http://xkyle.com Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:01:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Don't you just love it when co-workers communicate with you in the most interesting ways??? http://xkyle.com/2008/11/17/vnc-surpirse/ You may remember my old laptop from such posts as this. Well it broke, so I bought another one! It even has the original stickers. But.. Its slower than I remember. So I'm trying out different Ubuntu versions to see what boots the fastest. Here are my methodology and results. Methodology: The first number ... http://xkyle.com/2008/11/17/newold-laptop-ubuntu-montage/ You may not know, but I used to work for Wikipedia! (here if you don't believe me) You also may not know that all Wikimedia Foundation projects (like Wikipedia) run off of a opensource piece of software called Mediawiki. The software is the bomb, and I've had my own for a number ... http://xkyle.com/2008/11/16/its-a-wiki-wiki-world/ Most vpns... in fact... all of them, are based on a client/server model. This means that all vpn clients call home to one vpn server and connect. All traffic goes through that vpn server and then gets passed on to its original destination. But what if you could have the ... http://xkyle.com/2008/11/14/n2n-peer-to-peer-vpn/ Today is the Birthday of AloR, the author of the amazing tool, ettercap. You can see that because it is his birthday, he asks that you email him. I happily obliged. Ettercap is an amazing tool. Not only does it have a console, curses, and graphical versions, it can be scripted, hacked, ... http://xkyle.com/2008/11/14/ettercaps-authors-birthday/ I've become a semi-expert on wireless networking and their security features.. and how to get around them. Before I continue I want to emphasize: The act of cracking encryption is not illegal just like picking a lock is not illegal. It is the unauthorized access of that network which is illegal, ... http://xkyle.com/2008/10/06/my-wireless-cracking-tool/ On Saturday we celebrated a my belated birthday by having a LAN party at my work Sago Networks. Games we played: Gate 88 Halo Open Arena Nexuiz http://xkyle.com/2008/09/29/operation-lan-party-success/ My girlfirend likes to do these puzzles called Pic-A-Pix from ConceptisPuzzles. They use a matrix of numbers to hint the puzzler to to filling in pixels to create pixel art. Sometimes there is color. Every week four new PAP's are pushed out, and I've been told that the answers are somewhere ... http://xkyle.com/2008/09/29/pap-solutions-hack/ This past Tuesday I hosted a DNS training seminar for all the employees at Sago. It went over great! The curriculum involved: The difference between Caching and Authoritative DNS All the different types of DNS Records How to use dig and how to interpret it How to troubleshoot dns problems Secret DNS Tricks! I recorded the ... http://xkyle.com/2008/09/24/dns-training-at-sago/ So I've found a better way to do what I did in the previous post. Instead of running a separate script to parse the arp alert logs, I have arp alert itself send the alerts! The key is this line in the arpalert.conf action on detect = "/etc/scripts/arp-alert" Its so simple, it ... http://xkyle.com/2008/08/21/custom-arp-alerts-ii/