March, 2008

on 2008/03/29 by Michael, [Security, blog]

I’ve noticed that more and more magazine shops have started to carry “hacking” magazines like 2600: The Hacker Quarterly and today I saw Hakin9 2/2008 at Sim Lim Square (and of course I bought myself a copy - I’ll let you know what I think of it once I’ve got to read it, but the [...]

on 2008/03/25 by Michael, [Linux / OSS, Security, blog]

I’ve been starting to record some screencasts, and this is what I used on the Microsoft Windows platform: CamStudio was used to capture the actual area of interest. It can record the screen either to a avi or swf file, where I always go for the avi format as it is easier to deal with at [...]

on 2008/03/20 by Michael, [blog]

Today I did something new: I gave a 90 minute presentation using only 8 slides without a single word written on them - basically a bunch of pictures only - and it worked out well. The Beyond Bullet Points and Presentation Zen reading seems to have been paying off. I am wondering if I should upload [...]

on 2008/03/18 by Michael, [Wiki updates, blog]

I got tired of providing free advertisement to the laptop hardware vendor where ever I go and decided to do something about it using custom laptop skins (instead of doing something drastic like re-painting your laptop). Sure, you can use a off-the-shelf laptop skin but it isn’t unique and sometimes it’s hard to find a [...]

on 2008/03/16 by Michael, [Cloudbook, EEE PC, blog]

The Everex Cloudbook has been seen as a very slow machine compared to the Asus EEE PC. How slow is it actually? Thanks to the nice folks over at http://digital.xy.hk/ and http://www.umpcfever.com/ we got this video showing the Cloudbook and EEE booting Windows XP side-by-side: Get the Flash Player to see this player. var FO = { [...]

on 2008/03/04 by Michael, [blog]

I got two older sites (securitytinker.com and proxy.11a.nu) which has some content I want to migrate over to this blog as well as to the wiki (depending on the content). So far the import process has been fighting against me every step of the way, and it seems like Drupal is a write-only CMS with [...]

on 2008/03/03 by Michael, [Cloudbook, Wiki updates, blog]

After reading up on the Cloudbooker forum on what other people are doing with their Cloudbooks I found out that the connector for the webcam is a standard USB connector, so I’ll just add a USB hub in there so I don’t need to run so many cables between the motherboard and the lid (just [...]