Ports-Services is a useful service to identify what might be listening on a particular port or what port should particular (well-known) service listen to.
It has some java related ports (RMI, Jini).
It also has trojan listings for the ports and it is a bit scary to see the useful service entries completely overshadowed by the huge number of various malware.
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Dana Nourie lists 10 presentations in tools space that she thinks are worth seeing at JavaOne 2006. My own presentation is there as well (number 7). Guess it struck the chord.
I also have 240+ people booked for my session as of now. No way to tell if that is many or not enough for this stage. But if any of those 240+ are reading this blog, are there any questions on what you would like to know about?
Ethereal is a tool I always use when I have any kind of network related problems. Be it a firewall dropping packets, a server that incorrectly sets cookies or even an overly clever application that tries to obscure the exact network resources it uses. Ethereal collects that network data all the way up and down the network stack and all the way into file formats, such as GIFs and XML. And it allows to filter on any of the fields it understand.
Guy Kawasaki writes about the art of customer service. While all of the points are applicable, he did not take the one about integrating customer service into the mainstream far enough.
He talks that customer service people receiving accolades as much as sales, engineering and marketing. That’s great. But what about actively helping them to do their jobs better. Sales have fancy tools to track customers’ pipelines, marketing get party budgets, engineers get multiple-monitors and fancy tech toys.
One of my conversations was commented on by Dr Anton Chuvakin. I had replied to him in his comments, but unfortunately he keeps reposting the article to new services without bothering to address the reply, so I am putting it here as a central reference.
Basically, Anton (if I may call him this) thinks that the universe of choices around log file discussion is not just
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