Twitter blocked in Turkey, but there are solutions to route around this censorship.

As written in this posting: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1003709/pg1. The Turkish government has just banned Twitter access on their Internet. This is another step towards government censorship and control of the Internet. This is not a good move by the Turkish government. This will lead to users with technical knowledge to use TOR to tunnel through the censorship … Read more

Installing Ubuntu Server on a HP BL35p Blade Server and how to connect Ubuntu to a DNS Server.

I have been experimenting with the installation of Ubuntu Server onto a HP BL35P blade server and the process has been quite a learning experience indeed. The need to use the HP SmartStart CD to erase the RAID array on the server before the installation is different from your run of the mill desktop machine … Read more

Magazines now available in the Ubuntu 12.10 dash search results.

The Ubuntu 12.10 dash now has magazines appearing in the online search results as well as the usual music albums and application packages available for download. This is a good thing if you are interested in purchasing a magazine and downloading it. I assume that the magazines are PDF copies that you pay for and … Read more

Converting IP addresses from decimal to binary with pen and paper. The old fashioned way.

One important skill in computer networking is converting an IP address to binary from decimal. Here is an example. 172.124.64.2 This IP address converts into this binary number. 10101100.01111100.01000000.00000010 The way I find is the easiest with pen and paper is to write down this number sequence. 128 – 64 – 32 – 16 – … Read more