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Ranting about Metasploit…
I want to preface this with the fact that I have an big respect for HDM and his colleagues, both because of technical achievements and for creating this framework in the open, with an enthusiastic community around it. However… 🙂 Some time ago I played around a little with Metasploit for the latest Ethical Hacker…
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An interesting Windows feature
This one has been around for ever (possibly since Windows ’95), but it just so happens that I stumbled over it recently: You can use the “desktop.ini” file to (amongst other things) change the name displayed for the given folder by Explorer (and other file-navigators which are based on Explorer – like Windows Total Commander…
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A blue LED
A small LED, a dark room and a crappy camera 🙂
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Mixed links
The CPAN testers site received an update. This is a great resource for Perl programmers all over the world which automatically tests CPAN modules in different environments. The Ethical Hacker Network posted the solution to the Daemon challenge. Interesting, but as expected, you’d had to own the book to get this one… From the MS…
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Short tip
PsExec doesn’t seem to work with “Simple File Sharing” under Windows XP, so you might want to try to turn it off if it fails on you.
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A good post about document metadata
Read it, love it: GCIH Gold Paper – Document Metadata, the Silent Killer.
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Pidgin (Gaim) needs your support!
The author of the free, open-source multi-protocol IM client Pidgin (formerly known as Gaim – OS X users might know it at Adium) have put up a survey. From the announcement: 2008 has been a slightly unusual year for the Pidgin chat client. Improvements were made, but the biggest news was caused by unhappy users.…
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(Re-)dial your connection automatically with Windows (XP)
Currently I’m on a quest of finding configuration options to make computers easier to use. One of my recent problems was how to make sure that internet connections “just work”, especially in a dial-up kind of situation (where there are usernames and passwords involved). Here is the method that I developed for Windows XP (probably…
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Booting FreeDOS with GRUB
To toy around, I decided to install FreeDOS on a real system running Ubuntu. This post will document the process of adding an entry to the GRUB menu loader to boot it. Some small notes: Resizing partitions with GPartEd is somewhat funky (no global progress bar) and can take some serious time (if you are…
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Anycast DNS and BGP
From /dev/random: Introduction to BGP. Also, some short videos on various networking topics from Infoblox.