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  • A very cool idea!

    I’ve been hearing a lot lately about a terminal emulator called “Terminator” for Linux, so I decided to give it a try. While looking at the authors site, I found the following posting: My new project: juicyD (maybe) The idea is simple, but has a stroke of genius in it: instead of burning CD’s, store…

  • All things come to an end

    I’ve woken up today to find that CastleCops is going offline (link from DISOG). From their website: Greetings Folks, You have arrived at the CastleCops website, which is currently offline. It has been our pleasure to investigate online crime and volunteer with our virtual family to assist with your computer needs and make the Internet…

  • If Wireshark complains about incorrect cheecksums…

    You most probably have TCP checksum offloading enabled in your NIC. You can disable it, just know that enabling/disabling it will probable reset your network stack (so don’t do it on remote system). PS. This is not always the case, I’ve seen the same error message on systems which didn’t have TCP checksum offloading (and…

  • Help wanted by SANS

    From the SANS blog: At SANS Internet Storm Center, we are always researching and monitoring the latest trends of attacks on the Internet. We are currently developing a web honeypot project similar to the Dshield model. The launch time is a few months away and the project is in need of volunteer researchers to help…

  • Join the World Community Grid!

    Via Userfriendly: join the World Community Grid and help save lives – effortlessly. Do I sound like a late-night TV commercial? Now with no added sugar! 🙂 All jokes aside: WCG is a cool community project which dedicates idle CPU time to things like cancer research. While I don’t recommend that you leave on computers…

  • If you don’t know English, …

    Scott Hanselman thinks that I’m linkbaiting. Just wanted to let everyone know, I stand 100% behind my affirmation that If you don’t know English you are not a programmer. I personally think that the following commenter (also cited in the blog) nailed it: It would *seem* (totally non-scientific sampling) that the non-English speakers (as a…

  • Fiddling with the comment system

    My friend Dan D. mentioned that the new inline commenting system wasn’t playing nice with NoScript. After a little looking into it I found that indeed, Blogger is using JS to render the form (why?). To reduce the pain a little I’ve added a link to the old method of leaving comments which should appear…

  • There goes nothing

    People, please stop the fear mongering. The F-Secure blog has a post titled There Goes WPA telling us how insecure WPA is now with Elcomsoft (great guys BTW) using the GPU to gain a factor 100 in the breaking speed and researchers breaking the TKIP part. What it fails to do is to point out…

  • Job offer from Nokia

    Some time back I was looking around in the job marked and, amongst other possibilities, I checked out Nokia. This meant that I got added to their mailing list (voluntarily). Today I received the following mail from them: When creating your profile at Nokia’s Career Site, you requested to be notified of job openings. The…

  • Surface mounted electronics

    I’ve landed on the Surface Mount Soldering 101 and my first thought was: this is really cool, I need to tell a friend of mine who as an ASUS WL-500gP wireless router and experienced some problems with the receiving part of it (he wanted to use the router as a repeater).