Static in the Ether

My first foray into the tag soup that is  XSL and XSLT has been to turn the XML outputs from the InterNet Barometer System as discussed previously into plain text output which I can use more easily for comparing with some of my other data sources. While A cursory browse cannot find any Terms [...]

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For the last few months I’ve been plagued by the inability to at times remote desktop to some of my Windows XP based system. While not critical, it is nice to be able to connect home and carry on working on a document/email I was busy with before departing to work.
After some hunting, I narrowed [...]

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With the comment spam continuing to pour in I caved in a and implemented captchas for comments.  While a solution using mathematical computation such as that offered by the match captcha plugin for wordpress, since the are only host defendant (rather than having to rely on some other 3rd-party service), this particular plugin was only [...]

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I probably should have posted this a while back but, its still worth noting that Raffael Marty’s Applied Security Visualization has been released, and includes a copy of the DAVIX CD as distributed at Defcon 16 (davix-1.0.1-defcon16.iso.gz – also obtainable from the homepage, includes a couple of packet traces as used in the Defcon [...]

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With the 16th incarnation of Defcon having come and gone last week, a number of people have put together a nice list of the various tools released. The ZDnet’s Rob Fuller has done all the hard work of tracking down the various tools and their websites in his article -  entitled “ DEFCON 16: [...]

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Why trying out FreeNAS yesterday I ran into the problem thats tripped me up in the past, Windows ships with basic CD writing functionality, but nothing for burning images.  Previously I’ve used CDRtools or Nero, but didnt have these handy.  I came across InfraRecord, which suites all my needs.  It provided simple authoring capabilities for [...]

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Some two and a half hours into the FF3.0 download campaign, and the toll is beginning to show.spreadfirefox.com seems to be refusing connections. While individual mirror sites seem up, it looks like the counts are going via some redirector script. getfirefox.com is however working fine.
The impact its having on mirrors seems to be quite intense. [...]

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Today is the official launch of the Firefox 3.0 Browser. the 24 Hour period form June 17th to June 18th will be a a record attempt in order to get into the Guinness book of Records, for the most software downloads in a day. The day apparently starts on Tuesday, June 17th after 10am [...]

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DAVIX is the upcoming live CD for data analysis and visualization, which will be released at Blackhat/DEFCON in Las Vegas this summer, with another talk at VizSec 2008. From the VizSec.org announcement:
Jan Monsch and Raffael Marty and have prepared the second beta version of DAVIX. And are now seeking for beta testers that have [...]

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Having now migrated to Wordpress from my own very customised version of phpBloxsom, which ran the previous incarnation of this blog, Ive been left with the issue of dealing with all the sites pulling my RSS feeds. With the change of software has come a change of url for the location of the feeds.
Apache’s [...]

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