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  • Tech Tidbits Daily for August 17, 2005

    August 17, 2005

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    Today’s item comes from the August 2005 edition of Communications of the ACM.  It is a quick mention of a very detailed 8 page article on "WiFi Attack Vectors" by Hall Berghel and Jacob Uecker.

    If you are seriously interested in WiFi security and how to detect your vulnerabilities then this is the article for you. Some of the tools that they reference include:

    • Airsnort (airsnort.shmoo.com)
    • AirCrack (www.cro.net:8040/code/network)
    • chopper & chopchop (www.netstumbler.org)
    • WEPwedgie (sourceforge.net/projects/wepwedgie)
    • WPA Cracker (www.tinypeap.com/html/wpa_cracker.html)
    • coWPATTY (new.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Codes_main)
    • leap (packetstormsecurity.nl/0310-exploits/leap.tgz)
    • LEAPcracker (www.thc.org/download.php?t=r@f=thc-leapcracker-0.1.tar.gz)
    • asleap (asleap.sourceforge.net)
    • John the Ripper (www.openwall.com/john)
    • Wi-Foo (www.wi-foo.com)

    The authors also really recommend Auditing Wireless Networks by SANS.org.

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  • EVDO Is Working Now

    August 17, 2005

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    I got an email from someone who wishes to remain anonymous who saw either my previous blog posts or my TabletPCBuzz.com posts about my EVDO woes.

    He suggested tunning off some Bluetooth ports and trying again.  Sure enough he was right, it does appear to be a COMM port issue.  Best of all, now the EVDO is working on the Toshiba Tecra M4 that I have with the 5220 card.

    Meanwhile, I have gotten two cards sent to me by Verizon to try out because we were pretty sure in our troubleshooting testing that it was the 5220 causing the problems.  The new cards are suppose to be the: KPC650 and the PC5740.

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  • Tech Tidbits Daily for August 16, 2005

    August 16, 2005

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    Today we look at Windows media conversion tools highlighted in recent editions of PC World and MaximumPC:

    • Rad Video Tool
    • DBpowerAMP Music Converter
    • DIVX 6 Converter

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  • Made it to DC

    August 16, 2005

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    Whew … made it safe and sound to DC.  I looks like rain but I’m going to go for a run anyway.

    UPDATE: It did rain on the run.  I got a little wet but I am not sure if it was the rain or the humidity? 🙂  Time for a shower and dinner

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  • Tech Tidbits Daily for August 15, 2005

    August 15, 2005

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    PC Magazine for 23Aug05 examines PCs for Back To School.  They looked at both laptops and desktops.

    On the notebook side the Gateway M250XL gets a PC Magazine Editors’ Choice award up against the Avertedc AV4265-EH1, Dell Inspiron 700m, the HP Compaq Presario V2000, and the Toshiba M45-S165. 

    On the desktop side the Dell Dimension 5100 was the PC Magazine Editors’ Choice award winner.  The other units they looked at included: eMachines T6520, Gateway 5310S, HP Compaq Presario SR1550NX, and the HP Pavilion a1120n.  The T6520 & the a1120n both used Athlon 64 3400+ 2.4-GHz processors.

    The also liked Apple eMac 1.42-GHz Superdrive.

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  • Tech Tidbits Daily for August 12, 2005

    August 12, 2005

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    While I am pretty happy with using X1 Desktop Search for Windows v5.0 on my primary work system, I have been considering installing one of the free search tools on my home podcasting system.

    One of the ones that I think is now at the top of my list is the Copernic Desktop Search that just came out with version 1.6 and it has gotten a lot of awards from CNET, Laptop Magazine, Slate Magazine & the University of Wisconsin E-Business Consortium, and PC World.

    The software works with Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP.

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  • What Is In My Ear – Podcast Love

    August 12, 2005

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    I can’t get enough podcasts … here are some thoughts on some of the recent ones that have infected my ears …

    Dan Klass is very funny, and I need to laugh more.  I think I need a joke of the day or something, but I’ll take The Bitterest Pill when it comes out.  Finish the darn book please …

    Speaking about the darn book … Reel Reviews is also amazingly good audio listening.  Every movie I have watched because of Michael’s recommendation has been excellent.

    Morning Stories by WGBH is classic quality public radio with stories that will make you think.

    Not too sure you can get motivated to work out?  Then listen to Endurance Radio’s interview with Brian Gatens.  Amazing!

    Dan Bricklin’s Software Licensing Podcast recent two podcasts – one interviewing the CEO of mySQL and the other with Tim O’Reilly were both full of cutting edge ideas in the ares of technology, business, and legal.  Also Denise Howell at Bag and Baggage podcast has some great ideas on technologies applied to the legal profession.  If all lawyers were like Denise, we probably would have to do away with lawyer jokes. 😉

    If you want to make money and spend your money on marketing wisely in this  "Internet economy" you gotta listen to the Church of the Customer.   Also Craig Patchett’s Behind the Scenes has been covering some great podcastings tips related to promotion.

    New music? Dave Slusher at Evil Genius Chronicles has been playing some great stuff lately.  And even Network World’s Jason Meserve got into the music business recently with a great interview with John Roulat from the band Forever Einstein.

    Whew … with all this in your head you might need "nothing" so check out Jimmy Jett.  A very good, short podcast about nothing in particular …  just good old fashion entertainment.

    And I haven’t even started with technology podcasts … just go here: TechPodcasts.com … you should find something from the 57 members. "If it is tech, its here" might be our buzz phrase but frankly it is also true.

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  • Knowledge Work Athletics by David Allen

    August 12, 2005

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    David Allen is doing a presenation for Microsoft entitled "Knowledge Work Athletics ".

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  • Tech Tidbits Daily for August 11, 2005

    August 11, 2005

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    IPSWITCH has a Customer Success Story site that I recently found out about.  There is an interesting story about how WD-40 is using IPSWITCH’s FTP tools to transfer data securely between their UK operations and their suppliers.  Thanks also to IPSWITCH for supporting WGBH’s Monrning Stories podcast.

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  • Tech Tidbits Daily for August 10, 2005

    August 10, 2005

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    Today we look real quickly at a pointer from Jeremy Hague about a new tool from Netralia called Skylook that integrates Microsoft Outlook and Skype.  There is also a 14-day trial version available for evaluation.

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