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This weeks RH is P2P.

Google DNS

Google made two DNS servers available. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. With this they can read what you look up (in their logs), if you use these servers. I wouldn't use these servers other than for debugging perhaps, and I don't think Google knows what they're in for; if these nameservers catch on, I think google will be swamped with requests that it never considered. In the end people might see service interruptions if the Google nameservers cannot cope.

PS: this isn't about advertisement anymore either. Other than knowing where you POP3 your mail there is no revenue for Google with this service. Unless they smuggle a false answer into your DNS lookup request they can't mix any advertisements into it. However imagine they "hijack" your POP3 and send you to a POP3 server that contains email advertisements, just once a day. Ohh the revenue in that would be sweet for them, and it may go unnoticed.

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The RH for this week is BSD.

Disabling the GUI on Solaris 10

Found this on the web.

To disabled dtlogin type command:

# /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d

To enable dtlogin type command:

# /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -e

My thumbprint

I made my thumbprint today on the scanner, it turned out pretty. Here it is. I cut it up with gimp a little changing the resolution only.

New VPS at Hub.org

I started turning my home computer (uranus) off at nights since the fans are pretty loud and it's right beside my bed. This meant that for the centroid.eu zone there was a single point of failure since centroid.eu has 2 nameservers one of them being uranus.

So then I looked for a cheap VPS one that also allows me to do the TTLPATCH testing on wildcarddnsd and I've found one at hub.org. The server which I call dione is located in Panama of all places, which is far enough for a good TTL balancing.

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This weeks RH is Perl.

Windows 7 and IPv6

I had some time tonight to get IPv6 in windows working, and it does work like a charm. See picture for the config (in german).

The IPv6 addresses are statically set and are behind a firewall. I can see the dancing KAME turtle with IE8.

5 Euros donated to Wikipedia

I use wikipedia quite often. Especially when it gets a little boring. I hope the five euros will cover my bandwidth charges, and it just wouldn't be the same with flashing banners greeting me everytime I go there.

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Todays random hackepedia is Symlinks.