New wireless router block some sites, oh it is blocking microsoft.com

I initiated a thread in my facebook defend hackers group for seeking a help to resolve my issue:   I was using a ADSL broadband connection from India's largest ISP - BSNL. I was using an ancient modem/router to connect to Internet - Pronet PN-ADSL 101E/U: As you can see below it has only one RJ45 out. So I was able to connect only one PC at a time. And currently I have two desktops and a laptop. So it was really headache to wait till my dad or brother accessing Internet on other PC. So I decided to buy a new one. I went for a ADSL-less wireless router, since I wanted to ensure that the new one will work with cable net too...

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Cracking With Cloud Amazon

, Amazon EC2 is providing what they call “Cluster GPU Instances”:  An instance in the Amazon cloud that provides you with the power of two NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs. The exact specifications look like this: 22 GB of memory33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” architecture)2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs1690 GB of instance storage64-bit platformI/O Performance: Very High (10 Gigabit Ethernet)API name: cg1.4xlarge GPUs are known to be the best hardware accelerator for cracking passwords, so I decided to give it a try: How fast can this instance type be used to crack SHA1 hashes? Using the CUDA-Multiforce, I was able to crack all hashes from this file with a password length...

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