links for 2009-01-30

• 1000 novels everyone must read | Books | guardian.co.uk
  1000 novels everyone must read
  (tags: lists books recommendations literature reading novels)

links for 2009-01-27

• SANS Institute – Malware FAQ: Microsoft PPTP VPN
  Initially this document covers, from a high level, various popular VPN technologies and implementations. This document then proceeds to delve into considerable depth about:

  * The implementation.
  * Lists several vulnerabilities in detail.
  * Demonstrates in detail 5 attacks on various versions of the most common of Microsoft's PPTP products, using free, readily available tools
  * Explains what each exploit is doing and how it works.
  * Brief comparison of MS PPTP to other VPN options available as alternative VPN options, such as other PPTP implementations, L2F, L2TP, IPSEC, IKE, SSH, CIPE, & IPIP.
  * Suggested options to decrease the vulnerabilities of using PPTP as a VPN solution.

  (tags: networking security microsoft 2009-01 2009 vpn pptp)

links for 2009-01-24

• foobar2000
  foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.
  (tags: windows tools utilities software opensource audio player 2009-01 sound)

links for 2009-01-07

• Storing Elektriciteit
  Er zijn verschillende soorten storingen. Het is daarom in geval van stroomuitval verstandig om te controleren of u de enige bent die storing heeft of dat de storing de hele buurt treft.
  Als uw buren ook geen elektriciteit hebben, dan betreft het een netwerkstoring. Belt u in dit geval het nationaal storingsnummer: 0800 – 9009 (gratis).
  (tags: vinkeveen 2009 209-01)

links for 2009-01-06

• Latency and JitterNetwork Performance Blog, Network Performance Management News, Tutorials, Resources – Network Performance Blog
  Network latency is the amount of time it takes for a packet to be transmitted end-to-end across a network and is composed of five variables:
  Network Latency = (Distance Delay) + (Serialization Delay) + (Queue Delay) + (Forwarding Delay) + (Protocol Delay)
  (tags: networking internetworking whitepaper delay rtd latency 2009-01 2009)