old stuff from July, 2006

pldtdsl finally at 384kbps

Saturday, 15 July 2006 7:28 am by noel
posted in firewall, internet

it happened a couple of days ago. i was downloading something and i noticed that my traffic graphs started hitting 40+ kbps max. hmmm…. did pldt finally decide to do something right? so to check, i downloaded an iso of knoppix (696 meg, 1 file). here’s what i found out: my download of the knoppix [...]

firewall hits

Friday, 7 July 2006 9:29 pm by noel
posted in firewall, internet, stuff

i decided to post interesting hits that my firewall gets every once in a while. this one is a distributed portscan and a decoy portscan. this went on for about an hour. i think someone’s trying to find open ports in the wall. or maybe a prelide to a dos attack. now why would someone [...]

new yahoo mail

Friday, 7 July 2006 10:38 am by noel
posted in e-mail, internet, software

i finally got a taste of the new yahoo mail web interface. it looks a lot like outlook/outlook express/eudora — like a real e-mail app — and the new interface is slicker than the old one. although there are a handful of “coming soon” features, the thing is very usable already. as of this writing, [...]