We just rolled out a new site search feature at DS, using Apache Solr as the search backend. We are making use of several of it’s more resource intensive features, including faceting (on a bunch of fields) and the dismax query parser.
It brings me an immense amount of pleasure to see that someone has de-obfuscated and reverse-engineered skype [PDF]. It describes how to detect and block skype traffic, in addition to how to find and screw with the network control elements. We can only hope that someone takes this a step further, and writes bridges between the skype network and real VOIP networks.
This is pretty amazing, if you are a vi user.
This appears to be a pretty good article about using rsync to backup your data, starting out with simple mirroring and moving into regular daily “snapshots”
Here is a seemingly-comprehensive list of default passwords for various pieces of networking equipment, printers, etc.