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Archive for July, 2009

DNS and you!

by Nick on Jul.31, 2009, under News, Security

Say what you want about Kaminsky. I mean, the man is crazy. However, being on call when your employer, a regional ISP, reboots both the primary and secondary DNS servers, makes you appreciate how important DNS is in the grand scheme of internet things. Granted, his attack is fairly novel, but yeah… I’m glad ISC makes updating BIND nice and easy.

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

by Nick on Jul.29, 2009, under News, Security

Where the hackers are crowing and exploits are flowing, seeding new ph34r.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
It’s the hap-happiest season of all,
when your software’s updating and admins are hating users not on the ball. It’s the hap-happiest season of all!

Seriously, can we spread out BH DefCon et al? I mean, not that I mind updating day after day…

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Don’t buy a Gateway Notebook!

by Nick on Jul.28, 2009, under Hardware, News

I bought a gaming laptop. I bought it thinking that I could do a lot with the nice, powerful chip that came with it. My first disappointment was the horribly outdated NVIDIA drivers that came with the laptop. I could not play WoW, at all. I found this odd for a gaming laptop. I could forgive them for giving me 4gigs of Ram, but a 32-bit operating system. My second is this, I cannot enable VT extensions on my CPU, even though it clearly supports it. I need to be able to run VMWare and/or VirtualPC for various work projects. This is highly disappointing. Ultimately, my prime gaming laptop may end up collecting dust in the closet, a constant reminder of why no one should buy Gateway.

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I’m playing with Windows Serve…

by Nick on Jul.27, 2009, under News, Twitter

I’m playing with Windows Server 2008 AND Dynamips. Will blog later.

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Jeepers creepers, I’ve got new…

by Nick on Jul.18, 2009, under News, Twitter

Jeepers creepers, I’ve got new peepers.

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VMWare Fusion is good stuff, n…

by Nick on Jul.17, 2009, under News, Twitter

VMWare Fusion is good stuff, now to get my Cisco on with DynaMips.

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Excederin is Mana from the God…

by Nick on Jul.15, 2009, under News, Twitter

Excederin is Mana from the Gods.

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QFT: http://zedshaw.com/blog/2…

by Nick on Jul.15, 2009, under News, Twitter

QFT: http://zedshaw.com/blog/2009-07-15.html

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Nick is playing with VMWare Fu…

by Nick on Jul.14, 2009, under News, Twitter

Nick is playing with VMWare Fusion. Also refers to himself in the third person.

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nick is breaking in his new ma…

by Nick on Jul.14, 2009, under News, Twitter

nick is breaking in his new mac at work. Sweet ride.

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