Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D.The Computer Networking Journey — IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) is the major standard development organization for the Internet. It was founded in 1986, since…7h ago7h ago
Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D.The Networking Journey — Packet SwitchingAs opposed to “Circuit Switching” (https://medium.com/@boutnaru/the-networking-journey-circuit-switching-bc628e8cf034) “Packet Switching”…1d ago1d ago
Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D.The Networking Journey — Circuit SwitchingIn “Circuit Switching” a connection is established between the source and the destination before data is transferred. Thus, dedicated…2d ago2d ago
Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D.The Windows Forensic Journey — “OpenSaveMRU” (Open and Save Most Recently Used)The goal of the “OpenSaveMRU” registry key is to track files that have been accessed using the “Open” or “Save As” common dialog box in…3d ago3d ago
Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D.The Networking Journey — WAN (Wide Area Network)WAN (aka Wide Area Network) is a collection of LANs (https://medium.com/@boutnaru/the-nlan-local-area-network-18b3bf4b51d8) or other…3d ago3d ago
Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D.The Networking Journey — PAN (Personal Area Network)PAN (aka Personal Area Network) is a network that connects electronic devices which are close to the user. We can take as an example a…4d ago4d ago
Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D.The Networking Journey — Star TopologyIn a star topology every device on the network is connected to a central device. As opposed to a mesh topology in which every device on…5d ago5d ago
Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D.The Windows Process Journey — “bitsadmin.exe” (BITS administration utility)“bitadmin.exe” is a binary PE file located at “%windir%\system32\bitsadmin.exe”. It is used in order to create download/upload jobs while…Aug 12Aug 12
Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D.The Linux Concept Journey — Block Device FileAs we know the philosophy of Linux is that “Everything is a file”. However, not all files are created equally. A block device file is one…Aug 11Aug 11
Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D.The Linux Process Journey — “ata_sff” (Advanced Technology Attachment Small Form Factor)“ata_sff” is a Linux kernel thread which is based on a workqueue…Aug 10Aug 10