Tom blogged about NetVibes, a portal, rss reader, gmail displaying site. It’s pretty excellent and only takes moments to customise to display the RSS feeds of your choice. It also knows that there’s a Reading in Berkshire, UK rather than offering me the forecast for somewhere else.
Now to see if I actually use it, or just stick with a blank home page.
Following on from Fyodor’s co-authoring a book (along with FX, Joe Grand, Jay Beale, Kevin Mitnick) last year, Brian Hatch has now written co-authored a sequel and is making it available for free on the insecure.org site.
Interesting read, covering discusses Nmap, Ethereal, packet crafting, port knocking, filesystem encryption, SSL MITM attacks, kernel module hacking and more.
Katya is taking picture in Houston, and recording some very special, different images of the whole Katrina disaster. Here’s her photo stream on Flickr – fantastic.
You would think that the US administration has it’s hands full at the moment, but no.
Breaking: Condi Rice Spends Salary on Shoes : Gawker
Just moments ago at the Ferragamo on 5th Avenue, Condoleeza Rice was seen spending several thousands of dollars on some nice, new shoes (we’ve confirmed this, so her new heels will surely get coverage from the WaPo’s Robin Givhan). A fellow shopper, unable to fathom the absurdity of Rice’s timing, went up to the Secretary and reportedly shouted, “How dare you shop for shoes while thousands are dying and homeless!” Never one to have her fashion choices questioned, Rice had security PHYSICALLY REMOVE the woman.
You’ve got to love these people.
Well, I finally got there. A few hiccups on the way. Beta3 had a funny bug that made the USB keyboard and key useless. I had to drag out a PS/2 keyboard to modprobe the uhci and ehci modules to get them working. The bugger was that the network was also dead due to another bug, so I couldn’t SSH into the machine to do this.
Did an update to opensuse 10 B4 and all is well. Sound came back, NX server is still running, mouse and keyboard doing their thing and even Doom 3 is working after I reinstalled the nvidia driver. Pretty good.
I managed to do my expenses today remotely, by NXing into my home PC, and from there, NXing to Jude’s WinXP machine to open an IE6 browser session to our intranet to access the IE only expenses application. Talk about jumping through hoops to get a simple thing done, but it only takes 30 seconds per connection, so…
Bad Behavior has blocked 1370 access attempts in the last 7 days.
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