Here is a great video to explain the path a packet travels to bring you information on the Internet. Warriors of the Net  

The purpose of this tool is to help software developers, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and IT Professionals better understand changes in Windows systems’ attack surface resulting from the installation of new applications. You can download it here.

I finally soloed on July 30th, 2012. It was the most amazing feeling ever. It’s hard to describe but I can say it was the best day of my life.   Video file is here

Here is how to check and disable the linux firewall. service iptables status service iptables stop chkconfig iptables off Now of course it’s better to leave them on and open ports but if you have a firewall in front of your systems or for troubleshooting this can help. Enjoy!

Here is a link to an article on TUAW that lists a nice primer on what types of things you can say to SIRI on the iPhone 4s. If you know of any others please let me know and I will be sure to list them here as well.

A great read about 15 things we should let go of in life so that we may be truly happy. Take a few minutes to read it and change your life. Link to the article

Make sure you read all to the end! The narrative is a classic. They must train with Westjet. WHAT A PITY KULULA DOESN’T FLY INTERNATIONALLY – WE SHOULD SUPPORT THEM IF ONLY FOR THEIR HUMOUR – SO TYPICALLY SOUTH AFRICAN.   Kulula is an Airline with head office situated in Johannesburg . Kulula airline attendants […]

You can do this with a bootable Windows PE USB stick or by using Windows RE. You can start Windows RE by booting the Windows Vista or Windows 7 setup DVD and then selecting “Repair” instead of “Install Windows.” By the way, you can’t use the Windows XP boot CD for this purpose because its Recovery Console […]

SYDI is the open source project aimed to help you to document your network. SYDI consists of a collection of scripts which collects information from your servers and networks, then writes the data to a report. There are scripts to document Windows Machines, Exchange, SQL, and Linux. It works really slick. Give it a try. […]