Squid is a proxy server and web cache daemon. It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, to aiding security by filtering traffic. Although primarily used for HTTP and FTP, Squid includes limited support for several other protocols including TLS, SSL, Internet Gopher and HTTPS. The development version of Squid (3.1) includes IPv6 and ICAP support.
Squid has been developed for many years. Early work …

New IPv6 Training Lab Is Part of European Union Initiative
SOFIA, Bulgaria - March 12, 2008 - Cisco® and the Bulgarian State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (DAITS) today announced the opening of Southeast Europe’s first lab for training and research in Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The lab’s networking and communication equipment is being donated by Cisco.
Located in the Bulgarian capital city of Sofia, this is Europe’s second IPv6 lab, after the one operated by RENATER, the French national research network in Paris. The laboratories will be interconnected to …

Over half of million people visited Malaysiakini on election night last Saturday as the results were announced.
The traffic was so high at 11pm, that the ‘Malaysiakini.com’ domain was blocked by the company in United States which hosts the website’s domain name.
“We were well prepared for the anticipated traffic despite that Malaysiakini was made free. We put in additional servers, stripped down our page to make it lighter and faster to download and we have six mirror sites …

Not many of us intentionally leave our cars unlocked or the front of our homes open to strangers. But we often leave our computers wide open to anyone and everyone that may want to snoop.
To get and keep our computers safe from hackers,or anyone wanting to have a look in our computers,we need the aid and assistance of something commonly called Firewalls.
A Firewall can be hardware or software that acts as a gatekeeper to your computer. It does this by monitoring all internet traffic coming in and going out of …

Barracuda Networks Defends the Use of Free and Open Source ClamAV Software for Internet Security
Campbell, Calif., Jan. 29, 2008 – Barracuda Networks Inc., the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, today announced it plans to defend itself, the open source community and the free and open source Clam AntiVirus software from a patent threat by Trend Micro. Barracuda Networks’ decision to take action comes after repeated requests from Trend Micro demanding Barracuda Networks remove ClamAV from its products or pay a patent license fee.
“Trend Micro’s actions illustrate …

 
When people hear or read the word “proxy” their minds start to wander and the look on their faces change, may consider such words to be too geeky to enter the common language, the fact is that the word is not self explanatory that’s why it is necessary to explain the meaning and functions of such systems, you will soon learn that they are very handy.
As shown by the online etymology dictionary the word proxy comes from the term prokecye, which means “agency of one who acts instead of …

Load balancing is the even distribution of computer processing and communication activities so that a server is not overwhelmed. Load balancing is especially important for networks where it is difficult to predict the number of requests that will be issued to a server.
Busy Web sites typically employ two or more Web servers in a load-balancing scheme. If one server starts to get swamped, requests are forwarded to another server with more capacity. Load balancing is therefore a service that is employed on more sophisticated site deployments.
Most service providers that offer …

What about electronic gadgets as gifts, well, you can think about it for minutes. For all occasions the electronic gifts will make difference feeling for your gift receiver, I will provide you some great ideas for your next gift, It will be the coolest one you have given.
Mp3 sunglasses, the perfect one for the active life style people, It will let you enjoying your favorite music during you ordinary day, they have a high technology built-in mp3 player. In addition to the mp3 player option you will have a perfect …

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BYO Linux 1.0 Text Version
(c) 2000, 2001 Jonathan Thorpe
Email: jon@byolinux.org
This document/howto contains precise instructions of how to Build Your Own Linux personalized distribution. A HTML and Printer friendly HTML as well as other BYO Linux Internet content may be found at: http://www.byolinux.org
Contents:

Packages required for BYO Linux
Making space
Writing Lilo.conf
Folders and files
SysVinit install
Bash install
Compiling Statically
Glibc install
Kernel install
GCC 2.95.2 Install
A few necessities
Dynamic install
Boot scripts

1)BYO LINUX: PACKAGES
In order for you to start your own Linux OS, you will have to download the Required Packages for a basic Linux system. You will also require the …