In Through The Out Door

Tech community joins Katrina relief effortCompanies rally around victims of Hurricane Katrina, offering technical assistance, aiding the homeless and gathering relief donations.

News: Storm brewing over SHA-1 as further breaks are found:Three Chinese researchers refine an attack on the encryption standard used to digitally sign documents, leaving cryptographers to debate whether the Secure Hash Algorithm needs to be mothballed more quickly.

A look at Netflow (31 Aug 2005):Netflow is a Linux or BSD based network data collection and reporting system.“Netflow provides a session-level view of network traffic, recording information about every TCP/IP transaction that occurs over your network. It might not be as complete a record of network traffic as tcpdump can provide, but it’s also much easier to manage and much more informative when aggregated.”

vi plugins (31 Aug 2005):My vi using friends have laughed and been scornful about how my beloved emacs has everything including a kitchen sink…. (But I am probably wrong This article is an overview of vi plugins.“Yes, Tetris is available for vim, with high score and Traditional or Rotating game play.

T-Mobile’s ‘Broadband’:

EDGE Vs. EVDO?. While Sprint and Verizon deploy EVDO wireless broadband (500kbps) and work on testing EVDO Revision A (1.5Mbps), TMobile is readying their own broadband launch here in the states sometime this month. While they’re offering HSDPA wireless broadband i..

CNN reporters create a Web hurricane:

Blog: A CNN meteorologist reporting on Hurricane Katrina has created a storm of his own, this one centered in the blogosphere. …

m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software). m0n0wall is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a web [...]

UltimaGuy writes “Linux-watch has a humorous article about the top 5 reasons for not using Linux. It does provoke some thought aside from bringing a smile to our lips :)”Five Reasons Not to Use Linux

nazarijo writes “The field of investigative forensics has seen a huge surge in interest lately, with many looking to study it because of shows like CSI or the increasing coverage of computer-related crimes. Some people see a career opportunity there, and are moving toward computer forensics, marrying both law enforcement and investigations with their interest [...]

Governments that use RSS to deliver information to citizens using RSS feeds can also leverage VoiceXML, an open standard for developing telephony applications, to expose RSS content via cellular and traditional telephones.VoiceXML is a web technology that can turn any telephone, even a rotary phone, into an Internet device…. However, instead of pointing a client-side web browser at a specific URI, citizens can access a VoiceXML application by calling a toll free telephone number from any ordinary telephone - cellular or traditional, touch-tone or rotary.It’s not hard to think of a scenario where a local government or a university could publish an RSS feed with topical news, and have a phone number for students or citizens to call for more information.

It goes into a good amount of depth.“The X Window System (commonly referred to as X or X11) is a network-transparent graphical windowing system based on a client/server model…. Although it was developed in 1984, X is not only still viable but also is in fact the standard environment for Unix windowing systems.”

CMDLINE: Unique process listing tool for…:

CMDLINE (free): Unique process listing tool for Windows uses undocumented technique to reveal full commandlines with all parameters

ADVANCED PROCESS MANIPULATION (free): Allows unique control…:

ADVANCED PROCESS MANIPULATION: Allows unique control over target processes by literally becoming a part of them

OPEN PORTS: Allows you to see…:

OPEN PORTS (free): Allows you to see all open TCP and UDP ports on your system, including the owner process

Microsoft investigates another IE flaw reportPublished: August 29, 2005, 10:30 PM PDTBy Joris Evers Staff Writer, CNET News.comTrackBackPrintE-mailTalkBack
A new, unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer could let miscreants surreptitiously run malicious code on Windows PCs, according to the discoverer of the bug.
The problem affects Internet Explorer 6–the latest version of Microsoft’s Web browser–on computers running Windows [...]

Apple Hedges Its Bet on New Intel Chips

Corrado writes “The Mercury News is reporting that Apple is still planning to use PowerPC chips well into 2008 for its low end and portable systems. Does this increase the “warm fuzzes” for the Intel move? More information from TheStreet and lots more links from Google News.”

OpenBSD-based web application firewall:

Srebrenko Sehic writes:
Just wanted to let you guys know that Armorlogic is using OpenBSD as the core of it’s new web application firewall product called Profense. When choosing an operating system to base Profense on, we didn’t even have to think about others. OpenBSD gives us complete freedom to re-use the code [...]

JBoss - A Developer’s Notebook:

Pankaj Kumar writes “Controversies aside, JBoss has emerged as a credible alternative to commercial J2EE App Servers for developing and deploying Java based server applications. Besides the usual advantages of open source and GPL licensing, what sets it apart is its JMX based microkernel, a light-weight framework to run independently developed [...]

City of New Orleans:

Multiple ways of looking at an impending natural disaster.

Microsoft Vows To Play Nice With Security Chip: