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AIX training
I am in El Segundo next to LAX at AIX training. luckily my employer sprung for a hotel so its a 5 minute drive or else it would have been a 2 1/2 hour gauntlet each way. This way its a vacation...
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Truncating Microsoft sql transaction logs
I rarely touch MS SQL but I have to administer 2 instances, so I have had to learn some of the administrative tasks that have to be done from time to time. One of the less obvious task is truncating...
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Iphone impressions
This weekend I was at the South Coast Plaza and stopped off at the Apple store to check out the much hyped Iphone. This was Sunday afternoon mind you and they had the phone in stock, so there was no...
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Synergy
I set up Synergy at work. I now have 4 monitors and 3 computers all using 1 keyboard and mouse. Synergy lets you move the mouse off the edge of one screen and it shows up on the screen of the next...
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Electronic voting reform
I live in California where the Secretary of State Debra Bowen has allowed The University of California to test the E-Voting systems used in here in California. What they found was that all of them are...
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Divx support to be added to the xbox 360
Finally the one feature I have been waiting for. It looks like on Dec 4th the new dashboard update finally adds divx and xvid support to the 360. No more trans coding! Hopefully it will support full...
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Linux Cisco VPN
The Linux Cisco VPN client seems to try the first avalable interface to make a connection. In my case this was eth0 which is my wired port which isn’t connected to anything. In order to get it to work...
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Roku Netflix Player
There has been some buzz about the Roku netflix player releasing some of its source code. The thing is they have to release the code as its GPL open source code that they modified. The truth is the...
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Getting ride of volumen group that doesn't exsist in linux
I was setting up a test VM with 4 one TB SAN LUNS. After successfully creating and testing the VMware image I blew it away without touching the LVM. After greating the production image I tried to add...
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Konboot
I am playing around with konboot after first hearing about it on the Hak5 podcast. If you haven’t heard about it, it is a boot disk you can create on a floppy, CD or USB drive (see Irongeek’s site for...
View ArticleCompiling Apache
One of my least favorite things to do is compiling apache. All the different modules are always a pain to get working. Webdav, modssl, php with gd curl fdftk pdflib etc, mod perl, etc. Unfortuantly I...
View Articlemdid Mysql authentication
Mdid mysql authentication is finished, it is a dirty dirty dirty hack, but it works. Had to chop it into active directory authentication method since mdid does not support two different methods at the...
View ArticleSnort IDS
I am redoing the IDS system at work. The current IDS uses snort and BASE. Base just isn’t able to keep up under the current load. We got a new quad core server with 4 gigs of ram that should do...
View ArticleNew Combinator Password Cracking Methods
While doing a security assessment a password hash was recovered using responder.py, we then attempted to crack the hash using Hashcat and the hate_crack script and failed to recover this hash. We were...
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