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Internet warfare: All Georgia Government web sites down

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About a month ago the website of Georgia’s President was under a distributed denial of service attack and offline for some time. Based on forensic analysis it became clear that the root of these attacks were to be found in Russia.

Now with a state of war declared as it seems all official Government web sites of Georgia are not responding, not reachable or do not display any content…

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i-Patriot, Censorship, Internet 2 and the day the routers died

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Last week again saw strong discussions on the changes happening on the Internet, this time fueled by an video where Lawrence Lessig provided insides on an potential i-Patriot Act ante portas – similar to the 9/11 crashing of civil rights. Watch the “video” or read “the highlights” of it – the points raised make a lot of sense in the context of the changes seen the last 12/24 months.

When listening to the discussions it reminded us of the song “The day the routers died” from the RIPE 55 conference. While definitely not intended to be political in the context of an i-Patriot act it gets a completely new twist (particularly some of the verses)…

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IT-Terms explained: Cloud computing

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In the 10 minutes video below some of the key “figure-heads” of Web 2.0 are being asked to give a short definition of what cloud computing might be.

While some didn’t take the question too serious its quite interesting which benefits others have identified…

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Today: SysAdminDay

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Friday, July 25th, 2008, is the 9th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication…

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Web: Naked Girls for Captcha solving

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While reports that online porn sites offering free access when the visitors enter the right response to a Captcha secured entry field have been around for a while (see for example “BoingBoing 2004″ ) with recent rises in spam originating from Google, Yahoo or Hotmail accounts the discussion on that topic is on again.

Captchas or “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” that are within these relay attacks defeated by visitors to the…

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A Cheatsheet for Firebug

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During the current renovation of Duvet-Dayz (the next parts come online after the weekend) we have used one great tool extensively – Firebug.

Like with other debuggers or development tools there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts to remember. But forgive us, when you’re working with many different tools – from Photoshop to Development IDE’s to debuggers, not everyone can remember 150 different keyboard shortcuts and then use the right one at the right place.

So like many others we work with cheat sheets aka help sheets – short summaries of the most important commands on one or two pages that are available for almost all tools we use. When we started using Firebug we search on the Internet but we could not find a cheat sheet for this tool.

There is of course the documentation on the “Firebug web site”, well done but quite a few pages to look through whenever you just need a quick glimpse with a help sheet.

So we created our own Firebug cheat sheet and would like to share it with everybody…

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