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Hotkeys for Google

by: Dennis Nazarenko Just select some text, press the corresponding key combination and the search results are in front of your eyes. This is what the new free program Hotkey Search Tool can do for you. An advanced Internet user searches from 8 to 30 times a day. In the case of specialized search systems, such as on-line translators, dictionaries, and references, this value increases and totals from 10 to 60 requests a day. Often, you had to start the browser and enter the search phrase to get the search results. But if the text is already typed, why should you have to type it again? Suppose you want to search an encyclopedia for some unknown word or find the site of some product by its name. All you need to do is just select the text and send a command to Hotkey Search Tool. The program will copy the selected text to the clipboard and open the browser with the search results. If you do not select any text, the program will select the string typed before you pressed the ...

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Introduction To Policy Routing

by: Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933 Policy routing is a major topic on your BSCI exam, and you'll find quite a bit of policy routing going on in today's production networks. But what exactly is policy routing? Policy-based routing, generally referred to as "policy routing", is the use of route maps to determine the path a packet will take to get to its final destination. As you progress through your CCNP studies and go on to the CCIE (or to a Cisco Quality Of Service certification), you'll find that traffic can be "marked" by policy routing in order to give different levels of service to various classes of traffic. (This is done by marking the traffic and placing the different classes of traffic in different queues in the router, allowing the administrator to give some traffic higher priority for transmission.) There are some basic policy routing rules you should know: Policy routing doesn't affect the destination of the packet, but does affect the path...

Using SMTP to Fake Mails

SMTP stands for simple mail transfer protocol. It is a simple protocol based on exchange of commands. There are lots of commands supported, you can view a list here . The first command used in SMTP is the HELO or EHLO (extended hello). This a way of greeting the server. The server will reply back with some form of greeting. You can use SMTP to send fake mails read on at... http://www.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper/How_to_Send_Fake_Mail_Using_SMTP_Servers.html