Holiday Wishlists It's amazing how hard it is to find a simple yet digital way to share gift wish lists with family and friends in the 21st century. I've had some form of a personal wish list publicly online since around 2002 I believe. It's always
Pic of the Month: Malfunctioning NIC driver Thought I'd test out Microsoft Windows Live Writer [http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/] which is rather slick and lightweight fat app for posting to a slew of different blogs. It has some nice functionality and will likely become my default posting app. Anyway, I had a laptop not
Setup for Using Your Verizon Wireless XV6700 Pocket PC Phone as an Internet Modem Setup for using your Verizon Wireless XV6700 phone as an Internet modem (using EV-DO or 1xRTT) over Bluetooth or USB with Windows XP (may work with Sprint PPC-6700 and other HTC phones as well) Update August 2009: Much of this information is out of date. Verizon Wireless now blocks you
Secure your Exchange incoming SMTP Here's a year-old paper I submitted to SANS for the GIAC GCWN Certification. It's is focused on using Exchange 2003, Windows 2003, and ISA 2004 to enable email gateway security features which in the past were only available on open source solutions. Creating a Hardened Internet
Working with NTP and Windows Time Service For the purposes of this document we will only be talking about Windows 2000 and newer Microsoft operating systems. We will also mostly assume that these computers are apart of the same domain, except where noted, as NTP is unmanaged in a non-domain environment and should just be setup for
Controlling Bandwidth For Your Wireless Network Using FreeBSD and DUMMYNET Scenario: you have a wireless AP that you allow someone to access. You don't have unlimited Internet bandwidth, so you want to limit your 'clients' bandwidth to your network and the Internet. You have a very low budget. You have a free weekend. You have an
Enabling Preshared Key IPSec: Network Encryption for a Home or Small Business Audience & Scenario: You have more then one computer on a small business or home network. Wireless may or may not be involved. All Computers (that you want to protect) are Windows 2000 or Windows XP. You would like to encrypt your file sharing and communication traffic between these Windows
XServer setup notes for remoting a FreeBSD box from a Windows PC Installing basic ports on your FreeBSD box These ports will aid in the following efforts: /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui * this should always be your first port. Install it, copy /usr/local/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile to /root, then edit the file and change the cvsup host name to the closest
Common Windows Ports (NT 4, 2000) common windows portsI needed to post this somewhere for quick referenceList of Ports Used by Windows NT 4.0/2000 services: Function Static ports -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Browsing UDP:137,138 DHCP Lease UDP:67,68 DHCP Manager TCP:135 Directory Replication UDP:138 TCP:139 DNS Administration TCP:135 DNS Resolution
MCSE, Italy, and Civilian Live I just finished my MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) certification on 2 April. On 6 April my ship, the USS Emory S. Land leaves for Italy, with a weekend in Spain on the way. I will be in Italy until I exit the Navy between July and Sept. '99.