  • Need more traffic, do not pay for site submission

    There is a deafening advertisment flood to increase your web site traffic. This looks like snake oil to me: Need more traffic, xxx$ for site submission.

  • HDCP/HDMI security: virus comes to HD TV

    HDCP/HDMI security: virus comes to HD TV

    As we are interested into the HDCP/HDMI technology that the manufacturers are preparing for a wide distribution, we start finding a few amazing facts. We had seen previously that HDCP was a technology doomed to fail in front of the attacks by the media pirates, but there is already worse (for the legal users).