I have searched a couple of times over the last few years for a discussion forum or other online help for supporting our Executone phone system. We’ve been doing self-support for about 3 years, and can handle most of the… Read More »Excellent Phone Tech Support Bulletin Board
My household has been rocking down to O-zone’s “Dragostea Din Tei“, and I’ve been thinking “I could have written this with one hand tied behind my back”. No really, I could have – back in college I had a rockin’… Read More »Music – open source and/or free
Honeynet has an interesting article online comparing the “life expectancy” of unpatched systems. Apparently, the mean time before compromise of Linux has gone from 3 days to 3 months! While Windows have gone from days to hours or even minutes… Read More »honeypots & life expectancy
VNC to SWF sounds like the open source equilivent of a rough version of RoboDemo…. It lets you record screen activity to a shockwave file via VNC. I was unsucessful in my attempts to get this running on my OS… Read More »‘Easy’ screen recording with VNC to SWF
VNC to SWF sounds like the open source equilivent of a rough version of RoboDemo…. It lets you record screen activity to a shockwave file via VNC. I was unsucessful in my attempts to get this running on my OS… Read More »‘Easy’ screen recording with VNC to SWF
I’ve stumbled across a fix for the IDN spoofing bug (it lets websites look like another site – ie: hacker site appears to be paypal….) that uses Adblock, which I already use and am a big fan of. I’d definitely… Read More »Fix for Firefox IDN spoofing
So I ran across the Linksys NSLU2 at ThinkGeek today. A perfectly simple device, it has an Ethernet port and 2 USB 2.0 ports. You can plug in UBS drives (or a memory key) and make it available over the… Read More »Network storage made cheap and easy?
I’ve been shopping for a new phone, and one of my considerations (although low on the list) was getting one that would work with Cingular’s Fast Forward Service. None of the phones I like work with the service, so I… Read More »An interesting Cell to landline adapter
BBC is reporting on MIT’s Media Labs’ attempt to produce a very inexpensive laptop, predominantly aimed at education in the 3rd world. It’s being aimed at a textbook replacement. They only envision selling in in very large lots (millions) to… Read More »Sub $100 laptop for Education?
After reading about PhoneLabs’ Dock ‘n’ Talk in a Slashdot thread, I came also came across Telular Corporation. They make enterprise versions of cell to landline converters that are designed to be integrated with a company’s PBX. You could use… Read More »Enterprise cell to landline adapter