Category Archives: Internet

Network Manager and University of Exeter VPN

So, at home currently rather than at university, this poses a problem when trying to connect to some resources, such as internal machines and private resources. I know Network Manager in Ubuntu has VPN support but I had never tried … Continue reading

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Speed Testing Tool

I came across this fabulous Internet speed testing tool called: Speedtest.net. Best I have seen, okay the flash use is a little over the top but it works well.

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Folding@Home

I have been meaning to contribute to the Folding@Home project once again, sadly there are no packages for Debian or Ubuntu. I set about rectifying this, you can build my package from the source available here: <http://svn.cs278.org/~chris/packages/fah/trunk/>.

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Pirate

Click below to watch.

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Sun’s Blackbox

Sweet Mother of all semi-conductors! Linky … RRP?

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Securing Firefox DNS Lookups

It always amazes me what nice features can be found in about:config, such as sending DNS requests to a SOCK’s proxy.

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