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As I heard a lot about NetBSD lately, especially with NetBSD5.0 being released, I thought I would give it a try.

I admit, I had a preconceived idea of what I was going to face. I thought I would have to go a couple of time through the installer, try to understand how to use the partitioner, etc. But I was wrong. Ten minutes after booting up the iso image, my first NetBSD was up and running!

Even though all this documentation is available in the NetBSD guide, here are all the steps I went through to install my machine.

My installation was done using kvm-84 on a debian (testing) machine.

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Hello, it’s me again!

Dans un tout autre contexte, je vous propose d’élaborer un exemple d’insécurité informatique sur les machines Windows (XP ou Vista) qui sont branchées sur Internet.

Il y a quelques jours, des chercheurs de l’université de UC Santa Barbara, ont publié un rapport résumant la méthode de prise de contrôle d’un Botnet appelé TORPIG.

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