Archive for August, 2005
He encontrado la siguiente referencia a un restaurante de postres en el diario Directo al Paladar que transcribo literalmente:
En la ciudad de Barcelona existen numerosos restaurantes que tienen cierto prestigio y nos proponen una carta de vinos dulces para los postres. Entre estos restaurantes destaca Espaisucre.
Es único en el mundo. Su carta se basa esencialmente [...]
Configuring a silent network interface
0 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana August 29th, 2005 in Networking, SecurityA silent network interface is one whose main purpose is to passively monitor for traffic while not revealing or advertising its presence. By default, network interfaces in UNIX-like systems, even when configured with no IP address, could send or respond to ARP traffic, thus defeating its stealthy operation.
To prevent a network interface from sending or [...]
WPA-PSK with WPA2 and SUSE Linux
3 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana August 28th, 2005 in Security, WirelessSUSE Linux 10.0 Beta3 has native support for Wireless network interfaces using open authentication mode, shared-keys (like WEP), pre-shared keys (PSK) and extensible authentication (EAP).
Each network interface is configured using a plain-text file located in /etc/sysconfig/network. The configuration file usually matchs the following patterns:
ifcfg-wlan-bus–
ifcfg-wlan-
The first naming convention is used when SUSE Linux is unable to [...]
Disabling Dashboard in Mac OS X Tiger
0 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana August 19th, 2005 in Apple, Mac OS XI found the following link in macosxhints describing how to disable (or enable) Dashboard in Mac OS X Tiger.
Launch Terminal and then enter the following commands…
To turn Dashboard off:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
To turn Dashboard on:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO
You have to restart the Dock after making either change for it to [...]
How to disable Bonjour in Apple Mac OS X Tiger
12 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana August 19th, 2005 in Apple, Mac OS X, NetworkingI personally don’t want Bonjour (Zeroconf, mDNSResponder, Rendezvous) running all the time, because I rarely use it and because it gives away information such as your username, what services you’re running, computer name and more, depending on what you’re running. From a security perspective, you’re making it easy for an attacker to enumerate services and [...]
Pinnacle PC TV Stereo under Linux
5 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana August 19th, 2005 in LinuxHow to properly set my Pinnacle PC TV Stereo PCI card under Linux.
The card I bought is based on the Phillips SAA7134 chipset which is fully supported by the Linux kernel:
lspci -v
…
02:0c.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc.: Unknown device 002b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
Memory at e7004000 [...]
How to prevent the creation of .DS_Store files on network volumes
2 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana August 19th, 2005 in Apple, Filesystem, Mac OS XThis KnowledgeBase article explains how to prevent OS X from creating new .DS_Store files when opening folders on remote volumes mounted using SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV. The creation of .DS_Store files (and more so, ._AppleDouble files which are not covered in this hint) is frequently the source of complaints against Mac users, who often [...]
¿Por qué la falta de seguridad es algo implícito en los sistemas informáticos?
0 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana August 19th, 2005 in PersonalHe leído un interesante artículo, que trata sobre por qué el software antivirus es relativamente inútil contra nuevos especímenes y la razón de que la informática sea cada día más insegura, y que paso a traducir a continuación.
Neil Barrett se remonta a los orígenes de la informática moderna para explicar por qué el software antivirus [...]
How nerdy are you?
Want to change the background of the login screen?
0 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana August 19th, 2005 in Apple, Mac OS X, UIChanging the background of the login window has never been so easy.
Look in folder “/Library/Desktop Pictures” for an item named “Aqua Blue.jpg”. This is the resource Mac OS X uses for the login background screen. By editing, or replacing this file, one can easily change the looking of the login window. However, it’s recommended to [...]
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