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SOCAT - The most comprehensive networking utility

I am faced with having to scan for viruses in my spam control product SpamCheetah and socat did something that no other tool could. In addition to scanning for virus on a pipe, I can do so much more like content inspection in a very loose sense, adding a trailer advertising my product and so on. ..

Networking 8/2/2010 Girish Venkatachalam

A Tale of Two Routers

A customer has a branch office store. Originally, back in the mists of history, a T1 line connected the two stores telephone systems and provided some data transfer. I can vaguely remember tying into those data channels many years ago. That was just dumb terminals talking to the Unix box at the main store; we did it through Digiboard multiport serial boxes ..

Networking 6/17/2010 Tony Lawrence

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People who follow me on Twitter have probably noticed that I have been posting at HubPages. You might have wondered why. I answered that at HubPages itself with my Why I am using HubPages post, but I'll add a few notes here. ..

Web 6/4/2010 Tony Lawrence

Free iPad book

Free e-books are often barely worth the time and trouble it takes to download them. They are often just thinly veiled advertising vehicles promoting some other product ..

MacOSX 6/4/2010 Tony Lawrence

New iPad Books

Four new books from Take Control ..

MacOSX 6/3/2010 Tony Lawrence

Was this the impression you wanted?

A few weeks back I responded to some survey from Google and they sent me a $15.00 gift certificate as a "Thank You". I thought that was pretty generous as the survey probably took less than 20 minutes. Turns out I was wrong. It wasn't generous at all. Worse, it actually ended up ticking me off. ..

Employment 5/28/2010 Tony Lawrence

Kerio Connect 7.1 in Public Beta

I don't usually mention betas unless something important will be added. That's certainly the case with the 7.1 Beta because it adds long awaited support for BlackBerry devices. ..

Kerio 5/27/2010 Tony Lawrence

Simulate complex networks with qemu

This article will deal with what you need to do to setup qemu bridging so that you can run servers on your qemu instances. ..

Networking 5/26/2010 Girish Venkatachalam

Conky

I had to do server monitoring for one of my clients and I ended up using the sexy conky tool for it. But I had to do a lot of jugglery to make it work on the web. ..

Networking 5/25/2010 Girish Venkatachalam

Traveling with the iPad

Overall, an iPad is a great traveling companion. A laptop would have been much more difficult to use in the car, would not have had the battery life, and would have been heavier to lug along when we walked. Of course an iPhone or similar device gives some of the same advantages, but the larger screen of the iPad has advantages, particularly so when accessing my clients remotely. ..

MacOSX 5/24/2010 Tony Lawrence

Improving the iPad keyboard

I have been thinking more about the on-screen iPad keyboard and think I see a way it could be greatly improved.

First, the problem. Neither Apple nor app developers know what we need from a keyboard. We don't even know ourselves because our needs can vary even within the same application. I might use Notepad or SimpleNote to write a letter, a small Perl script or a hand crafted HTML page - my keyboard needs will be different within each. ..

MacOSX 5/19/2010 Tony Lawrence

iPad app file extensions

I have been using Dropbox to transfer files to my iPad. There are plenty of other options for that task, but I already use Dropbox anyway, which means that sometimes the file I want is sitting there even before I knew that I wanted it on the iPad. ..

MacOSX 5/18/2010 Tony Lawrence

iPad 3G

I haven't yet used much of the AT&T $15.00 iPad data plan and I'm beginning to think that the AT&T executive who opined that few iPad customers will use cellular plans might be right. ..

MacOSX 5/17/2010 Tony Lawrence

It's the overall experience that matters

I hope we have established that I am a genuine Apple iPad fan-boy, scornful of iPad detractors and thoroughly convinced that those who don't want an iPad are confused and sad creatures. ..

MacOSX 5/14/2010 Tony Lawrence

My iPad Senior Moments

I had two silly iPad problems over the weekend. The first was just a big "Duh!" on my part - I wanted to use iTunes and did not notice the app icon. Did I really need to go back to my computer just to use iTunes? That didn't seem to make sense. ..

MacOSX 5/10/2010 Tony Lawrence

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