Bad Ideas of Web Design
May 31st, 2006
by r00t 4orce
Things standards-based designers sometimes do, but shouldn’t. 8 in all.
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Send encrypted emails through gmail
May 31st, 2006
by r00t 4orce
using firefox and greasemonkey you can send encrytped emails with gmail without having to use external apps like GPG or PGP.
Another One here:
www.langenhoven.com/code/emailencrypt/gmailencrypt.php
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The Broken Laptop I Sold on Ebay
May 31st, 2006
by r00t 4orce
This was just too good to not post. Ahh revenge is so sweet…
“After selling a broken laptop on Ebay..the buyer was pleasantly surprised to find Amir didn’t wipe the hard drive. The purchaser then created a blog and posted several unflattering photos and details of Amirâ’s life…”
FYI the “Original” page..
www.amirtofangsazan.blogspot.com/
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Wonders of ‘dd’ and ‘netcat’ :: Cloning Operating Systems
May 30th, 2006
by r00t 4orce
Anytime we think about installing OS on more than one system ‘cloning’ comes to our attention. Because we are too lazy :-). Well that is one of the important characteristics of Systems Administrator so that he/she is forced to automate. In this document we will try to exploit the power of low level data transfer command popularly known as ‘dd’ and netcat. These programs are available for all major UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms. These commands are fairly popular among Forensics Analysis professionals.
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A look at the FreeNAS server
May 30th, 2006
by r00t 4orce
FreeNAS, an open source NAS server, can convert a PC into a network-attached storage server. The software, which is based on FreeBSD, Samba, and PHP, includes an operating system that supports various software RAID models and a Web user interface. The server supports access from Windows machines, Apple Macs, FTP, SSH, and Network File System (NFS).
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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server Edition to Include Certified LAMP Stack
May 30th, 2006
by r00t 4orce
The Server Edition of the June 1st 2006 release of Ubuntu will include a mechanism to set up a standardised, certified and supported LAMP server with a single command. The feature reduces the setup time for companies providing hosted LAMP services as well as making it easier for organisations to set up and maintain their own LAMP server
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Accessibility Colour Wheel
May 30th, 2006
by r00t 4orce
This colour wheel displays different coloured text on different backgrounds so you can see how accessible it is. Personally, I find the AJAX in this amazing.
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Setup a transparent proxy with Squid
May 29th, 2006
by r00t 4orce
Main benefit of setting transparent proxy is you do not have to setup individual browsers to work with proxies.
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Password hashing using PHP and MySQL
May 29th, 2006
by r00t 4orce
This article will explain what a hash is, why you want to use them instead of storing real passwords in your applications, and give you some examples of how to implement password hashing in PHP and MySQL.
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Cool map of the Internet
May 28th, 2006
by r00t 4orce
This site uses Google’s “related sites” feature to show what site is connected to each other.
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