825mbps “Phantom DSL” – NBN Killer?
Exceeelllleeennnttttt. Puts Stephen Conroy’s NBN fibre network to shame, doesn’t it? Nokia Siemens Networks achieves world record copper DSL speeds Paris, France – 25 October 2010 “Phantom DSL” reaches 825 megabits per second over 400 meters of copper lines Nokia Siemens Networks has successfully tested a technology that could drastically increase the data carrying capacity […]
Office 2011 for Mac
Plain and simple. Office 2008 on the Mac sucks. Yeah, I can edit my documents just fine, but it still sucks. Office 2007 in Windows introduced the “ribbon” bar, something I’ve accustomed to and grown to like, whereas Office 2008 for Mac, adds these panels on the right hand side of your screen, similar to […]
lock picking 101
LifeHacker has essentially posted a “101 guide” to lock picking, for all the little kids out there who are on holidays! If you’ve never picked a lock before, you’re missing out. It’s a fun, for the most part it’s a strictly analogue/mechanical pursuit (a therapeutic break from electronic gadgets), and unlike, say, learning to juggle, […]
iPhone Lock Screen Security Flaw
wired.com posted an article moments ago with a funny little flaw, allowing you to bypass the “lock code” configured on an iPhone. The discovery by some Brazilian dude (read the article here – http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/iphone-snoop/), notes the following procedure: 1. Press the emergency call buton 2. Dial ### 3. Push the call button, and immediately hit […]
It’s Potato Not Pasta!
I’m going to spare a minute for something that isn’t Mac, iPhone, or even Windows… No, this topic is far more important. Gnocchi!
I’ve caved, time for an iPad
Okay, no, I lied. But it appears, after Steve Jobs keynote yesterday (or last night Australian time), that Mac OS X Lion is going to be very iPad-esque. From the “sneak peak” posted on Apple’s website (here – http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/), all I can say is wow! I think this is really exciting. I’ve been a Mac-supporter for […]
Better TCPViewer
I needed to show all the connections on a virus infected machine a while ago, and being a Microsoft tech, I normally used the Sysinternals TCPViewer tool to do this… However, TCPViewer is a bit limited. I mean, I’m trying to track all the connections on a given port, say, SMTP port 25, but I […]
Forefront TMG Stuff
http://www.isascripts.org/ – a bunch of handy scripts by a security consultant named Jason Fossen Microsoft tools for TMG 2010 – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8809cfda-2ee1-4e67-b993-6f9a20e08607&displaylang=en Technet Doco for TMG 2010 – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff355324.aspx Jim Harrison’s list of tools for TMG2010 – http://www.isatools.org/tools.asp?Context=TMG2010 Microsoft ISA Blog – http://blogs.technet.com/b/isablog/
TODO: Webmin Virtual Host Configuration
I’m using Webmin for “basic” administration of a few webservers I run. Admittedly, most of the configuration I do with Webmin is simple zone file edits and editing virtual host directives, by editing the configuration files directly, using the web interface merely as a text editor. It seems that wherever I go, outgoing SSH is […]
Mac OS X Mouse Acceleration
I previously posted a while back that I had issues with the Mac OS X mouse acceleration with a Microsoft optical mouse, which I fixed by installing the IntelliPoint software. Well, recently I started using a Logitech bluetooth mouse, and the problem popped up again. This time, it wasn’t so easy to fix by just […]