New Browsers

Well Firefox 3 over all seems faster, they have included an auto complete on the address bar, which I think is pretty sweet. The GUI was changed slightly but nothing too dramatic.



What really astonished me was the new Opera browser 9.5, wow, that is all I can say wow. This thing has everything and a litttle bit more. Anything you would expect and need from a browser it has. First it has all he features that firefox has, plus cooler widgets. And finally someone gets the clue about bookmark synchronization, wow, the service is amazing and it is called opera link, check it out here:

http://www.opera.com/products/link/

New Cool Thing to Do online

check this out it seems like this is the new "cool" thing to do online. I will do a miserable attempt to move the blog there. It is call video blogging and is basically having a life feed off your blog. My favorite podcast (Linux Action Show) just moved to this method, and I'm considering it.
Check out the site:
http://www.ustream.tv/

HACK THAT BOX EVENT IN FIU

Florida International University is hosting a event called HACK that BOX. I wonder what it is about?? Well I hope they continue putting out technical fun events like these that involve some creative thinking. The event takes places on ECS Room 280 and starts at 3:00 PM

I will be taking my new eeepc which I finally loaded with the new BT3 (BackTrack 3) to do some 'hacking' myself and take a whack at that box.

There I believe will be some prizes involved for whom ever is able to hack it.

Dominican Republic Tranning

I did a training the past week by Scientific Atlanta/Cisco. The training covered how to setup a Head End and use System Manager. System Manager is a server that manages analog cable systems, this managers everything down the line, it is the only machine you will ever need to manager over 500,000 analog cable boxes. This is a dead technology in the USA and Industrialized countries, but in 2nd world countries like Venezuela, Columbia, Dominican Republic, etc... Attached are the Pics of the system, the collocation/ Head End where we where working on and the system.

Last Weeks Meeting For the Rainbow Project

we have a site for the project now:

RainBow Center

To find get to our island search for FIU Ryder Business Island

Here are the Pictures of Our Last Meeting:



And of the Board Design So Far:

To clarify last post

A video from Verisign on two factor Authentication:

YubiCo and its YubiKey

It is a member of the one time password initiative, this people are a defiantly a check out for future one time password solutions.
How does the YubiKey works and what does it do for me.

The Yubi key is basically a usb key(token)that you insert into your computer and when you hit the green glowing light on the usb key, it spits out a 44 character string that is your password. The 44 letter string is semi sudo random data. Which means it can be tgracked back to your key but it cannot be track or duplicated or reverse engineered. This is in essence a perfect unique password. This string is different every time you hit the green glowing button, so there is no worries of some key logging your password. Also portion of the string is 128 bit AES randomly generated number.

Now for uses, how can this be used. Well think car keys, think credit card authorization keys, think computer passwords, anytime of authentication method that requires a key and or password of any type can be replaced by one of this single keys. The only mystery requirement is that the receiving party of the string must have your key ID (part of the 6 first characters of the string) programed into it.
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For more information check out: http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey

Shibui Resturant

This is my favorite sushi place here in Miami. The sushi is amazingly cheap and great tasting, fresh every time I visit, the name is Shibui.

Here is the pic of the last supper with the family

Shift Happens

Please see this video it always puts me into perspective, it is amazing it is how fast we are progressing as a human race and it is diving our progressing my cultures.

Secondlife Monopoly Design

Here you may see me working on a second life project with professor Ronald M Lee. We are trying to recreate the game of monopoly in second life. Does anyone have an Idea on how to deal with title cards with out using the inventory system and assigning note cards to the title cards??? We are puzzled as you can see. To the back you can also see the monopoly board design.