Took Vacation

Have not posted anything due to the fact that a took a vacation in a Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. Will Upload pictures of Bahamas and CocoCay.

Attacking and Defending

I will be working on a paper soon for two programs, I will have to develop a wiki for a program that defends the user and a program that attacks the user/system. I will be covering truecrypt and metasploit. I promise a very interesting article on metasploit due to the fact that is the only opensource Pen testing framework I have been able to find in my webscapde's.

Shields Up, and GRC.com

Ohh boy do I have a recommendation, first off I want to talk about grc.com and Steve Gibson the owner. Mr. Gibson is an amazing programmer who has the time to program neat little tools and host them for free in his site, the one I'm recommending today is ShieldsUp!, it is a web base port scanner that basically tell you where your firewall and your network has a exploitable hole. Aside from this amazing free tool Mr. Gibson is the proud created of SpinRite, a recovery tool from the heavens, a must see if you ever have a bad hard drive or windows corrupt on you.

the website for SpinRite and all of Steve Gibsons free tools is www.grc.com

Another Encryption vector

Did you know you can encrypt even your email connection. I love gmail, but I can't go out and say it has been the most secure of email applications. To solve this issue check out hushmail.com, don't get scam by network solutions secure ssl certificate emails. This one is completely free and is recommended by one of the founders of nmap the port scanning utility.

Free Alternative to Office 2007/2003

Its called open office, the is project sponsor by Sun Micro systems created under their java platform. Please check it out, it is a complete package, it has an alternative to excel, word, power point, access, and power point.

Please download at www.openoffice.org

Utorrent, Slim Torrent Client Must see

check out this very light torrent client, it is also very fast and easy on the memory the install is 300 Kb in size UTORRENT

to use this client please download the torrent of your choice at isohunt.com

Apologies

I have not been able to post anything in over a month, there is a boat load of networking advise that will be coming soon, I apologies for this lack of updates.

VMware, server...Virtualize everything

If you are a computer enthusiast and you haven't heard of virtual machines, do yourself a favor read up on it. I consider it the next great step in computing since dual processors. This technology has been around longer than one may think. What is it you ask? Well simply put it is running a computer inside a computer, basically emulating a computer inside another. Very similar to a nintendo emulator in a computer. Check out the server edition, from vmware http://vmware.com/

Free image Reading and Burning tool for windows

The tool is called imgburn, it can be found at http://www.imgburn.com/.
this tool is amazing, first off it is use to copy dvd's, to make iso(exact image copy of a CD) of anything, and I mean "anything" is great. Second the tool is only 1.5 mg. Combined with the right tools you will be on your way to backing up your dvd's. Or any game for that matter.
For a more profound tool for dvd back-ups checkout http://www.dvddecryptor.org/
is called DVDdecryptor.

VOIP tool of the future

Is called asterisk@home some of you have heard of it some of you haven't it is both for windows and Linux alike, and it is the application that is behind the force of VOIP in the open source environment. For some nifty trick with this tool and a spare $35.00 and a server check out this guide. Build it yourself Unlimited Domestic Cell and house phone service for $35 a month.
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