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Linux1394: sbp Module

Linux1394: sbp Module: "sbp2_serialize_io
Serialize all I/O coming down from the scsi drivers. (0 = deserialized, 1 = serialized, default = 0)
Turn on serialization for debugging, for some buggy SBP-2 devices (or bug in sbp2?), or to work around new problems in new sbp2 revisions."

- posted by Gp @ 1:13 PM

net4521

net4521: "Soekris Engineering net4521

This compact, low-power, low-cost, advanced communication computer is based on a 133 Mhz 486 class processor. It has two 10/100 Mbit ethernet ports, up to 64 Mbyte SDRAM main memory and uses a CompactFlash module for program and data storage. It can be expanded using a MiniPCI type III board and up to two PC-Card/Cardbus adapters.

It has been optimized for use as wireless router using PC-Card wireless adapters, but has the flexibility to take on a whole range of different functions as a communication appliance. The board is designed for long life and low power.

It will be available in any volume in the standard version, and as board only or with a small metal box and various power supplies. The board can be customized according to requirements when ordering higher volume.

Please note that the available standard case has cutouts for two RP-TNC Jacks for the external antennas, but does not include the connectors and cables. Also, the standard transformer available from soekris is a regular wall mount type, it is not a PoE type."

- posted by Gp @ 2:02 AM

net4521

net4521: "Soekris Engineering net4521

This compact, low-power, low-cost, advanced communication computer is based on a 133 Mhz 486 class processor. It has two 10/100 Mbit ethernet ports, up to 64 Mbyte SDRAM main memory and uses a CompactFlash module for program and data storage. It can be expanded using a MiniPCI type III board and up to two PC-Card/Cardbus adapters.

It has been optimized for use as wireless router using PC-Card wireless adapters, but has the flexibility to take on a whole range of different functions as a communication appliance. The board is designed for long life and low power.

It will be available in any volume in the standard version, and as board only or with a small metal box and various power supplies. The board can be customized according to requirements when ordering higher volume.

Please note that the available standard case has cutouts for two RP-TNC Jacks for the external antennas, but does not include the connectors and cables. Also, the standard transformer available from soekris is a regular wall mount type, it is not a PoE type."

- posted by Gp @ 2:02 AM

VideoHelp.com - Tools - DVDFab Decrypter

VideoHelp.com - Tools - DVDFab Decrypter: "DVDFab Decrypter is a simple version of DVDFab Express. It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, Macrovision, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying. "

- posted by Gp @ 3:11 PM

doc:plf - Documentation Ubuntu Francophone

doc:plf - Documentation Ubuntu Francophone: "Welcome to the wiki page of Ubuntu PLF. The Penguin Liberation Front is a team that builds litigious packages, (packages that are patent encumbered or proprietary.) The PLF has been providing litigious packages for Mandriva for many years. Currently the team is doing the same thing for Ubuntu."

- posted by Gp @ 3:07 PM

WoW Druid Discussion -

WoW Druid Discussion -: "

Another macro for Moonfire (Totem Destroyer)- (Credit to Darke)

/target Earthb
/target Flameto
/target Fire N
/target Grace o
/target Groundi
/target Healing S
/target Magm
/target Mana
/target Poiso
/target Seari
/target Sentr
/target Stone
/target Strength o
/target Trem
/target Wind
/cast Moonfire(Rank 1) "

- posted by Gp @ 11:09 AM

QDB: Quote #61025

QDB: Quote #61025: "#61025 +(5)- [X]
I like 2eat tape: when i was in 4 th grade there was this awesome 5 grader matthew podawski, i rememeber, and he used to ride his bike to school and mis match socks and and i really wanted to be his friend but he was so weird and he thanked me for the offer but was like 'one friend in the world is enough' he then transfered schools"

- posted by Gp @ 7:56 AM

Great saving on BroadbandAccess Package

Great saving on BroadbandAccess Package: "Wireless PC Card
Verizon Wireless PC 5740
$99.99
w/ 2-yr customer agreement and $25 1-time activation fee

View Details

Wire-free and cable-free, the PC 5740 transforms your laptop into a mobile powerhouse.

It is an exciting new VZAccess PCMCIA Card that works anywhere within the BroadbandAccess or NationalAccess Rate and Coverage Area. Dual color LEDs indicate service availability and data transfer. "

- posted by Gp @ 2:12 AM

Great saving on BroadbandAccess Package

Great saving on BroadbandAccess Package: "Wireless PC Card
Verizon Wireless PC 5740
$99.99
w/ 2-yr customer agreement and $25 1-time activation fee

View Details

Wire-free and cable-free, the PC 5740 transforms your laptop into a mobile powerhouse.

It is an exciting new VZAccess PCMCIA Card that works anywhere within the BroadbandAccess or NationalAccess Rate and Coverage Area. Dual color LEDs indicate service availability and data transfer. "

- posted by Gp @ 2:12 AM

linmodems.org

linmodems.org: " Linux Winmodem Support

Linmodem source code is listed below. We've got a discussion [unsubscribe] mailinglist (archives) , an announcements-only [ unsubscribe] mailing list, and this web page. I'm working on new archives which Google will index more happily. They have a copy of the archives, not the live archives themselves, so currently new articles aren't being added.

Status

The FIRST step towards finding a Linux driver is identifying the modem's CHIPSET. The scanModem tool will help you. Please download and run the scanModem tool before sending any query to discuss@linmodems.org. The chipset will be recognized and cogent updated knowledge and URLs written out. The manufacturer brand with model number are generally NOT informative in this regard. Modems from a single manufacturer can have different chips. But your documentation may have this critical information, so read it carefully. For PCI card modems, a database can be searched. A broader database is also available. Controller based modems utilize the 'standard' serial drivers, while the winmodems in most newer PCs and laptops require their own drivers. General information on these issues is available at the Linmodem-Howto. Only after your chipset has been identified, should help on configuration & installation issues can be sought from the mailing list discuss@linmodems.org, with archives , wherein discussions are many issues reside."

- posted by Gp @ 11:34 AM

Pantone to hex colour chart : Web Services : The University of Melbourne

Pantone to hex colour chart : Web Services : The University of Melbourne: "Pantone and hexidecimal colour conversion chart

Colours should be tested across different platforms, operating systems, browsers and versions to ensure colour is reliable displayed in typical viewing environments.

Use this chart to check the display of colour in different viewing environments prior to customising the colour of the template branding spaces."

- posted by Gp @ 4:39 AM

Google free proxy!

Google free proxy!: "Google free proxy!
Access restricted web sites using Google language tools service as a proxy.

Contributed by: bigthistle
[12/20/05 | Discuss (2) | Link to this hack]

A little tutorial found on the italian site www.manuali.net inspired me for this hack. That tutorial suggests to translate a webpage, using Google translator, to access it even if restricted."

- posted by Gp @ 11:49 AM

Welcome to maemo.org!

Welcome to maemo.org!: "Maemo Platform Overview

Maemo is a development platform to create applications for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet and other maemo compliant handheld devices. It is meant for developers with personal or commercial interests in developing software for handhelds like Internet Tablets. The software and developer community website is contributed to this audience and operated by Nokia. The platform is composed of popular open source software components, which are widely deployed in the leading Linux desktop distributions today. Maemo adapts these components to the handheld environment and contributes new technologies. To read more..."

- posted by Gp @ 11:27 AM

Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing

Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing: "Seven habits of effective text editing
Bram Moolenaar

If you spend a lot of time typing plain text, writing programs or HTML, you can save much of that time by using a good editor and using it effectively. This paper will present guidelines and hints for doing your work more quickly and with fewer mistakes.

The open source text editor Vim (Vi IMproved) will be used here to present the ideas about effective editing, but they apply to other editors just as well. Choosing the right editor is actually the first step towards effective editing. The discussion about which editor is the best for you would take too much room and is avoided. If you don't know which editor to use or are dissatisfied with what you are currently using, give Vim a try; you won't be disappointed."

- posted by Gp @ 9:31 AM

Subnixus: The last days of a nine to five. � Google Tips

Subnixus: The last days of a nine to five. � Google Tips: "After reading a thread on Digital Point, I realized that a lot of people still don’t know about all the Google Operator commands. This list will help you control your Google search. There are a few more commands out there, but these are the ones I find most useful… feel free to add your own in the comments."

- posted by Gp @ 8:04 AM

Helacyton gartleri - Disenchanted Dictionary

Helacyton gartleri - Disenchanted Dictionary: "The cancer was caused by the Human papillomavirus, which is a sexually transmitted disease. Most variants of this virus are harmless, but some are known to cause cervical cancer, as in Henrietta's case. After her diagnosis and before attempts to treat the disease with radium, another sample from the tumor was sent to George Gey, who was the head of tissue culture research at Hopkins. Gey discovered that the cells from Henrietta's tumor would not only survive and multiply outside of her body, but they didn't age either. These cells were basically immortal.

And they're still alive, even though Henrietta herself died of the cancer on October 4th, 1951. Now, HeLa cells are about as common in biological research as the lab rat and the petri dish, and are still being grown in an unbroken lineage from the cells originally harvested from Mrs. Lacks in 1951. They're used in cancer research because a scientist can perform experiments on them that otherwise couldn't be done on a living human being. They were also used in the development of the Polio vaccine, making Henrietta somewhat of a posthumous hero to millions."

- posted by Gp @ 2:08 AM

MemoryWiki - MemoryWiki

MemoryWiki - MemoryWiki: "What is MemoryWiki?

MemoryWiki is an encyclopedia of memories, a place to store your experiences and share them with others."

- posted by Gp @ 6:10 AM

A Vote of Confidence in Wikipedia - Yahoo! News

A Vote of Confidence in Wikipedia - Yahoo! News: "Search for almost anything on Google (NasdaqNM:GOOG - News) these days, and you're bound to see pointers to
Wikipedia, the sprawling open-source online encyclopedia. But the bigger the compendium gets, the more strident its detractors become. How, they ask, could an encyclopedia that lets anyone anonymously create and edit articles possibly be a repository of reliable information?
ADVERTISEMENT

Lately the skeptics have had a field day. In a Nov. 29 USA Today op-ed piece, John Seigenthaler, a former editorial director at the newspaper, blasted Wikipedia for permitting an anonymous user to write -- incorrectly -- that the journalist had been involved in the Kennedy assassination. Cybersleuths quickly cornered the culprit, who apologized to Seigenthaler, but the incident left many people with the impression Wikipedia is riddled with factual errors and partisan rants."

- posted by Gp @ 2:05 AM

TYAN Transport TX46 B4882T46U2H 2U Barebone Server-Rackmount with TYAN Thunder K8QS Pro (S4882) Motherboard - Retail at Newegg.com

Now this is a sexey beast.

TYAN Transport TX46 B4882T46U2H 2U Barebone Server-Rackmount with TYAN Thunder K8QS Pro (S4882) Motherboard Four Sockets 940 four AMD Opteron 800 series processors - Retail

Top News Article | Reuters.com

Top News Article | Reuters.com: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has built a massive security database to help protect U.S. military bases and troops that includes unwarranted information on Iraq war opponents and peace activists in the United States, a defense official said on Wednesday.

The official said the database included police reports and law enforcement tips in a legitimate domestic security effort, but that it had mistakenly swept up and kept information on people who were not threats to launch terror attacks."

- posted by Gp @ 4:55 PM

Official Google Blog: New Firefox extensions

Official Google Blog: New Firefox extensions: "New Firefox extensions

12/14/2005 07:13:00 PM
Posted by Glen Murphy, Software Engineer, Firefox Team

It wasn't that long ago that I was eating Vegemite on toast back in my homeland of Australia, idly wondering what my future employer Google might have in store for me. Now, five weeks after arriving in the country and being exposed to the Firefox codebase for the first time, and thanks to the array of geniuses sitting around me, it gives me great pleasure to announce the launch of my first project, Blogger Web Comments to Google Labs."

- posted by Gp @ 4:54 PM

Freedom to Tinker � Blog Archive � Make Your Own Copy-Protected CD with Passive Protection

Freedom to Tinker � Blog Archive � Make Your Own Copy-Protected CD with Passive Protection: "Make Your Own Copy-Protected CD with Passive Protection
Thursday December 15, 2005 by J. Alex Halderman

Here’s a great gift idea just in time for the holidays: Make your friends and relatives their very own copy-protected CDs using the same industrial-grade passive protection technology built into XCP and Macrovision discs.

Passive protection exploits subtle differences between the way computers read CDs and the way ordinary CD players do. By changing the layout of data on the CD, it’s sometimes possible to confuse computers without affecting ordinary players — or so the theory goes. In practice, the distinction between computers and CD players is less precise. Older generations of CD copy protection, which relied entirely on passive protection, proved easy to copy in some computers and impossible to play on some CD players. For these reasons, copy protection vendors now use active protection — special software designed to block copying.

Discs with XCP or Macrovision protection employ active protection in conjunction with a milder form of passive protection. You can create your own CD with exactly the same passive protection by following a straightforward five-step procedure. I’ll describe the procedure here, and then explain why it works."

- posted by Gp @ 4:52 PM

Games that use Starforce

Games that use Starforce: "Games that use Starforce

(Released Games/Upcoming Games)

Starforce is a controversial copy-protection system. Reports about destroyed CD ROM devices, unstable or slower-running Windows systems after installing a video game (even after it was removed!), and corrupted drivers as a possible result of Starforce, have made many computer gamers wary of this copy protection technology. There are also many reports from customers that say that Starforce-protected games refuse to work at all with various DVD/CD drives and notebooks.

Older versions of Starforce are not entirely compatible with the 64-bit variant of Windows XP. While publishers can fix this trouble by releasing updates for their games, it is done very rarely. This provides reason to believe that the next Windows generation may also clash with some Starforce versions, in which case one might not be able to play Starforce-protected games smoothly (or at all) unless updates are made available for them."

- posted by Gp @ 4:51 PM

comments | GPMidi.net

"Florence Flask was ... dressing for the opera when she turned to her
husband and screamed, "Erlenmeyer! My joules! Someone has stolen my
joules!"

"Now, now, my dear," replied her husband, "keep your balance and reflux
a moment. Perhaps they're mislead."

"No, I know they're stolen," cried Florence. "I remember putting them
in my burette ... We must call a copper."

Erlenmeyer did so, and the flatfoot who turned up, one Sherlock Ohms,
said the outrage looked like the work of an arch-criminal by the name
of Lawrence Ium.

"We must be careful -- he's a free radical, ultraviolet, and
dangerous. His girlfriend is a chlorine at the Palladium. Maybe I can
catch him there." With that, he jumped on his carbon cycle in an
activated state and sped off along the reaction pathway ...
-- Daniel B. Murphy, "Precipitations"

- posted by Gp @ 6:09 PM

The Video Game Revolution: "Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked" by Henry Jenkins | PBS

The Video Game Revolution: "Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked" by Henry Jenkins | PBS: "Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked

Henry Jenkins
MIT Professor

A large gap exists between the public's perception of video games and what the research actually shows. The following is an attempt to separate fact from fiction."

- posted by Gp @ 3:27 AM

AlterNet: The 14 Worst Corporate Evildoers

AlterNet: The 14 Worst Corporate Evildoers: "Corporations carry out some of the most horrific human rights abuses of modern times, but it is increasingly difficult to hold them to account. Economic globalization and the rise of transnational corporate power have created a favorable climate for corporate human rights abusers, which are governed principally by the codes of supply and demand and show genuine loyalty only to their stockholders.

Several of the companies below are being sued under the Alien Tort Claims Act, a law that allows citizens of any nationality to sue in US federal courts for violations of international rights or treaties. When corporations act like criminals, we have the right and the power to stop them, holding leaders and multinational corporations alike to the accords they have signed. Around the world--in Venezuela, Argentina, India, and right here in the United States--citizens are stepping up to create democracy and hold corporations accountable to international law."

- posted by Gp @ 12:54 AM

Torvalds: 'Use KDE' - OSNews.com

Torvalds: 'Use KDE' - OSNews.com: "Without tip-toeing around the matter, Linus Torvalds made his preference in the GNOME vs. KDE matter quite clear on the GNOME-usability list: 'I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. Please, just tell people to use KDE.' Also, 'Gnome seems to be developed by interface nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.' Update: More of the discussion here."

- posted by Gp @ 3:36 PM

Energy Fiend � Death by Caffeine

Energy Fiend � Death by Caffeine: "How much of your favorite caffeinated drink would it take to kill you? Take this quick test and find out:"

- posted by Gp @ 1:45 PM

Thottbot World of Warcraft: Black War Kodo

Thottbot World of Warcraft: Black War Kodo: "Black War Kodo
Binds when picked up
Races: Orc, Undead, Tauren, Troll
Requires Commander/Lieutenant General
Requires Level 40
Requires Kodo Riding (1)
Use: Summons and dismisses a rideable Black War Kodo. This is a very fast mount.
Cooldown: 3 sec
3 sec cast
Item Level 40
Source: Vendor"

- posted by Gp @ 11:23 PM

Freeware Tools and Utilities for Windows

Freeware Tools and Utilities for Windows: "Password Recovery Utilities
The utilities provided in the following section are for password recovery and educational purposes only. They are not intended to be used for illegal purposes."

- posted by Gp @ 10:19 PM

QDB: Random >0 Quotes

QDB: Random >0 Quotes: "#33690 (136)- [X]

OH SHIT.. i was supposed to read the communist manifesto for political science..
just read a Windows manual. same thing"

- posted by Gp @ 6:36 PM

QDB: Random >0 Quotes

QDB: Random >0 Quotes: "#33690 (136)- [X]

OH SHIT.. i was supposed to read the communist manifesto for political science..
just read a Windows manual. same thing"

- posted by Gp @ 6:36 PM

del.icio.us/help/buttons

- posted by Gp @ 6:03 PM

Photocritic.org � Blog Archive � Extreme Macro Photography on a budget

Photocritic.org � Blog Archive � Extreme Macro Photography on a budget: "Extreme Macro Photography on a budget

So, you like the idea of doing macro photography, but you think you can’t afford it? Think again - with less than �1 worth of equipment, a little bit of sweat and tears (and blood, if you, like me, are a bit on the clumsy side), and you can build yourself a surprisingly good macro lens. Don’t believe me? Well, have a look at the article, and think again!

Of course, as I’m using a Pringles can to make this lens, you also have the opportunity to pause for a snack. Now that’s the type of DIY projects I like.

So you want to take pictures of things up close, do you? You have gone tired of all the regular ways of doing so? Ready for bellows and reversing rings, but can’t afford them? Have no fear, there is a far cheaper way to get a reasonably good result!

Also, Before we go any further… Need I say that you do all of this on your own risk? If you chop a finger off, ruin a lens or your camera body, it’s your own fault, and your own problem. Just be really careful, and you should be fine."

- posted by Gp @ 4:14 PM

Shedding Some Light -- Welcome

Shedding Some Light -- Welcome: "

You do something, visit someplace, see something, or buy something. The experience is not what you expected -- it may have been surprising, or frustrating, or puzzling. So you want to understand. Sometimes the question is Who? Sometimes How? Sometimes Why? You'd like to know more.

These days we all Google for answers. If that doesn't satisfy us, maybe we call people we think can clue us in, or do some research at the library, or hire a private detective. More likely we just let it go, not having the time or patience to pursue every mystery.

Sheddingsomelight.com is a small exercise in understanding. We decided to look at some topics that have come to our attention, gathering enough information to help explain them using only the public resources that all literate citizens have at their disposal. It also turns out to be a collaboration with dozens of other individuals and companies who have assembled some of the bits and pieces and made them available in magazines or newspapers or online.

And in the spirit of that collaboration, we invite contributions of information or guidance, as well as suggestions and criticisms to make our efforts more useful."

- posted by Gp @ 12:41 PM

New York Post Online Edition: business

New York Post Online Edition: business: "December 11, 2005 -- Let it be a lesson to online retailers everywhere — beware ticking off a geek.

When Brooklyn-based dot-com PriceRitePhoto refused to sell Thomas Hawk a high-end camera offered at a loss-leader price — when he declined to also purchase expensive accessories — Hawk took his case to the blogging masses.

On the community-driven tech site Digg.com, he alleged that when he told the PriceRitePhoto sales rep he would blog about his unsatisfactory experience, the rep 'went ballistic,' threatening that he would see to it that Hawk would 'never be able to order anything on the Internet again.'

'He was outright abusive,' Hawk told The Post. 'No one should ever say that kind of thing to any customer.'

Diggers, as enthusiasts of the site are known, rose up, flooding the e-tailer's phone lines, faxes and e-mail."

- posted by Gp @ 12:16 PM

OpenOffice.org 2.0 Easter Egg - StarWars Game

OpenOffice.org 2.0 Easter Egg - StarWars Game: "Egg Name: StarWars Game
Works On: OpenOffice.org 2.0
Publisher: Sun/Open Source

How it Works:.

In any cell type in =Game('StarWars'). A small, space invaders style game will appear.

Special Notes:

This game appears to be the same as the egg reported for star office. It was tested on linux, with OpenOffice.org 2.0."

- posted by Gp @ 12:15 PM

CGI Programming on the World Wide Web

CGI Programming on the World Wide Web: "CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
By Shishir Gundavaram
1st Edition March 1996

This book is out of print, but it has been made available online through the O'Reilly Open Books Project. Be sure to check out the second edition of this book."

- posted by Gp @ 11:55 AM

Linux Newbie Guide: Shortcuts And Commands

Linux Newbie Guide: Shortcuts And Commands: "Linux Shortcuts and Commands:

Linux Newbie Administrator Guide
by Stan and Peter Klimas

This is a practical selection of the commands we use most often. Press to see the listing of all available command (on your PATH). On my small home system, it says there are 2595 executables on my PATH. Many of these 'commands' can be accessed from your favourite GUI front-end (probably KDE or Gnome) by clicking on the right menu or button. They can all be run from the command line. Programs that require GUI have to be run from a terminal opened under a GUI."

- posted by Gp @ 11:54 AM

ettercap

ettercap: "

Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks.
It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis. "

- posted by Gp @ 7:45 PM

Finding Lisp

Finding Lisp: "Reddit and Lisp psychosis

I went away on a family vacation at the first part of this week and just got back last night. During that time, I completely missed the whole Reddit scandal. It seems like the guys at Reddit ended up choosing to rewrite Reddit in Python because Lisp just wasn't working for them. To some, this seems to be a slap in the face of Lisp. However, if you look at spez's blog entry, you can see that the rationale for choosing Python was pretty sane."

- posted by Gp @ 3:34 PM

TEES: News Story

TEES: News Story: "Texas A&M electrical engineer says simple scheme can stop electronic eavesdroppers

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- James Bond may use the fanciest, most expensive and high-tech devices to thwart would-be eavesdroppers, but in a pinch, the super-spy can use one Texas A&M engineer's simple, low-cost scheme to keep data secure from the bad guys.

Dr. Laszlo Kish, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M, proposed that a simple pair of resistors on the ends of a communications wire such as a phone or computer line could keep eavesdroppers from intercepting secret messages. Added electronic disturbances (called 'noise') or the natural thermal noise (called Johnson noise) produced by the resistors makes the scheme function and keep the message secret.

Kish's paper, 'Totally secure classical communication utilizing Johnson(-like) noise and Kirchoff's Law,' in which he proposes his communications scheme, has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the journal Physics Letters A. (A preprint of the paper is available online at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509136.) The paper was also featured in a recent issue of Science (vol. 309, p. 2148, 2005). "

- posted by Gp @ 3:30 PM

Portable Firefox | PortableApps.com

Portable Firefox | PortableApps.com: "Portable Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has all the same great features as regular Firefox including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go. Learn more about Mozilla Firefox..."

- posted by Gp @ 3:59 PM

Tech-Security � Ophcrack 2.1 - LiveCD (Linux) & 2.1 Install (Win)

- posted by Gp @ 5:31 AM

GData: An Online MD5 Hash Database

GData: An Online MD5 Hash Database: "Info:
GData was started by Gravix as just a project to kill time. It started off as a collection of hashes from 2 dictionaries: TheArgon (albeit cropped) and GDict (Gravix's personal dictionary). The hashes were set up in patterns to allow for faster access time (literally over 60000 times faster than a normal hash database). It later grew and includes CrackLib and all languages from swedish to japanese. When it was originally posted, the database contained a whopping 5.65 million unique entries weighing in at just over 200 mb. The unexpected popularity of the project led its founder to create a website dedicated to it: GDataOnline.com. "

- posted by Gp @ 3:54 AM

GData: An Online MD5 Hash Database

GData: An Online MD5 Hash Database: "Info:
GData was started by Gravix as just a project to kill time. It started off as a collection of hashes from 2 dictionaries: TheArgon (albeit cropped) and GDict (Gravix's personal dictionary). The hashes were set up in patterns to allow for faster access time (literally over 60000 times faster than a normal hash database). It later grew and includes CrackLib and all languages from swedish to japanese. When it was originally posted, the database contained a whopping 5.65 million unique entries weighing in at just over 200 mb. The unexpected popularity of the project led its founder to create a website dedicated to it: GDataOnline.com. "

- posted by Gp @ 3:54 AM

GData: An Online MD5 Hash Database

GData: An Online MD5 Hash Database: "Info:
GData was started by Gravix as just a project to kill time. It started off as a collection of hashes from 2 dictionaries: TheArgon (albeit cropped) and GDict (Gravix's personal dictionary). The hashes were set up in patterns to allow for faster access time (literally over 60000 times faster than a normal hash database). It later grew and includes CrackLib and all languages from swedish to japanese. When it was originally posted, the database contained a whopping 5.65 million unique entries weighing in at just over 200 mb. The unexpected popularity of the project led its founder to create a website dedicated to it: GDataOnline.com. "

- posted by Gp @ 3:54 AM

New Sony CD security risk found | CNET News.com

New Sony CD security risk found | CNET News.com: "Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital rights group jointly announced Tuesday that they had found, and fixed, a new computer security risk associated with some of the record label's CDs.
The danger is associated with copy-protection software included on some Sony discs created by a company called SunnComm Technologies. The vulnerability could allow malicious programmers to gain control of computers that have run the software, which is typically installed automatically when a disc is put in a computer's CD drive. "

- posted by Gp @ 3:44 AM

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

- posted by Gp @ 7:55 PM

Schneier on Security: FBI to Approve All Software?

Schneier on Security: FBI to Approve All Software?: "FBI to Approve All Software?

Sounds implausible, I know. But how else do you explain this FCC ruling (from September -- I missed it until now):

The Federal Communications Commission thinks you have the right to use software on your computer only if the FBI approves.

No, really. In an obscure 'policy' document released around 9 p.m. ET last Friday, the FCC announced this remarkable decision.

According to the three-page document, to preserve the openness that characterizes today's Internet, 'consumers are entitled to run applications and use services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement.' Read the last seven words again.

The FCC didn't offer much in the way of clarification. But the clearest reading of the pronouncement is that some unelected bureaucrats at the commission have decreeed that Americans don't have the right to use software such as Skype or PGPfone if it doesn't support mandatory backdoors for wiretapping. (That interpretation was confirmed by an FCC spokesman on Monday, who asked not to be identified by name. Also, the announcement came at the same time as the FCC posted its wiretapping rules for Internet telephony.)"

- posted by Gp @ 7:13 PM

Colorize black and white photos - DevLobby.com - The Developer Lounge

- posted by Gp @ 5:37 AM

rpm2html/rpmfind

rpm2html/rpmfind: "The rpmfind and rpm2html command line tools are deprecated. The C code base will not be maintained. However the search engine and network services found on the rpmfind.net machines will continue."

- posted by Gp @ 3:06 AM

Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat

- posted by Gp @ 3:06 AM

Poison Water = Hydrogen. New Microbial Genome Shows How

Poison Water = Hydrogen. New Microbial Genome Shows How: "Poison Water = Hydrogen. New Microbial Genome Shows How

Take a pot of scalding water, remove all the oxygen, mix in a bit of poisonous carbon monoxide, and add a pinch of hydrogen gas. It sounds like a recipe for a witch's brew. It may be, but it is also the preferred environment for a microbe known as Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans.

An Electron Micrograph of a C. hydrogenoformans Endospore. (From: Wu M, Ren Q, Durkin AS, Daugherty SC, Brinkac LM, et al. (2005) Life in Hot Carbon Monoxide: The Complete Genome Sequence of Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans Z-2901. PLoS Genet 1(5): e65)

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In a paper published in the November 27th issue of PLoS Genetics, a research team led by scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) report the determination and analysis of the complete genome sequence of this organism. Isolated from a hot spring on the Russian volcanic island of Kunashir, this microbe lives almost entirely on carbon monoxide. While consuming this normally poisonous gas, the microbe mixes it with water, producing hydrogen gas as waste."

- posted by Gp @ 7:20 AM

Angry BellSouth Withdrew Donation, New Orleans Says

Angry BellSouth Withdrew Donation, New Orleans Says: "Angry BellSouth Withdrew Donation, New Orleans Says

By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 3, 2005; Page D01

Hours after New Orleans officials announced Tuesday that they would deploy a city-owned, wireless Internet network in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, regional phone giant BellSouth Corp. withdrew an offer to donate one of its damaged buildings that would have housed new police headquarters, city officials said yesterday.

According to the officials, the head of BellSouth's Louisiana operations, Bill Oliver, angrily rescinded the offer of the building in a conversation with New Orleans homeland security director Terry Ebbert, who oversees the roughly 1,650-member police force."

- posted by Gp @ 7:13 AM

dmiessler.com � infoseccerts

dmiessler.com � infoseccerts: "A Guide To Information Security Certifications
I’ve seen the question asked more than a few times recently about what the best information security certifications are. Some people already have one or more and are looking to expand, others are just getting started and want to know how to do so. This page will hopefully offer some help in this area. I’m going to highlight a few of the options and discuss who I think should be going for which, and why.

I’ll be rating each one based on the criteria below:"

- posted by Gp @ 7:55 PM