Technology

Cisco Announces CRS-3 322 Tbps Router

Published March 10, 2010 | By InetDaemon

Cisco announced their new CRS-3 router today. CRS stands for “Carrier Router System” and the new router, if it lives up to Cisco’s claims (and they usually d0, somehow), can forward 322 Terabits per second which is triple that of the CRS-1 at 92 Tbps. This is another in the line of ‘big fast routers’ used by telecommunications carriers that carry the bulk of the Internet traffic. These are the ‘backbone’ providers such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint etc.

http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2010/prod_030910.html

If you want one at home, pricing starts at $90,000.

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Yet Another Trojan

Published February 20, 2010 | By InetDaemon

Received a couple of e-mails with the following text:

FROM:   shipping@dhl.com
SUBJECT:  DHL Office. You need to get a parcel NR.xxxx

Dear customer!

The courier service was not able to deliver your parcel at your address.
Cause: Mistake in address
You may pickup the parcel at our post office personally.
The delivery advice is attached to this e-mail.
Print this label to get this package at our post office.
Please do not reply to this e-mail, it is an unmonitored mailbox!
Thank you,
DHL Services.

DHL will usually leave the package at your doorstep unless special instructions were provided or the package is insured (valuable).
If they can’t deliver, they leave a slip of paper at your door, as does UPS, FedEx and the postal service.
If someone flubbed the mailing address, and DHL can’t make sense of it, DHL will send it back to the point of origin (where it was mailed from).
If the address was mistaken and truely was from DHL, how could DHL possibly look me up by a mistaken address and get the right e-mail address, even if they DID have my e-mail (they don’t).
The e-mail address it was sent to is never used as an e-mail address, it is used as a ‘throwaway’ address so that spam sent to it goes in round-file 13 (trashcan).
Given the above, this can’t possibly have come from DHL.
A file is attached named “Facebook_password_xxxxx.zip”. If it is supposed to be ‘delivery advice’–why is the file named ‘Facebook Password’? The least these so-called hackers could have done is pay attention and got the lies straight.

ADVICE:

If you get an e-mail similar to this, don’t open the attachment, delete it unread.

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Recover Your License Keys

Published February 11, 2010 | By InetDaemon

MAGICAL JELLY BEAN KEYFINDER

FROM: Magical Jelly Bean Software
(http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/)
PRICE: FREE
SUPPORTED OS: SEE BELOW
RECOMMENDATION: Highly Recommended

Sometimes you have to recover the key to your Microsoft Windows OS, or your Windows Office install, or Photoshop etc. The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder extracts license keys for you. Even when you don’t, it’s a good idea to run this software, save the keys to a file, print the file and store it with your installation CD’s, just in case.

Jelly Bean will extract, from the registry:

Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista 7 license keys
Windows Servers 2000, 2003, 2008 license keys
Office XP, 2003, 2007 license keys
Even extracts license keys from the registry hive of any drive connected to the computer. Pull out the hard drive from a blown computer plug it into a working computer and recover the keys!
Save as .txt or .csv

Jelly Bean is free (as in free beer) and is open source and I highly recommend you download it, extract your keys to a file, print the file and store it somewhere safe with your installation CD’s, just in case.

I know, I know, I’ve warned you twice. But its that important.

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Frames, Datagrams, Packets, PDU’s – OH MY!

Published January 22, 2010 | By InetDaemon

What the heck is the difference between a packet, a frame,
a protocol data thingy and a datagram?

That’s easy. All of these things are terms for ‘chunks’ of communication data, but to use them correctly, you have to know where they are used.

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