chaostables - Ideas for firewalling - how to outsmart, block, and confuse various scanning methods. Perfect for long winter evenings at the firewall (cancelled due to global warming).
Archive 8. January 2007
Look around you - I have to check it out. Sesame Street for adults and then in the style of Douglas Adams? Sounds like Nirvana.
Max (Macintosh Audio for OS X) - I should check that out, it could be an interesting alternative to simple iTunes ripping. On the other hand: the charm of iTunes lies precisely in its simplicity ...
Momofuku Ando - the inventor of instant noodles.
Nokia N800 is now public & available! - Wow! Now with built-in camera for video telephony over the internet. And of course still open source and Linux based, faster, cooler ...
Ophcrack - Crack NTLM password hashes using rainbow tables. Comes with a ready-made Linux live CD including the software and the tables.
Second life goes open source - first step the frontend. Yes, I am quite enthusiastic.
Skype for the Nokia Tablet - but only for the new N800. For the N770, there are already two VOIP clients with Googletalk and GizmoProject (and with GizmoProject also one that is based on standards). Nevertheless, it's nice to get the quite widespread Skype as an option, especially with the built-in cam in the N800.
What really happened on Mars? -- Authoritative Account - exciting report about a software bug in the Mars Pathfinder and how it was found and handled.