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Entries from September 2009

Squid: Intercept traffic

September 27th, 2009 · No Comments

I was bored this weekend, so after finding some YouTube traffic occurring from one of the PCs on the network, I decided that I’d play with Squid, which is a very powerful, and flexible proxy server.
It has many different methods of operation, and can be used in different ways, such as a simple proxy, where [...]

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Tags: Linux · Networking

How do VoIP calls work?

September 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I was looking at something related to this, this week, and it occurred to me when I was, that most just have no idea, they might think the dial tone generated by the ATA comes from the VoIP provider for example.
So, How does VoIP work?
Setting up an outbound call
Your ATA is registered to the VoIP [...]

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Tags: VoIP

Vote #1 – Fucking Kevin Rudd

September 20th, 2009 · No Comments

I was lurking through “In The News” on whirlpool, which is what I normally do when I can’t find something fun or interesting to fill time, and aside from putting my 25c worth into the ‘poor is poorer’ thread, I found this little item of news from the distributor of all that isn’t newsworthy, news.com.au.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26097791-5007133,00.html
The [...]

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Tags: Random