Archive for the ‘Networks’ Category

Facebook, it’s time to say goodbye for me

Who owns my data in social networks? Who decides what is allowed to do with my data? My answer is still: It’s me! I remember that facebook tried to change the privacy terms last years without success in the first attempt. They tried to convince their users that nowadays we have a completely open society [...]

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Review: Sharetronix

Change of license with version 1.5 of sharetronix Sharetronix decided to switch from Affero GPL to their own license. They said that Sharetronix remains free for personal communities. See here. ———————————————- This review is based on version 1.4.2 of sharetronix No difference to version 1.4.1. ———————————————- This test is based on version 1.4.1 of sharetronix [...]

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Network Management of LAN,WAN,WLAN components

There are several reasons to decide to use a network management and monitoring system for your LAN, WAN, WLAN: Control the state of a bigger amount of infrastructure products You have a lot of client components There are important security aspects that have to be checked Maintenance of configurations, firmware versions etc. Control components that [...]

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Decentralized Semantic Microblogging

I found a real good article from Jeff Sayre about decentralized Semantic Microblogging. He describes a concept were you are the owner of your data and the microblogging service. I like that idea as it helps to avoid data silos and the requirement to sign up for different services to get in contact with all [...]

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WLAN Tools

If you have to design or troubleshoot an enterprise wireless LAN it might be helpful to have some software tools available. Here are some of my favorites: Find other systems or components and check if they have an influence on your WLAN wi-spy with chanalyzer software to analyze the frequency spectrum network stumbler to detect [...]

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