Monday, September 27, 2004
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Interesting Headlines
Today is the type of day I don't feel like typing let alone do much, so in turn check out the following news storys.
1) Creative Installs Spyware on Your PC
2) 3Com to Rival Cisco
3) Xbox 2 Design Pictures Leaked
4) Cisco Routers Get an Update
5) AOL Testing a Revamped Website
On another note, if you want to try out linux, you can get a free copy of Linspire by following the directions located below.
Linspire (formerly Lindows) is Linux with a pretty GUI so it’s supposedly easier to use. However, Linspire costs money even though Linux is free. So here’s a way to get Linspire for FREE!
1. Add Linspire to your shopping cart (Cost is $49.95).
2. On that page, click the Apply Coupon button.
3. When asked, enter the following coupon code: deviant9
4. Then click the Update button. This will apply a $49.95 discount!
6. Next, simply check out!
7. Once you have completed checking out, go download the .isos and burn them to a CD. (You can always find these files by logging into your account at http://my.linspire.com and clicking on the My Products link, and then CD Downloads. If you would prefer, you can also pay a few bucks to have CDs or the Retail Boxes shipped to you later.)
I'd like to thank Bluesnews.com, Slickdeals.net, KevinRose.com, ZDnet.com, and of course Slashdot.org for helping me find this storys and deals.
1) Creative Installs Spyware on Your PC
2) 3Com to Rival Cisco
3) Xbox 2 Design Pictures Leaked
4) Cisco Routers Get an Update
5) AOL Testing a Revamped Website
On another note, if you want to try out linux, you can get a free copy of Linspire by following the directions located below.
Linspire (formerly Lindows) is Linux with a pretty GUI so it’s supposedly easier to use. However, Linspire costs money even though Linux is free. So here’s a way to get Linspire for FREE!
1. Add Linspire to your shopping cart (Cost is $49.95).
2. On that page, click the Apply Coupon button.
3. When asked, enter the following coupon code: deviant9
4. Then click the Update button. This will apply a $49.95 discount!
6. Next, simply check out!
7. Once you have completed checking out, go download the .isos and burn them to a CD. (You can always find these files by logging into your account at http://my.linspire.com and clicking on the My Products link, and then CD Downloads. If you would prefer, you can also pay a few bucks to have CDs or the Retail Boxes shipped to you later.)
I'd like to thank Bluesnews.com, Slickdeals.net, KevinRose.com, ZDnet.com, and of course Slashdot.org for helping me find this storys and deals.
Monday, September 13, 2004
Technical Difficulties
I must say sorry to those who have visited this blog lately as I finally did some work to tweak a new template I recieved from http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/ to something I like and hope everyone will like. During this process some of the code got messed up and the blogs did not display. If you are reading this, that means the problem is fixed and I are very sorry for the inconvience.
Friday, September 10, 2004
School and Hacking
It wierd how things work out. Yesterday at 7:45 am I attend Erie 1 Boces' Harkness program. Not sure why but the program I'm going for is Cisco Networking Academy (guess people telling me it is worth $200,000 in the workforce drew me in). Anyways I figured another boring day at school but to my amazement I was wrong. Instead the teacher was totally awesome and I spent most of my time trying to find ways around Harkness' Security Policy. And indeed we did (we meaning me and my friend Dave). Dave started out by find an open admin account that required no password but it's name wasn't Administrator. The we tried to get past the blocked websites by using a proxy but that didn't work.
Instead Dave insisted on moving along to finding a way to retrive and send email using his GaWab account. So he started off with Outlook express and got that working. In the mean time I figured that if this info got out and they realised what we were doing to get our mail they would block Outlook somehow. So I moved on to plan "b". Plan "B" consisted of find a way to view web-based email using IE (since Harkness will not allow you to use another browser since there security was built around IE. Do you see something wrong with that picture. I sure as hell do. It's f***ing Internet Explorer, the most useless Microsoft program ever (and it's filled with security holes of it's own). Anyways I found that stmp.gawab.com and pop3.gawab.com allowed perfect access to gawab account even though they blocked the main site gawab.com. Next in line was walla.com which to by amazement they didn't block to begin with. So now I still have to figure out yahoo, msn, gmail, aol, and the rest of the gang. As well as finding a way to get to website I want to without the filter realising it.
So if anyone has any other ideas let me know. And yes Dave tried using telnet to login to a shell account and work that way but that is making very slow progress to the point were we are better off not using it.
Instead Dave insisted on moving along to finding a way to retrive and send email using his GaWab account. So he started off with Outlook express and got that working. In the mean time I figured that if this info got out and they realised what we were doing to get our mail they would block Outlook somehow. So I moved on to plan "b". Plan "B" consisted of find a way to view web-based email using IE (since Harkness will not allow you to use another browser since there security was built around IE. Do you see something wrong with that picture. I sure as hell do. It's f***ing Internet Explorer, the most useless Microsoft program ever (and it's filled with security holes of it's own). Anyways I found that stmp.gawab.com and pop3.gawab.com allowed perfect access to gawab account even though they blocked the main site gawab.com. Next in line was walla.com which to by amazement they didn't block to begin with. So now I still have to figure out yahoo, msn, gmail, aol, and the rest of the gang. As well as finding a way to get to website I want to without the filter realising it.
So if anyone has any other ideas let me know. And yes Dave tried using telnet to login to a shell account and work that way but that is making very slow progress to the point were we are better off not using it.
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Welcome to my Masterful Mind
To all those that are viewing this new blog, I must say thank you. You are the lucky ones that will be with me thru my last year of high school and on. Make yourself at home and I hope you find some of this information useful.
In addition I will also be adding some new graphcis and stuff to spice things up as well as free stuff I find useful and possibly free gmail accounts.
In addition I will also be adding some new graphcis and stuff to spice things up as well as free stuff I find useful and possibly free gmail accounts.
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