How To: Mitigate Mozilla Firefox HTML5 Video Performance Issues
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A neat feature of the modern web is that Adobe Flash Player is (finally) starting to be replaced by HTML5 apps, and that includes video playback such as YouTube. During…
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How To: Redirect HTTP Traffic to Proxy Using iptables
Proxy Madness Using Squid or any other proxy for transparent caching/filtering of HTTP traffic has many benefits, being for logging purposes or the aforementioned use-cases, keeping every client configured can…
How To: Netcat – Check for open ports with the command line
Kitty Port-checking When troubleshooting a network integration or any other connection issue in Linux, step one is usually a matter of checking to see if the network port on the…
Client side Security, How’s My SSL? (.com)
Years ago, Moxie Marlinspike taught us that web-browser hints such as a “lock icon” in the address bar, didn’t guarantee ciphered communication. Since the website you are visiting still happily…
How To: List what Procs are using the Lib in Linux
Find the Procs After upgrading an important package in Linux -or other Unix variant- that provides a library used by many other processes. Instead of restarting the server for the…