Cat 5 Termination
Posted by penrod on November 24th, 2008A friend of mine asked me to post these. A quick reference of sorts…
Archive for November, 2008
Find your DRM crippled music on iTunes / OSX
Posted by penrod on November 23rd, 2008mdfind kMDItemContentType == com.apple.protected-mpeg-4-audio
The above commend will show you which of your itunes music is DRM “enabled”.
Password Scrambler
Posted by penrod on November 18th, 2008Password Scrambler is a browser add-on that allows you to automatically generate secure, hard-to-guess passwords for every site you visit, based on a master password of your choice. It achieves this by uniquely “scrambling” your password for every site you…
Blu-Ray – AACS and BD+ encryption woes…
Posted by penrod on November 18th, 2008Chinese pirates crack Blu-ray DRM, sell pirated HD discs
The pirates are apparently ripping high-def movies (cracking Blu-ray’s AACS and BD+ encryption in the process) and re-encoding them using AVCHD, which offers a 720p picture.
See the full article over…
Malware Bytes (www.malwarebytes.org)
Posted by penrod on November 17th, 2008I’ve not tested this software out yet, but it was recommended to me as a good way to clean “rogue ware” off of your Windows machine.
NoScript Plugin for Firefox
Posted by penrod on November 10th, 2008From Wikipedia…
Clickjacking[1][2][3] is a malicious technique of tricking web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous web pages.[4] A vulnerability across a variety of browsers and platforms, a clickjacking…
Ubuntu 8.10 does not support “legacy” nvidia drivers…
Posted by penrod on November 8th, 2008Something to be aware of if you are upgrading to 8.10….
From: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810
nVidia “legacy” video support
The 71 and 96 series of proprietary nVidia drivers, as provided by the nvidia-glx-legacy and nvidia-glx packages in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, are…
Windows Disk Partition / Formating Cheat Sheet
Posted by penrod on November 6th, 2008A great chart on the differences between FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS AND NTFS5.
(Yeah, I didnt know that NTFS5 existed either…)
Click on the image…
TimeVault – GNOME Backup/Snapshot System
Posted by penrod on November 4th, 2008TimeVault is a simple front-end for making snapshots of a set of directories. Snapshots are a copy of a directory structure or file at a certain point in time. Restore functionality is integrated into Nautilus – previous versions of a…
NSA – Security Configuration Guides
Posted by penrod on November 4th, 2008Well, back on August 7th 2008, I had a link to the FBI. So, why not follow it up with a link to the NSA today. All the free cool aid you can drink. 
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