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Ports and Encapsulation – A brief Intro.

Ports Both TCP and UDP use ports to exchange information with applications. A port is an extension of an address, similar to adding an apartment or room number to a street address. A letter with a street address will arrive at the correct apartment building, but without the apartment number, it will not be delivered to the correct [...]

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Mac OSX – Find Applications Using Network Resources

This isn’t much of a hack. In fact its more or less completely irrelevant to my sites main genre of things. Either way I decided to post about it to share my evenings experience. I ran into an issue this evening with hidden applications running on my network that were slowing me down. I noticed something [...]

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