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So, I’ve been invited to a “rollout party” for Verizon Broadband here in Huntsville.  It was implemented yesterday for public use, but it is still being tested and configured, so it isn’t fully reliable yet.  The official rollout is next week sometime.  Verizon is inviting businesses to the Space and Rocket Center for a show and tell.  Below is a topic schedule.  If any of you want any specific info for the future in Texarkana let me know and I’ll post what I find out.  I think I’ve heard it is coming to T’town in the next year, right?  I’ve used it down the Birmingham area not too long ago and it was great (fast and reliable even when driving down the interstate).

EVENT SCHEDULE 

Registration & Breakfast
7:30am - 8:00am 

Announcement
8:00am - 8:30am 

Technology Demonstrations
8:30am - 8:45am 

Vertical Market Solutions
8:45am - 9:15am 

BroadbandAccess - You Drive!
Hands-on demonstrations
9:15am - 10:00am

I know we have been getting TONS of SPAM lately and it’s good to know that someone has taken the time to research and explain the reason behind it all.

http://www.mostlygeek.com/2006/11/21/…./

If you’re not subscribed to this RSS feed, then you definitely need to be.

It has been quite some time since I did any serious wardriving. I used to use NetStumbler on my Windows XP laptop but when I started using FreeBSD I never really did any wardriving, just the occasional snooping with Kismet. It’s been well over a year since I did the whole wardriving thing with a GPS and everything… and that’s too long!

When I was doing my wardriving in Windows I used NetStumbler, as I stated before, and a Garmin eTrex Legend handheld GPS to capture the GPS coordinates every time a wireless network was detected. I used the GPS data to make custom Google Maps of my journeys.

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Last night, my brother-in-law, Caleb, a.k.a. Nfinight, and I got down on some Battlefield 2142, and when we play, we get on my TeamSpeak server so we can talk to each other even though we are playing in different rooms of the house.

Well, Caleb’s PC headset has somehow been destroyed so I loaned him my Xbox headset adapter that allows you to plug your Xbox headset in to your PC for a mic and headphone(s). Since he was using my normal rig I had to come up with something quick to be able to talk to him. Here’s the snazzy scenario!

I paired my Plantronics Voyager 510 with my MacBook via Bluetooth®, fired off TeamSpeex, a Mac OS X version of the TeamSpeak client, changed the input and output to my Bluetooth® headset, and I was on my way.

My office is kind of messy and where my gaming rig is I didn’t have enough room to place the MacBook on my desk… Good thing I was using Bluetooth® which is supposedly good for up to 30-35 feet! I put my MacBook on the other desk in my office and talked to Caleb like it was nothing. Some times I just have to use my brain a little and this time it paid off.

The MacBook, Bluetooth® technologies, and TeamSpeak equaled a great team based gaming experience when hardware and space resources were low!

Until next time…

I’ve got three links for ya. 2 of them cover software for Apple laptops that help with recovering stolen laptops.

The third is an article, with video, about a college professor whose laptop was recently stolen and makes up a story to get it back. I haven’t watched the video but supposedly it’s pretty entertaining.

Commercial software to help recover your stolen laptop
Home-brewed script to help recover your stolen laptop
Funny article/video

Here’s a quick rundown on what’s new

Cain & Abel v4.1 released
New features:
- Cain’s MitM NTLM Challenge Spoofing. (Requires APR to be active and a MitM condition between victim hosts).
You can now spoof server challenges in NTLM authentications; this feature enables the use of RainbowTables for cracking network hashes.
WARNING !!! Enabling Challenge Spoofing cause users to fail authentications so use it carefully.
- NTLM Session Security authentications downgrade to LM&NTLMv1. The following protocols are supported: SMB, DCE/RPC, TDS, HTTP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP.
- LM + spoofed challenge Hashes Cryptanalysis via Sorted Rainbow Tables.
- HALFLM + spoofed challenge Hashes Cryptanalysis via Sorted Rainbow Tables.
- NTLM + spoofed challenge Hashes Cryptanalysis via Sorted Rainbow Tables.
- New types of RainbowTables have been added to Winrtgen v2.2.
“lmchall” and “ntlmchall” tables can be used against LM and NTLM response hashes for spoofed challenges (0×1122334455667788).
“halflmchall” tables can be used against the first 8 bytes LM response hashes for spoofed challenges to recover the first 7 characters of the original password.

Looks interesting … I’ll definitely be playing around with some of the new features.

http://www.oxid.it/index.html

Well the Wii launched yesterday, and while not as big a deal for most as the 360 or PS3…apparently there were lots of people eager to get these systems also. Of course the new Nintendo was not without it’s own problems. Here are a couple short articles from IGN…

http://wii.ign.com/articles/746/746801p1.html

http://wii.ign.com/articles/746/746907p1.html 

This is mostly for Jason.

http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/the-sidekick…

I’ve always liked the look of the Sidekicks. Do you think an unlocked one would work with Cingular’s service?

It is just unreal to see how popular the PS3 has become and how outrageous the prices are.  BUT….ya know, I was wondering, and a friend and I discussed it this weekend.  I wonder if the “shortage” was all a marketing plan by Sony.  Look at the publicity that this whole ordeal has generated.  There’s no way Sony or anyone could ever buy that kind of marketing or advertising.  With the whole “shortage” and camping out and outrageous prices on the internet, it was being talked about on EVERY single radio station in America, it was on every single news channel, every single message board, every single blog (average admins included, haha), and every single chat room, etc, etc.  Everyone in America was talking about it.  That’s pretty good free advertisement….and the people that haven’t been able to get their hands on one I’m sure will end up getting one, plus all the other tons of people that have been sucked in by all of the talk and hooplah.  Might not have been a bad idea to have  a “shortage” after all.  Maybe it takes a little trickery to get people to buy a $600 video gaming system.  That’s just my 2 cents.

Hmm….What would you do?

It seems that over the weekend I am no longer able to access the Dashboard of the blog administration section. I also get 0 bytes returned to the browser after making a post. I just disabled automatically notifying rpc.pingomatic.com when a post is made and the trackback feature for links in average admins posts.

Anyway, here goes… I’m trying to test one theory: The page craps out when trying to contact other sites, i.e. when pulling RSS feeds from other sites for the Dashboard or when trying to notify ping services of a new post or other blogs of trackbacks.

Testing…