Prospective students who used a flaw posted in online discussion forums to access the ApplyYourself service will not be attending Harvard or MIT anytime soon. From the Boston.com article: ‘Schmalensee said he made his decision to reject the 32 applicants… Read More »Harvard and MIT sat “No Way” to hackers
Prospective students who used a flaw posted in online discussion forums to access the ApplyYourself service will not be attending Harvard or MIT anytime soon. From the Boston.com article: ‘Schmalensee said he made his decision to reject the 32 applicants… Read More »Harvard and MIT sat “No Way” to hackers
Kerry Garrison has an interesting tutorial on using Asterisk@Home on his website. The best bit for me was his suggestion for getting Digium Wildcard X100P FXO cards on eBay for $6.95 each…. I’m still researching the MultiVoIP MVP210 I’ve got… Read More »Building Your Own PBX with Asterisk@Home
Cool Solutions strikes again with a great document on authenticating SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 and NLD to eDirectory via LDAP. I’ve had this project on the “back burner” for some time now in conjunction with LTSP, and this walkthrough… Read More »Authenticating SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 and NLD to eDirectory via LDAP
Here is an interesting idea on logging student (or user) computer useage from the login script. It’s one of those ideas that’s so simple you wonder why you didn’t think of it.
Firefox has released version 1.0.1, which fixes the IDN spoofing issue, as well as about a dozen other security issues, and added some performance enhancements. Right now it’s a manual install, and sounds fairly tricky. You may want to stick… Read More »Firefox IDN update
A couple of posts ago, I talked about mounting .iso files as virtual CDs, but what if you want to burn that file to a CD in order to give it to a friend? (only legal software like Linux distros,… Read More »‘easy bake’ .ISO’s to CDLinux and Windows
A couple of posts ago, I talked about mounting .iso files as virtual CDs, but what if you want to burn that file to a CD in order to give it to a friend? (only legal software like Linux distros,… Read More »‘easy bake’ .ISO’s to CDLinux and Windows
Andrew White has posted another excellent article @ Novell Cool Solutions on registry hacks for administering student PCs. He calls them ‘draconian”, but I think they’re very insightful.
Just a quick update on Asterisk@Home. 1st – they have come out with two new versions since I’ve given it a go – I’m downloading v6 as we speak. 2nd – Install was no problem, I got it up and… Read More »Asterisk@Home follow-up