- Yellow Bamboo Association – unlock your inner power. Be sure to take a look at The Power of Yellow Bamboo (qt)
- phoot.org – great photos, questionable usability
Category: Legacy
I’ve been pretty apathetic about the Google Calculator (unlike err, some people), but I just realized that the Google Calculator now means that my hiptop (or any other mobile device with access to Google) that doesn’t have a built in calculator now has one (as long as they have digital service available).
Stolen Segway – recovered at Starbucks as part of a NYPD sting coordinated and planned by Segway HT owners. (via Jaime)
Webloggers deal Harvard blog-bores a black eye (hilarity via Nick)
“Apologies to the 90% of the audience at this thing who will likely be reporters for magazines and websites, their fees paid by their respective editors to Find Out What The Kids Are Up To These Days, but I not only am not going to this thing, but publicly and pre-emptively pity anyone in that remaining 10% who would actually pay that much to do so.”
I hadn’t even heard about this before reading this, and from the looks of things, I’m not missing anything special.
Microsoft abandons Outlook Express – now, one’s beginning to see a pattern emerging here… It’s pretty clear that MS is wrapping these projects up one-by-one as it moves towards a subscription model. (you don’t think they really canned HailStorm do you? it’s undergoing rebranding)
fsh is a drop-in rsh-compatible replacement for ssh that automatically resuses ssh tunnels.
- Windows 2000 IP filtering – straightforward tutorial for using built in IPSec for port filtering
- Windows 2000 Firewall
iptables is much better/easier to set up, but you take what you can get. Use nmap to check it’s working
A More User-Friendly Direction – on making a more usable computer. Unless you think that someone should be expected to know that they need to patch their DCOM RPC interface when all he/she wants to do is get some work done.
Unix Swiss Army Knife – Stupid bash Tricks – has a few often used patterns.
TCPView is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. On Windows NT, 2000 and XP TCPView also reports the name of the process that owns the endpoint. TCPView provides a more informative and conveniently presented subset of the Netstat program that ships with Windows.