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Replacing GU10 Halogen lights with LEDs

Well the title says it all really. One of the Halogen bulbs in our kitchen blew a week ago and I've been looking around to find a replacement.

70% of the bulbs in our house are energy saving CFTs and we are quite proud of that fact, but I always …

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Wireless shopping mini update

  •   Fri 18 February 2011
  •   InfoSec

The wheels move slowly when it comes to spending money where I work, but I have just been approved to put in a mini order to test my wireless auditing components, to whit:

1 x Alfa AWUS051NH USB wireless card.

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Stunning video created using Kinect

  •   Fri 11 February 2011
  •   Gaming

Moullinex created this beautiful video using consumer software and a Kinect. Can your PS Move do this?

Here is an article on Kotaku detailing how it was done.

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Black Ops - First Strike first impressions

  •   Thu 03 February 2011
  •   Gaming

I spent some time in Combat Training last night with my brothers-in-law to orient myself on the 4 new maps that are part of the 1200MS point First Strike pack. Here are my first impressions

Kowloon

The first map we tried was Kowloon, and as a team death match map …

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"I hear him crying sometimes, he sounds just like a malfunctioning air conditioner"

  •   Thu 03 February 2011
  •   Gaming

Wireless auditing equipment woes

  •   Wed 02 February 2011
  •   InfoSec

*sigh* I knew this wasn't going to be easy when I started, but I didn't expect it to be this bad.

I discovered that the AWUS051NH I wanted to get is not supported under backtrack, and some kind souls in the GIAC mailing list suggested that the AWUS036NH would suit …

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Wireless auditing shopping list part 2

  •   Tue 25 January 2011
  •   InfoSec

Based on some feedback I got from the GIAC Advisory board the current list is as follows:

1 x Samsung NC10 netbook(Not the PLUS - V important as the the plus does not have an atheros chipset)

This will run backtrack Linux with the Linux based audition tools

3 x …

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"Sure it's unique, but so is an asbestos and bacon sandwich"

  •   Thu 20 January 2011
  •   Gaming

Revision for GPEN - Day 1

  •   Thu 20 January 2011
  •   InfoSec

This week I'm starting my revision for SEC560 and the GPEN cert. I'm currently just finishing the day 2 mp3 by Ed Skoudis, and considering it's just Ed talking through the slides I'm finding it as good as when I was in the class. There is lots of insight into …

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The PCI-DSS Song

  •   Tue 18 January 2011
  •   InfoSec

With thanks to Superconductor

Now we just need a thrash metal version to accommodate the rest of the infosec pros.

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