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Archive for July, 2006

SpiceWorks – IT Mgmt Software

Posted by penrod on July 31st, 2006

An interesting concept. Server and System Mgmt software that is “Advertisement” based. Free to use, but it has a column of google ads on the right hand side.

Got it running in my lab. Looks half decent. Take a look…

Leave your wireless network wide open?

Posted by penrod on July 29th, 2006

It looks like more people are starting to use this as a court defense when they are gone after by the RIAA. If the network is wide open, it cannot be proven who was actually doing the downloading. Interesting defense,…

Vyatta Open Source Flexible Router

Posted by penrod on July 28th, 2006

Ok, the goal of this software is to provide a linux based router platform that would rival a Cisco or Juniper commercial router. I like it so far. It supports protocols such as OSPF and BGP. And has a straight…

Sweetwater Brewery

Posted by penrod on July 27th, 2006

Found out that this Atlanta local brewery has a facility tour three days a week. Neat place. And the beer kicks ass also. Try it out if you get a chance.

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SD Memory Chip with Integrated USB Port

Posted by penrod on July 26th, 2006

SanDisk has today announced a unique SD card which has a hinged portion, flip this over and the card becomes a USB 2.0 Flash Drive. This neat piece of engineering means that you can flip the card out of your…

Skype Encryption Cracked?

Posted by penrod on July 14th, 2006


Looks like there is a Chinese company that claims they have reverse engineered the Skype protocol. Check out this link for more info…

(Click Here)

July 11th offically marks the end of technical support (by Microsoft) of Windows 98 and ME.  It is the offiical end of lifecycle for these two products.

According to IDC figures, there are an estimated…

Celestia

Posted by penrod on July 9th, 2006

A free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Not a bad piece of software if you ask me…

Swap your BIOS out for a linux boot?

Posted by penrod on July 4th, 2006

LinuxBIOS is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the normal BIOS with a little bit of hardware initialization and a compressed Linux kernel that can be booted from a cold start.

www.linuxbios.org

Ophcrack

Posted by penrod on July 3rd, 2006

A Windows password cracker based on the faster time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is an evolution of the original Ophcrack 1.0 developed at EPFL. Ophrack 2.2 comes with a GTK+ Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows…