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 [...]

A 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 [...]

SUSE 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 [...]

I 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 [...]

I 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 [...]

How 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 [...]

This 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 [...]

He 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?

Changing 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 [...]