Archive for July, 2006
Posted in July 31st, 2006
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[Ram Sripracha] thought it was mighty odd that his new bluetooth Mighty Mouse had an LED that was constantly on when
the mouse wasn’t moving. He decided to pop the case open and see what the current draw was. When the mouse is moving
the LED is off and the current draw is ~.0285 amps; when the mouse has stopped the LED is on and the current draw is
~.0450 amps. He removed the LED to create a lower
power bluetooth Mighty Mouse that only uses .0017 amps when not moving. So, 3.8% of the power that was originally
consumed while sitting still.
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
It is a place where business people, coders, decision makers, entrepreneurs, artists, and policy makers using, creating, and managing free (libre) and open projects gather to learn about best practices, strategic issues, and coming changes. EuroOSCON will be filled to the brim with mindbending demos, provocative keynotes, hands-on practical tutorials, and lots of two-way interactivity. Open technology is at the core of the conference but the real fun starts as we look at the applications, interactions and ultimately the disruptions that open technology and communication will give rise to. Use discount code euos06hck9 and save 10% on the convention fees! http://conference.oreilly.com/eurooscon
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
It is a place where business people, coders, decision makers, entrepreneurs, artists, and policy makers using, creating, and managing free (libre) and open projects gather to learn about best practices, strategic issues, and coming changes. EuroOSCON will be filled to the brim with mindbending demos, provocative keynotes, hands-on practical tutorials, and lots of two-way interactivity. Open technology is at the core of the conference but the real fun starts as we look at the applications, interactions and ultimately the disruptions that open technology and communication will give rise to. Use discount code euos06hck9 and save 10% on the convention fees! http://conference.oreilly.com/eurooscon
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Just to let you all know, if you are using Wordpress you can upgrade today.
The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 2.0.4) is available.
his release contains several important security fixes, so it’s highly recommended for all users. We’ve …
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
ActiveX security faces storm before calm
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Netscape.com has been hacked via a persistent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in their newly launched Digg-like news service.
It seems the attacker did report the flaw to them repeatedly but they didn’t heed and ignored it, so he perfor…
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Just when I thought I had seen every cool way to DOS a computer, Rickard Liljeberg finds the coolest yet.
Apparently if you stick a cell phone near the CD-ROM of a Dell Optiplex GX520 and receive a SMS/text message, the machine will go into suspend mode!
Imagine the pranking possibilities.
If you read through the comments of the site, Richard states that a few folks from Dell have already viewed his page.
Quick link to the video is below, or p
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
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[Ito-Brazil] pointed out N-Labs simple current
limiter for stepper motors. A current limiting system will let you run stepper motors at higher speeds, with
greater torque and efficiency without overheating. This particular design is meant to improve upon the common L/R and
Chopper drivers. It can handle high voltages without using large resistors and is high performance without using
expensive ICs.
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Network Management With OpenNMS
OpenNMS is an opensource enterprise network management tool. It helps network administrators to monitor critical services on remote machines and collects the information of remote nodes by using SNMP. OpenNMS has a very active community, where you can register yourself to discuss your problems. Normally openNMS installation and configuration takes time, but I have tried to cover the installation and configuration part in a few steps.
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
LAMP On Ubuntu 6.06 For Noobs
I, like many others, made the decision to attempt an install of Ubuntu 6.06 server with the preconfigured LAMP option without having ever attempted using Linux before. My goal was to build a setup that I could host my personal web site from. [...] Hence, I am writing this as a partial documentation of my trials and tribulations with hopes of aiding all Linux noobs on the steps necessary to create a basic Linux, Apache2, MySQL5 and PHP5 system with FTP.
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
One persistent problem I used to face while using GNU/Linux was when I visited sites containing certain flash based games. The games played well but they never displayed the text embedded in it. I thought that it was a drawback of the flash player ver 7 provided for Linux. It never occurred to me to dig into the problem and find why it was happening so.
But recently, in the process of installing
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Posted in July 29th, 2006
Remember back when I posted a story about a Dell laptop self-destructing?
Well, it has happened again!
According to a story posted over at reghardware.co.uk and originally at Tom’s Hardware G
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Posted in July 29th, 2006
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[Mac Cody] wanted to add a digital compass to his robot. He thought the idea of the affordable Dinsmore 1490 digital
compass using 4bits to transmit 3bits of data was ridiculous. He decided to build his own
16 point digital compass instead. The
compass has four pairs of IRLEDs that reflect off of a gray code wheel. Each concentric track on the wheel represents 1
bit. He ran into some trouble when the compass magnets were being thrown off by the component leads. It just required a
bit of tweaking to get right. Mac isn’t sure that this is the most cost effective way to gain one more bit of
precision, but he did enjoy the experience and gained a greater appreciation for commercial units.
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Posted in July 29th, 2006
Psychedelics are supposed to destroy the ego, but they didn’t stop LSD pioneer Tim Leary, who never lost his penchant for self-promotion.
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Posted in July 29th, 2006
Linux Journal Contents #149, September 2006
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Posted in July 28th, 2006
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Reading [computerguru365]’s
infrared security camera
build you may wonder “Why did he build it like that?” Well, he was working with what he had. He disassembled a webcam
and removed the IR filter (sound
familiar?). He mounted it in a stripped power supply case with the zoom assembly pulled from an old camcorder. The
zoom control was wired to the back of the box. The final addition was an IR array to the front. You could probably buy
a better product off the shelf, but if you’ve already got the parts, why not…
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Posted in July 28th, 2006
I read a lot of security news articles every day, but this one had me double-checking every web browser on every one of my machines for javascript settings.
Why?
SPI Dynamics (the people that make WebInspect, a completely kick-ass applicaton web vulnerability scanner that I have in my toolkit) released a whitepaper today that describes this:
“Imagine visiting a blog on a social site like MySpace.com or che
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Posted in July 28th, 2006
Whether you’re a scientist, graphic artist, musician or movie executive, you can benefit from the speed and price of today’s high-performance Beowulf clusters.
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Posted in July 28th, 2006
Posted by Peter Thoeny on Jul 27
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Posted in July 28th, 2006
Posted by Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team on Jul 27
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Posted in July 27th, 2006
Since September you will find us in the US (B & amp;N stores). As usual we offer an in-depth look at both attack and defense techniques and concentrates on difficult technical issues. On the upcoming issue: Rootkits under Windows, Covert channel, Cryptography for mail and data, Simple Event Correlator, Linux backdoors, security tools and more… More details soon!
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Posted in July 27th, 2006
Since September you will find us in the US (B & amp;N stores). As usual we offer an in-depth look at both attack and defense techniques and concentrates on difficult technical issues. On the upcoming issue: Rootkits under Windows, Covert channel, Cryptography for mail and data, Simple Event Correlator, Linux backdoors, security tools and more… More details soon!
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Posted in July 27th, 2006
Thanks to Tinfoil Sheep for sending this my way.
What happens when you steal the wifi of someone skilled in ipchains, networking, DHCP and perl?
You get your world turned upside down.
This is so freaking clever I laughed out loud. The guy redirects all the traffic from the wifi thief through a proxy server that (using the magic of perl) turns all the images upside down!
Sample screenshot:
Do yourself a favor and check out this site –
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Posted in July 27th, 2006
After the dotcom doldrums of the past five years, there is a new wind blowing through the world of commercial software. It’s open source, but not as we know it. The first-generation start-ups like LinuxCare, TurboLinux and even Red Hat, were essentially service companies. Today, an increasingly-favored approach is to employ dual licensing to create two revenue streams: one based on providing services for free software and the other through traditional commercial licenses to products that are generally based on the free software version.
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Posted in July 27th, 2006
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[deniska] is working on a real-time GPS map viewing application. The application will determine the location using
this simple PSP GPS setup. Deniska modified the
connector on a $100 Holux GPS unit so that it could be read through the PSP remote port. A test program that works in
kernel mode is provided. Deniska notes that this will probably work with older (read: cheaper) Holux units as
well.
[thanks Will]
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Posted in July 27th, 2006
Posted by NSFOCUS Security Team on Jul 27
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Posted in July 27th, 2006
There was a time when installing Linux on one’s machine was a chore and involved opening up the case and collecting information about the various hardware components attached to the motherboard such as finding what chipset was used in a particular PCI card. I remember having to open the case and check the chipset used in my internal dial-up winmodem to get it to work in Linux. And I am happy
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