The folks over at Spread Firefox are trying to get themselves into the Guinness World Records, to do this they need your help. The attempt is pretty simple, All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours.
I personally will be downloading and installing to a few computers.
Myth: Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth all the time for it’s own purposes.
Facts: Many technical sites and blogs have claimed this will increase your internet connection speed and that Windows always reserves 20 percent of the available bandwidth for QoS. This is entirely wrong. As in Windows 2000, programs can take advantage of QoS through the QoS APIs in Windows XP. 100% of the network bandwidth is available to be shared by all programs unless a program specifically requests priority bandwidth.
Windows XP Quality of Service (QoS) enhancements and behavior
Well if you use Debian or Ubuntu is would suggest looking into that conf, apparently PRNG (Pseudo Random Number Generator) is predictable and installing a patch isn’t good enough to fix this problem. After installing the patch you will need to regenerate your keys.
All OpenSSH and X.509 keys generated on such systems must be considered untrustworthy, regardless of the system on which they are used, even after the update has been applied.
USN-612-1: OpenSSL vulnerability
DSA-1571-1 OpenSSL – Predictable Random Number Generator
This is a Live CD for Wireless Auditing, it is apparently one that the FBI uses for various purposes. It doesn’t work with Intel B/G wireless cards (IPW2200). Basically all you need do is burn this to a CD and boot your system with wireless card using this CD. Then follow the software to get a WEP key from a network using WEP.
Now most sites would provide you with a link to downloads from rapid share, however I’m not for one reason, this was a pain in the ass to download off rapid share. So instead here is a ED2k link for eMule.
ED2K Wireless Auditing Live-CD (Supposide FBI Edition)
I got this from a link on RapidFind, the RapidShare links can be found there if you want those. If you do download it from RapidShare you won’t be able to extract it with a RAR utility until you rejoin the files together using hjsplit. I don’t know who the tool was that made the RAR archive but if he was going to upload it to RapidShare he should have just used a RAR program to split the file it would have been easier. Oh yes the ED2K Link above is actually the joined version so you can just extract that.
There is now a new version of Real Alternative, version 1.80. Yes I was a little slow in seeing that this had been updated but I had other things to do. An extra note, this version has been built on a Windows XP Service Pack 3 install.
Downloads
Details on the build process can be found here at my first Real Alternative 1.75 MSI Install.
After the delay in Windows XP Service Pack 3, Microsoft has pulled Windows Vista Service Pack 1 from their update site as well now. Apparently both updates come loaded with a fault that will cause Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, to corrupt data, bad news if you run this product. But wait a second who actually uses this product, I hadn’t even heard of it until they halted release of Service Pack 3 for XP. Obviously Microsoft testing process isn’t up to scratch. (Probably none of the beta testers used this product)
Looks like Microsoft has found a problem with it’s RTM version of Windows XP Service Pack 3. Microsoft is claiming that there is a compatibility problem between computers with the service pack installed and Microsoft‘s Dynamics Retail Management System. This fault has also been noted in Windows Vista Service Pack 1, but that has already been made publicly available. In the case of Windows XP Service Pack 3, Microsoft has chosen to delay the public release so that it can be fixed.
Coverage:
This is a really cool version of chess, it shows you what the computer is thinking when it moves, while it could kill the challenge. It gives you an idea of how the AI works.
So I’ve now got my hands on Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), which was released on April 21st 2008. April 21st 2008 was the Release To Manufacturers (RTM) by Microsoft, SP3 will be released to everyone else on the 29th April 2008.
Here is the file information for the RTM version:
| Size | : |
316MB
331805736 Bytes |
| File Name | : | WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe |
| MD5 | : | BB25707C 919DD835 A9D9706B 5725AF58 |
| SHA-1 | : | C81472F7 EEEA2ECA 421E116C D4C03E23 00EBFDE4 |
| SHA-256 | : | 62E524A5 52DB9F6F D22D4690 10EA4D7E 28EE06FA 615A1C34 362129F8 08916654 |
| SHA-512 | : | 976C8959 44CD23EB 9D4FB021 D17B531E 938845D2 251508AF BBDF3216 9CEC39E5 DC38517E AFC57FFA 7918A518 FF480AFF 58071FD5 C955E1B6 9D5CA7BE C4F09D1E |
| Size-64 | : | 00000000 13C6F428 |
| ED2k | : | 8943241A2282E06240165A68B7F39F69 |
| Direct Download | : |
Windows XP SP3 Public Release Delayed
Even though the public release is delayed Microsoft has the download on their site. See above.
Microsoft has now officially released Windows XP Service Pack 3, so we can probably assume that they have fixed the little bug they had.
Here is a handy tool bar, yes one thats actually useful, unlike search engine tool bars. McAfee SiteAdvisor is a tool bar that attempts to offer protection from Adware, Spam, Viruses, and Online Scams.
Features:
Not to mention it works in Firefox and Internet Explorer.