Mon 31st Dec, 2007 - Nmap featured in The Bourne Ultimatum
The de-facto security analysis tool NMAP, was featured in the Borne Ultimatum, in the scene where they hack into a mail server, using the new gui Zenmap, too cool. Can’t wait to try it out.
Mon 5th Nov, 2007 - Becoming a Google Addict
Wow, it’s been a while since my last post. Anyways, I’ve been using Google Apps like crazy. Docs, Calendar, Gmail, Reader, Picasa, heck I should move this bolg over to blogger. Today I want to focus on Google Docs and Calendar.
Google Docs
Google Docs is amazing, I don’t have to worry about “did I copy that document to my usb?” or “is that file stored in my desktop or laptop, which one is the latest edit?” I edit directly, plus I can export to many different program formats (word, openoffice, pdf, rtf, txt) I would’ve never imagined an online app could replace a program running locally. I was recently editing a spreadsheet and I decided to give Docs a go. The webapp behaves exactly like it’s Windows counterpart, at least according to my needs which are pretty basic. With Documents, it takes a little getting used to. Not everything is available in the menu bar and since I include a lot of images in my documents, uploading them takes just a bit more effort. The thing is all of that all theses webapps are free. How does Google do it?? I have not tried presentation but that is next on my list and pretty sure I won’t be disappointed.
Calendar
Another piece of amazing programming. I’m a person who tries to remember dates by hard or I jot them down in the nearest piece of paper I can find. Calendar has reformed my ways. How you ask?? Simplicity. I have my Gmail / Reader window open 90% of the time I’m browsing, in either window I have quick access to Calender, I just click, write in my event, get on with life. Plus I can set it so I get an email reminder of the event in Gmail, the only thing I look at regularly. Yes my friends, it’s that Google mentality of making things simple that has won me over (also the free part.)
gOS
An operating system based on Ubuntu called gOS included in some computers sold by ****mart. It includes a direct link to most Google apps and it’s geared toward that Web 2.0 integration. Now imagine if Google were to release an operating system…they already did, the only thing is it came in software web 2.0 based bundles…
Fri 30th Mar, 2007 - DOS more like Linux???
In an effort to make my Windows machine behave more like a decent computer, I found these GNU utilities for Win32. It makes a few essential Unix tools run on Windows without having to install Cygwin. Just place the extracted folder at the root of your drive. Right click My Computer, select Properties, now select the Advanced Tab. At the bottom of the page click the Environment Variables, click on “New” and enter the information as shown in the next image. ***Use at your own risk, some of these tools are dangerous (ex. the command “dd” can rewrite an entire drive you’re not careful)
That’s it. Now you can “grep” and “ls -l” just like in Linux. Tools listed on homepage, scroll page to check for available utilities. Download Here
Unix “ls” and “grep” command:
Fri 23rd Mar, 2007 - Latest Desktop Picture
Sat 10th Feb, 2007 - Creative use of a Dell
A few days ago, a crazy man, let’s call him “My Friend the Painter” was installing a server OS on an IBM server. But guess what, all he had was the DVD version of the OS and this server only had a CD player. Whats’ a guy to do??? Why not split open up a Dell, hook up the IDE cable from the DVD-ROM to the server. And to my surprise and amazement, it worked. Kudos to “My Friend the Painter” on coming up with such an ingenious plan. Then he realized he had the 64bit version of the OS (IBM is 32bit)… Dell couldn’t help him there…
(Top-down view, picture kinda blurry, taken with my cellphone)