Sunday, February 11, 2007
Two nice free tools for rebuilding your PC
A friend got me onto Autopatcher last year. Its a project that has consolidated all of the Windows updates, hotfixes, product enhancements and power tools into a single installation package. It even has support for Acrobat, Shockwave, Flash and Google toolbar. Once Autopatcher is installed you can update all of the patches on your system in one go with only a single reboot. A much better option than Windows Update for patching a fresh system (do you really want to be connecting to the Internet while your system is unpatched?)
The other nice tool is Ghost for Unix or g4u for short. G4u can be used on any OS including Windows to create an image of your system. It works by doing a dd, gzip and ftp of the entire filesystem on the fly. You boot from CD (or floppy) and as long as you have access to an FTP server you can create your image. I was able to image my 30gb laptop drive down to a 3gb file in 20 minutes. Restoring is the reverse process.
The other nice tool is Ghost for Unix or g4u for short. G4u can be used on any OS including Windows to create an image of your system. It works by doing a dd, gzip and ftp of the entire filesystem on the fly. You boot from CD (or floppy) and as long as you have access to an FTP server you can create your image. I was able to image my 30gb laptop drive down to a 3gb file in 20 minutes. Restoring is the reverse process.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Ruby.Net compiler updated beta
The guys at Queensland University of Technology have released an updated beta of the Ruby.Net compiler. The compiler is pretty good but incomplete.
The update schedule between releases has been slow but will now be sped up to 1 release per month with the project going open source in the second half of this year.
The update schedule between releases has been slow but will now be sped up to 1 release per month with the project going open source in the second half of this year.
Telstra Phone Hack
I don't know if you have noticed, but some time in the past 6 months the number of "rings" for Telstra mobiles has dropped down to about 3 rings (15 seconds).
*Place tin foil hat on now* - It stinks of a conspiracy by Telstra to raise revenue... you miss call cause the phone does not ring for long enough, caller leaves message, you retrieve message, return call = 3 calls + time on phone leaving/retrieving message.
There is a simple way to get around this if you are a Telstra mobile customer with a GSM/CDMA phone (i.e. not 3G). Enter the following code to adjust your ring length:
*Place tin foil hat on now* - It stinks of a conspiracy by Telstra to raise revenue... you miss call cause the phone does not ring for long enough, caller leaves message, you retrieve message, return call = 3 calls + time on phone leaving/retrieving message.
There is a simple way to get around this if you are a Telstra mobile customer with a GSM/CDMA phone (i.e. not 3G). Enter the following code to adjust your ring length:
**61*101**30# then press Send/Talk
This will extend your ring time to 30 seconds (6 rings).
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Listed on DarkNet = Site Outage
LMCrack was listed on the awesome DarkNet site/blog last month, which resulted in this site getting hit with some 4,000 downloads, resulting in about 40 odd gigs of traffic. As my monthly quota is 20GB my ISP took the site down till the 1st of Feb for exceeding my allowance.
I hope some of you get some good results out of LMCrack. Open to suggestions for a future version - c h i l l m a n [at] p e n t e s t e r [dot] c o m [do] a u
I hope some of you get some good results out of LMCrack. Open to suggestions for a future version - c h i l l m a n [at] p e n t e s t e r [dot] c o m [do] a u
