visited zoo with dolphins & sharks

For future reference I've posted some helpful texts

Good starting point for learning about recommended group policy settings in Windows 2000/2003

Zipped PDFs

I've been trying to find a tool to write blogs offline with. I'm using the first now - w.bloggar. The other tool that I might try is Zempt

There's also some comments around of a plugin for RssBandit that is included with dasBlog in the sourcecode - I'll dig around tomorrow.

Any how if you want to use w.bloggar with dasBlog here's how to configure it.

This is Thunder, my sister's dog

Found serveral bugs in dasBlog causing emails to be incorrectly processed.

Useful site that can check your mail via the web and requires no registration.

Useful site that will test your mail server without the normal restrictions that some sites impose.

My first blog via phone mms

Pipe command line output to clipboard - pretty cool & oh so simple

One weekend off playing FarCry and I've dropped right down the world ranking!!!

Availability stats - 13/09/2004 to 19/09/2004

As seems the tradition with all gamers here's my system spec.

The purpose of this article is not to teach you how to hack sites, but to show you some scenarios that may reveal to you how vulnerable your existing site may be, or will hopefully help you prevent any future sites from having these vulnerabilities.

Last months hosting stats.

Weekly report between 06/09/2004 and 12/09/2004

The early growth of Linux synergized with another phenomenon: the public discovery of the Internet. The early 1990s also saw the beginnings of a flourishing Internet-provider industry, selling connectivity to the public for a few dollars a month. Following the invention of the World-Wide Web, the Internet's already-rapid growth accelerated to a breakneck pace.

Into the gap left by the Free Software Foundation's uncompleted HURD had stepped a Helsinki University student named Linus Torvalds. In 1991 he began developing a free Unix kernel for 386 machines using the Free Software Foundation's toolkit. His initial, rapid success attracted many Internet hackers to help him develop Linux, a full-featured Unix with entirely free and re-distributable sources.

By 1984, when Ma Bell divested and Unix became a supported AT&T product for the first time, the most important fault line in hackerdom was between a relatively cohesive ``network nation'' centered around the Internet and USENET (and mostly using minicomputer- or workstation-class machines running Unix), and a vast disconnected hinterland of microcomputer enthusiasts.

So matters stood in 1980; three cultures, overlapping at the edges but clustered around very different technologies. The ARPANET/PDP-10 culture, wedded to LISP and MACRO and TOPS-10 and ITS and SAIL. The Unix and C crowd with their PDP-11s and VAXen and pokey telephone connections. And an anarchic horde of early microcomputer enthusiasts bent on taking computer power to the people.

The year of ARPANET's birth was also the year that a Bell Labs hacker named Ken Thompson invented Unix.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. The Signals and Power committee of MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club adopted the machine as their favorite tech-toy and invented programming tools, slang, and an entire surrounding culture that is still recognizably with us today. These early years have been examined in the first part of Steven Levy's book Hackers.

I explore the origins of the hacker culture, including prehistory among the Real Programmers, the glory days of the MIT AI Lab, and how the early ARPANET nurtured the first network nation. Storm clouds over Jupiter. I describe the early rise and eventual stagnation of Unix, the new hope from Finland, and how `the last true hacker' became the next generation's patriarch. I sketch the way Linux and the mainstreaming of the Internet brought the hacker culture from the fringes of public consciousness to its current prominence.

Contrary to popular myth, you don't have to be a nerd to be a hacker.

Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you have to behave as though you have this kind of attitude yourself. And to behave as though you have the attitude, you have to really believe the attitude.

There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments.

The graphic at the top of the page is called a glider. It's a pattern from a mathematical simulation called the Game of Life.

Whilst the concept of using a DMZ is sound, the implementation is often a cause for concern.

I wrote this text to inform noobies or just plain dumb ass's what the different types of hacker are.