Jul 23
Today is day 2 with my Xeperia X10 and it is an amazing phone, sng that there is so much that the phone does I am going to be playing all weekend with the phone.
The screen is amazing and full scree video is a joy to watch. Camera is good quality and the andrd market interface is so much easier than the iPhone .
The only bummer is that it is runnib Anxroid 1.6, but this is being udated in Q4. So not such big deal.
I will post up more as I play.
Jul 9
I was watching HAK5 on REV3 last week and they mentioned a tool called the preyroject.
What the prey does is runs a piece of software on your PC/MAC/Linux computer that communicates back to your account at www.preyproject.com so in the event you computer is stollen or lost you can connect to the website and tell your laptop it is lost.
When you set this setting the Prey software starts to send you back information regarding your missin laptop such as LAN and WAN IP addresses, running processes, logged in users, screen shots and a photo from the webcam if you have one.
The software will also try to geotag you location via GPS or wireless acces point. The software will also try to connect to the Internet via open AP’s if it is not already connected to the internet.
You can also have the software place a popup on screen and have a buzzer sound every report interval, but this may just infuriate whoever has stollen you computer and have it end up in the bin.
It installed on my macbook really easily and registers with just a quick submission of your preyproject.com credentials. I have yet to test installing it on Windows or Linux, but plan to when I get a chance.
The awesome bit about the software is that it is written in BASH so it is very portable. It was also announced that there is a version available now for the Aindroid platform, which I am excited about for when I get my new Smartphone in the next few months as it seems like a perfect place for this software on a mobile phone.
Make sure you check out HAK5 as well as it is always full of cool tools like this every week.
I have just installed google chrome via yum on my Fedora 12 Desktop.
This is done by adding a repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d called chromium.repo
This file should contain the following:
[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
Once this is installed run the command yum install chromium and yum will go off and fetch the RPMS and dependancies required to install chrome on you fedora 12 machine.
I had a look at the repo and there are also packages there for Fedord 13 for the brave (there is only 15 days to go). So this should work for F13 as well.
I followed a tutorial for installing Fedora 11/12 which has some more detail. You can get to the article here.
Had to test specific messages from a sendmail mail queue at work today and had to try to work out what was holding up the mail queue.
Here are the commands I was using:
To send messages with a specific message id:
sendmail -v -qI
To send messages with a specific recipient:
sendmail -v -qS
To send messages with a specific sender:
sendmail -v -qR
The substrings can be partial of the information that you are searching for. For example if you are looking to have all email being sent to a specific domain sent from the queue you would execute:
sendmail -v -qRdomain.com
Make sure that you have NO space between the switches and you substring. If you do have a space I found that sendmail will try to send the entire queue rather that the messages that you are trying to release from the queue.
I found this in a freebsd mailing list thread here.
I have an issue where I get slack with my email and do not stay on top of things. Especially in accounts where I get a lot of mailing list traffic. I wanted to clean out a whole heap of this and found a really quick way to make use of the filters in Gmail to mark the messages.
It is really simple.
Goto ‘Create a filter’ which is next to the search bar.
In the ‘Has the words’ section add in is:unread
When you hit next you will be prompted with the dialogue box bellow.
Click ‘Ok’ on the dialogue box and move on to the next screen.
Select the ‘Mark as read’ tick box as well as the ‘Also apply filter to’ tick box next to the ‘Create filter’ button.
And there you are done. Don’t forget to go through and delete the filter afterwards as if you don’t all mail will hit your inbox and be marked as read.
I found this on Lifehacker which is an awesome site and well worth following.
The the other week at my local train station I saw an interesting my machine for the MyKi RFID ticketing system. I looked at there site and it was already up and running on buses services in Warragul and Latrobe Valley and a few other places and I though hey that is kind of cool and wondered what information these things may have on them and for got about the pictures I took on my phone.
That was until I saw a MyKi unit on a tram in he city. Could this bee that there will be an option for an RFID ticket for Metro train, tram and bus services? Don’t know (if you know more info on this leave a comment) but now it has me concerned about if they will be getting rid of the mag swipe paper tickets that exist now.
When these are released I will be getting a MyKi just to see what information is being stored on these tickets and what the affects of cloning one would be as just because RFID tags are in your wallet or bag does not mean that your ticket can not be stolen now. Especially with the automatic top up of you credit from a debit or credit card. I can see fraud being an issue.
Also he privacy will be interesting with how much of your travel data and history this system will need to give you the best ticket. What will be the availability of this information for law enforcement and the general public? I certainly don’t want travel habits stored on a server I don’t have control of.
If any one has a looked into these MyKi card and the info on them let me know and I will discuss with you on how to get your stuff up on here so that people can make an informed decision about whether the MyKi ticketing solution is a solution that is safe enough for them.
Though if we are not given a choice you can always get a RFID blockind wallet from ThinkGeek check it out.
Picks of the Pay station:
Pics of the Scanner on the tram:
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