http://simonwillison.net/2009-07-16T19:40:10+00:00Simon Willison2009-07-16T19:40:10+00:002009-07-16T19:40:10+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/16/nmap5/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://nmap.org/5/">Nmap 5.00 Release Notes</a></strong></p> Released today, “the most important Nmap release since 1997”. New features include Ncat, a powerful netcat alternative, Ndiff, a utility for comparing scan results so you can spot changes to your network, and a new Nmap Scripting Engine using Lua. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lua">lua</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ncat">ncat</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ndiff">ndiff</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/netcat">netcat</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nmap">nmap</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/releases">releases</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tools">tools</a></p>

2009-01-08T19:04:24+00:002009-01-08T19:04:24+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/8/irc/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.metabrew.com/article/how-we-use-irc-at-lastfm/">How we use IRC at Last.fm</a></strong></p> With IRCCat, an elegant Java IRC bot that accepts Twitter-like messages to a network port (generally sent using netcat) and directs them to a user or channel. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/irc">irc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/irccat">irccat</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/java">java</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nc">nc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/netcat">netcat</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/richard-jones">richard-jones</a></p>