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That’s the name of an interesting paper published on the website of NTA Monitor. From the abstract: This paper outlines some of the common VPN security flaws that NTA Monitor have found during the last three years while performing VPN se- curity tests. The paper concentrates on remote access VPN configurations using the IPsec p ...

If you specify files on the emacs command line, you’ll notice an annoying feature of the new emacs version 22. The splash/help screen is always been shown. You need to click a mouse button or press a key before you can see the content of your files. Append (setq inhibit-splash-screen t) to your init scripts in order to avoid this “f ...

While browsing some skype related sites, i came across the skype developer site for skype on linux. There’s a new version of skype for linux approaching. The release number will be 1.4 and (according to the developers blog), it will be out in about 2 months. According to the developer blog, the new version will be compatible with version ...

Well … i should prepare for my next exam on tuesday right now … but surfing the net is much more fun:

I started to use arch linux about two months ago and i still run it on my laptop (i usually tend to change my distribution every two weeks). Arch seems to be the best distro that i ever tried. It has a steady update process and even bigger updates work with only few problems.

I don’t care about the noise my laptop produces, but when i sit at the university library the cpu fan seems to be very noisy =) The fan starts running from time to time and is very aggressive in its cooling attempts. I hope to get some improvements in this concern with cpu frequency scaling. My Intel Celeron M (1.40GHz) can run at 175 ...

I just found the following interesting features in konqueror by fluke: You can control konqueror the same way that you can control vi! Press h for left, j for down, k for up and l for right. You can open a konsole terminal window with the current konqueror directory as working directory by pressing F4 (don’t do Alt+F4 ;)) Did you kn ...

It might not be new to you, but i’m still looking for my favorite linux distribution. Right now a new candidate for the “best linux distribution ever” appeared on my laptop: Archlinux. The Archlinux people promise to ship a lightweight and flexible linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple And they seem to keep this promise ...

Some of my skype contacts asked me to blog in English and i promised to do so … So here we go: I’ve been looking quite a while for an vi-clone that integrates nicely into KDE. I used to use vim for my day-to-day command line editing and needed an editor that can do the same things embedded into KDE applications.My first guess was to goo ...