Pharos GPS-500 GPS Receiver
Posted by penrod on April 16th, 2008A good article with info on how to get the Pharos GPS-500 receiver to work with Linux and specifically BackTrack.
Archive for April, 2008
Xobni – Inbox Spelled Backwards
Posted by penrod on April 16th, 2008Ok, it’s rare that I see software that makes me really go “wow”. This one does it. This is a plugin for Outlook that puts a new twist on how you handle your email.
Update: I uninstalled this software.…
SRI Malware Threat Center
Posted by penrod on April 15th, 2008A new site recently off the ground. The Malware Threat Center is a community service Internet site that is built using data produced from the Cyber-TA Honeynet Project (www.cyber-ta.org/Honeynet), hosted at SRI International. SRI International is a non-profit research institute.
Linux Flyback – Linux’s answer to Apple’s Time Machine
Posted by penrod on April 14th, 2008If you are familliar with Apple’s time machine backup system and you run linux, then this is the application for you.
http://flyback-project.org/
See Carlton’s Link for as much detail as you can ever handle.
(Click Here)
How to dump a text file to a remote syslog server.
Note: This is posted here because my brain will forget it.
save this to /usr/local/bin/remotenetlog
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::Syslog;
my $s=new Net::Syslog(Facility=>'local4',Priority=>'debug', SyslogHost=>'remote.syslogserver.ip');
while($line=){
$line=~s/\n|\r//g;
Hubble: Monitoring Internet Reachability in Real-Time
Posted by penrod on April 9th, 2008From their website…
“Hubble is a system that operates continuously to find persistent Internet black holes as they occur. Hubble has operated continuously since September 17, 2007. During that time, it identified 883,019 black holes and reachability problems.…
No security software? Money gone from your bank? You’re liable (in Britian)!
Posted by penrod on April 9th, 2008The “British Banking Code” which is written and produced by the British Banker’s Association (BBA) has stated that you can be held liable for losses to your bank accounts if you have not gone through reasonable efforts to secure your…