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I needed a list of websites of all the Fortune 500 from 2007 for my masters project. Unfortunately, Fortune wanted to charge me hundreds of dollars to get some fancy excel spreadsheet with much more information than I really needed. I suspect there are other people out there who might find this list useful, so [...]

I had trouble compiling packit today, a network auditing tool that allows one to define (spoof) nearly all TCP, UDP, ICMP, IP, ARP, RARP, and Ethernet header options to test firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, port scanning, simulating network traffic, and general TCP/IP auditing. I’m running OpenSUSE 10.1 and the compilation failed on a #include <net/bpf.h>. [...]

My masters project involves testing a large number of webservers. In order to test a large number of webservers I would obviously need a large list of them - at least 100,000. I got such a list by applying as a researcher with http://www.ircache.net. They offer (free for researchers, pay for others) trace files from [...]

Part of my masters project work involves using network measurement tools to garner information about a path to a website. One useful type of tool that I don’t believe is used that often is a bandwidth estimation tool. These type of tools employ one of a variety of methods to estimate the available bandwidth between [...]

After spending four months in India, London was a night and day difference. The air was not clean but rather was filled with the scent of western cologne. I can’t say I enjoyed it any more than the dung and garbage lots I found in India, but at least this scent was sanitary. In fact, [...]