Random Musings - Day #365

Well final day of the year. Made about 900 quid, backing winner after winner. But my camera may have broke! Nevermind!
Roll on 2010! Gonna to change my random musings a bit... i.e. title. But going to be out and about in 2010. We shall see what happens this year.

Looking for the chart of the year 2009. The bigtop40

Random Musings - Day #364

Money talks are contrasting fortunes for the premiership leaders and bottom team.
Chelsea claim they are debt-free whereas Portsmouth have alledgedly been given a winding up order.

Statistics is only what you make of it. Chelsea are leading the premiership. But an interesting statistic states only 4 times in the last 15 years have the team leading at the new year gone on to win the premiership. But Chelsea have led twice at new years and gone on to win.

Is it me but the price of bananas has suddenly gone. You could get a bunch of 6 bananas for 60p. Now it is over a pound.

Law of Vulnerabilities as discussed by Qualys.
This RFC rfc2827 discusses ingress filtering for ISP's and companies for protection against DOS attacks, and would seem to be getting some attention again of late.

Splunk is software that indexes data from any application, server or network device enabling you to search and analyze billions of events across your IT infrastructure from one location in real time

ldd (ldd - list dynamic decrepency)

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/ldd-arbitrary-code-execution

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html

http://reverse.lostrealm.com/protect/ldd.html

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514408

Random Musings - Day #363

Tools

• Metasploit 3.3.3 guide guide and download


• OWASP Live CD Vulnerabilities


• Nessus Home or Professional Feed?


• Kismet


• New oWASP Top 10

Know your (web) tools

BeEF - Browser Exploitation Framework

Pretty Bad Proxies

Unbreakble THC

Rainbow tables

Metadata security

WPA cracked in 1 minute

iphone vulnerability

IMs dangerous

Blackberry testing

SSL Flaw

Countering Kernel Root kits with lightweight hook protection

'Gumblar' Attack Redirects Users' Web Searches

twitter-like app

Tigris issue

Fixing Sophos and heavyweight solutions to simple problems

McAfee EPolicy Orchestrator and ProtectionPilot HTTP Server Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

viewstate mangling

Salty md5s

AES and encryption described

Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates

Server-Gated Cryptography (IIS 6.0)

Random Musings - Day #362

Don't know why Molly Sims suddenly popped up in my facebook. Meanwhile cityofeternals is beginning to take off.

Some VMWare and Virtualisation links:

• Tripwire Config Check


• How virtualisation affects PCI DSS


• Free VM WARE Tools


• Hacking Tool Lets A VM Break Out And Attack Its Host

VNC issues:

• VNC Flaw Test


• RealVNC_4.1 Bypass (msf)


• Multiple VNC Client Vulnerabilities

Portable anti-virus on a stick solutions:

• ClamWin


• Naevius Antivirus


• TrustPoint AntiVirus


• Mx One Antivirus


• Portable AntiVirus

Random Musings - Day #361

Irony
Looks like Joe McElderry was merely delayed the inevitable as takes "the climb" up to #1. Certain amount of irony is that despite Rage against the machine denying him the topspot for the Christmas #1.
Also ironic is they have been showing clips of Michael Jackson announcing his "this is it" tour as his "final curtain call..." I'm afraid that was it!

Also never ask someone, "where you can find mr happy, in a store". Don't be surprised if someone removes their pants as a consequence!

Random Musings - Day #360

I went to see Charlton play and that was perhaps the craziest game of football I've ever seen. 2 players sent off for Charlton before half time. But it was still interesting as Charlton were 1-0 at half time, which meant they had something to play for. But 9 versus 11 was too much and were then 2-1 down. But right at the death, somehow managed to get an equaliser.

Here's some useful documents:

• Code of Connections (CoCo) Configuration Document


• VOIP Security Guidance from NSA


• ICSA Labs Product Assurance Report

Here's some news articles demonstrating all is not quite well with data leaking, etc.

Heartland Data Breach

Data Loss DB - Open Security Foundation

t-mobile sources and data leak

Bank gets trojaned

webhost attacks makes vmware virtually gone, which followed by an apparent suicide (Zero-Day really does kill!

Other Funny stories during the year:

• Eula are evil
  


• Active listening (listening for meaning)


• Hand the cash...
  


• Milf, a Bad acronym
  


• Butthole road


• Horse bites off one of man's testicles


• Dangerous Teaspoons

PCI Assessment (Poem)

And a poem, inspired by an PCI assessment...

Addicted to FTP, Don’t ask why
Your passwords are being sniffed
And your data is captured on the fly
So send your PAN’s in e-mails
Without any audit trails
Do not worry about PCI?
But do you care?
As you can lie
On your self assessment questionnaire

Random Musings - Day #359

Merry Christmas...
Just post some thoughts from a friend...

Top 10 reasons why you might be burnt out

1. "They told me at the blood bank this might happen."


2. "This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to."


3. "Whew! Guess I left the top off the white out. You probably got here just in time."


4. "I wasn't sleeping, I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm."


5. "I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance."


6. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress. Do you discriminate against people who practice Yoga?"


7. "Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem."


8. "The coffee machine is broken."


9. "Someone must have put decaf in the wrong pot."


10. " ... in God's name, Amen."

Work Ethics

• Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them.


• If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos...then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation.


• Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.


• A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat.


• Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.


• TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.


• The beatings will continue until morale improves.


• Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.


• We waste time, so you don't have to.


• Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!


• Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.


• A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.


• When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.


• INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.


• Aim Low, Reach Your Goals, Avoid Disappointment.

Random Musings - Day #358

Christmas Eve! It really annoyed me that the trains on Christmas finish early. Which cause a problem getting home for Christmas.

Anyhow many many links. Here's a few...

• IIS 6 Attack Could Let Hackers Snoop on Servers


• IIS 6.0 Webdav Unicode Vulnerability


• MSIE 0-day Spreading Via SQL Injection


• SQL Truncation Exploits


• Encrypting Connections to SQL Server


• secret questions analysis


• Attacks prompt Microsoft to fix Excel flaw


• pcAnywhere Allows Local Users to Become SYSTEM


• CVE-2005-1970 (Symantec pcAnywhere 10.5x and 11.x before 11.5 Caller Properties vulnerability)


• Cisco benchmark


• Catalyst Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) Configuration Example


• Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers


• Cisco Event Response: Semiannual Cisco IOS Software Advisory Bundled Publication

Random Musings - Day #357

I was wondering today if it was faster to get to Canary Wharf via DLR at Woolwich Arsenal or Greenwich from Woolwich Arsenal. The answer is slightly surprisingly via Greenwich. But it is only by a few minutes. In fact, you should change at Canning Town and get the jubilee line instead.

Also found this annoying... people who use two cards in the same cashpoint machine when there is a queue. It's just inconsiderate!

Random Musings - Day #356

Well couple days off and should do some shopping but that's hardly happening.
For now some computer links that may have put on in the past year...

LSA is the Local Security Authority. According to Microsoft, "LSA Authentication describes the parts of the Local Security Authority (LSA) that applications can use to authenticate and log users on to the local system. It also describes how to create and call authentication packages and security packages."

You come dump lsa secrets (which doesn't allow access from the administrator) using oxid.it's abel or nirsoft's lsasecretsdump.

The security identifier (sid) is Microsoft's way of uniquely defining things. Here's some well known SIDs.

LMHash is an old school Microsoft format that should be stopped and later editions of Windows do not have by default.

Random Musings - Day #355

Someone said they liked the Ski Sunday, which reminds to look a r&b song which I swear sampled not the actual ski sunday theme tune but the incidental music used to show the downhill course, etc.
Having a look at television tunes proved a bit fruitless. But I happened to stumbled an amazon remark made on the Richard X and Kelis mash-up song, "Finest Dreams".

The song is an interpolation of "The Finest" by The SOS Band c 1986 and "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" by The Human League, from the Dare album. (which incidentally was also used as the music for Ski Sunday some years ago.)

So it was an obscure Human League album track, The things that dreams are made of. A remix is seen here. I've found no reference to more recent sample of the riff in that song so maybe it was Kelis I was thinking of.

Random Musings - Day #354

So Rage against the Machine upset the odds and denied Joe McElderry the Christmas #1. The ironic thing is, Joe McElderry may still get to #1 next week.

More impressed with the final of "Move like Michael Jackson".

Also been having a look at beatboxing and scatting and variations like crimping.

Look at none of other than Justin Timberlake for not too shabby beatboxing. The guy's multi-talented. Also Ella Fitzgerald for scatting and Mighty Boosh for crimping.

Check out this scat battle

Random Musings - Day #353

Amazed that a team as sacked their manager despite losing only 2 league games and making it into a semi-final of the league cup. Whereas another team that has lost 7 times in the league and out of most cup competitions is still in charge. That's the craziness of the premiership!

Random Musings - Day #352

Looking for laptop hard drives and bits and pieces. I had a look at laptopbits and generally wasn't impressed how expensive is to get a replacement battery or power adaptor.
cough cpr heart attack

The race between Rage against the machine and Joe McElderry has well now gotten boring particularly as both acts are under the same label and hence will line Simon Cowells pockets even further. Shameful.

Random Musings - Day #351

Here's the windows password assessment (word doc)

Here's another way to crack the administrator password.

The Toshiba Portege uses the Escape key to boot into BIOS. Not impressed with that Toshiba as it appears you cannot disable devices used in boot up. More details can be found here

Random Musings - Day #350

Whilst watching the tv saw Teddy Sheringham playing poker finishing runner up in the partypoker world open heat.

Random Musings - Day #349

Here's the full list of week-by-week votes for x-factor. The funny thing is that Olly never top a single week whereas the one week Rachel survived the bottom two, she won that week.

The only pub in Pratt's Bottom is the Bulls Head. I went there around this time last year.

Random Musings - Day #348

Essential Hacking Tools, SQL Server Browser and Full list of SIP parameters

Random Musings - Day #347

It's been emotional. Joe McElderry won X-Factor. Cheryl Cole was always in tears.
Ryan Giggs caused a bit of a surprise by winning the Sports personalty of the year. But that might well have been eclipsed by Seve Ballestros who picked up the Lifetime achievement award despite being back in Spain. Remember he's come back from brain tumour. Also don't forget Major Phil Packer's run in the marathon for charity.
Ding Junhui captured the UK championship. Maybe this is the start of getting the sport of snooker all over the world, especially the far east!

Random Musings - Day #346

The duets for x-factor were slightly disappointing simply because they cut the songs in half, particularly the duets for Olly/Robbie and Joe/George. The final final will be between Olly and Joe. I still don't think it is clear cut as people think.

This would have been interesting fact to bat about in the FA Cup but Luton were unbeaten in 9 cup games until yesterday when they were defeated in the FA Trophy by Cambridge United.

Random Musings - Day #345

Funny, it's not the first time that Olly Murs has been on the tv!

Random Musings - Day #344

How to create Windows Service by using sc.exe

You had me at "Hello World"

Converting Java app into a windows service

Creating a simple win32 service in C++

tlist

Random Musings - Day #343

Been trying to find some useful documents for work. A good best practice site maybe at sans. Here's a comparison between OpenVPN and IPSec.

Random Musings - Day #342

Popeye's creator, E.C. Segar was celebrated by google as he was born today 115 years ago.

The X-Factor duets for this year's competition has been revealed. I was thinking if Joe got paired with George Michael, he would be nailed on to win it as they would probably sing "Don't let the sun go down on me"

Sure enough it is Joe and George. Meanwhile Olly teams up with Robbie Williams and Stacey teams up with Michael Buble.

Random Musings - Day #341

Looks like Barry Hearn is the new man in charge of World Snooker. This should in theory breathe new life into the game of snooker. Currently, there are only 6 ranking tournament and little to no coverage. The game can be variated along the same lines as cricket. Have a short game. Frames with 6 red balls. Best of 3 frame matches. A one-day knockout tournament with draw after every round. Bring back doubles tournament. Have a turbo/shot-clock tournament or even time limit match. Don't forget that Snooker is quite popular in the far east and I am sure there is still interest in Canada and perhaps USA.

I really enjoyed Ronnie O'Sullivan's remark about Barry Hearn's appointment.

He is the Ronaldinho of promoting

Interestingly enough, Steve Davis has a twitter.
Just got over the flu after a day. I am just run down with work atm but I think my RQ might be decent.

Oh yes, boobs are the way forward. Typically efficent, only the Germans would come up with a study that proves that staring at boobs is good for you.
Why are psychologists so pretty? I was watching the BBC the other day, their resident psychologist was pretty cute. But the best known psychologist is Dr Linda Papadopoulos.

OpenVPN uses SSL/TLS for encryption as part of its VPN. It uses
UDP 1194 as its negotiation service.

Random Musings - Day #340

Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band The Official BBC Children In Need Medley is still at #1. While Rihanna moves up to #2 with Russian Roulette and Lady Gaga has bad romance at #3

Random Musings - Day #339

The M25 can be a pain particularly if you miss a turning into it or not. But when one part of the junction is closed off and then there's nowhere else to go but the wrong way down the M25 for a few miles and head back from the next junction. That's just wrong!

I was commenting you have all sorts of experiences. Good ones, bad ones and ugly ones. But it's all good. A bit like the film, "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" was such a good movie.

Wonder who you need to inform if you change your name. Obviously if your passport and drivers licence and the inland revenue.

Random Musings - Day #338

Always thought it would be a good idea if you can check a system with a magic bullet that is with a usb stick with some anti-virus checking. Antivirus on USB goes back to 2005
Backup encryption can be done feasibly these days.

Random Musings - Day #337

Yeovil is completely dead at night. We went to a cark park in town where you would have to pay during the daytime but overnight it's free, there were only 4 cars in it!
Ironically enough went to Barcelona again. Only it was the resaurant in Woking!

Random Musings - Day #336

Here's a guide to Internet Routing and RIP. Off to Yeovil...

Songs to potentially do a duet/dance to are:
Itsy bitsy yellow polka dot bikini, Let's all chant, Word up and Bette Davis Eyes

Random Musings - Day #335

http://www.break.com/game-trailers/game/new-super-mario-bros/automatic-mario-queens-dont-stop-me-now.html

http://www.cesg.gov.uk/publications/media/directory.pdf
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/postpn270.pdf

http://www.computersecurityuk.com/Computer-Security-UK-VPN.html
http://www.cesg.gov.uk/products_services/iacs/osv.shtml

csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-123/SP800-123.pdf
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966456.aspx
http://www.byressecurity.com/assets/pdf/Version%20Network%20Segmentation%20WP.pdf

Random Musings - Day #334

I didn't know that Nicolas Cage has set up residency in Bath as he switched on the Christmas Lights there.

Random Musings - Day #333

You can move like Michael Jackson.
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band (The official Children in Need Medley) defies the odds slightly by not appearing on x-factor and knocks off the x-factor finalists from the top. Jason Derulo is back at #3 with "Whatcha say"

Random Musings - Day #332

In the last few days, in homage to Freddie Mercury's death 18 years ago, the muppets version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" has been doing the rounds and featured in Toronto's meme of the week

Random Musings - Day #331

Tiger Woods was involved in car accident. There are a few rumours about the real story including affair that led to the accident ever opportunist has launched tigerwoodsaccident.com

Random Musings - Day #330

Today is Tina Turner's birthday, simply the best!

Random Musings - Day #329

Yes the Spanish are relaxed. Coffee break during the daytime, extended lunch, etc.
I was watching old videos on 105tv including Bruce Springsteen and didn't know Bonnie Raitt appeared n the video for Glory Days. Also didn't know Chris Isaak was dancing and cavorting with Helena Christensen on the 1990 song "Wicked Game"

Random Musings - Day #328

Flew off to Barcelona. Missed the Champions League game between them and Inter Milan at the Nou Camp. That can hold 100,000 people. And it was sold out. It's actually hard to get tickets as No England club was involved. Went walking around Casa Batllo, Sagrada Familia, Las Ramblas, Placa Catalunya, etc.

Saw this weird show called (Buscant) La Trinca. There was a guy called Ernest who was singing badly and changing wigs all the time and looked suspiciously like Alan Carr.

Random Musings - Day #327

Down by Canary Wharf

Random Musings - Day #326

X-Factor finalists are at #1 with the old Michael Jackson song, "You are not alone". Black eyed peas slip to #2 and Jason Derulo debuts with "Whatcha say" at #3.
Jedward are out finally.

Random Musings - Day #325

We went to Karaokebox and dinner in Soho and Chinatown. Afterwards went to Thai Silk at the o2. Oddly enough one of the bouncer remembered me from being sick as ironically someone else was had been sick by the same bench that I did last time.

Random Musings - Day #324

My mate had an audition for Britain's got talent 2010! So went around to check out the process and the competition. There were all sorts of people there but there were quite a number of kids. There was a quartet of dancers who were quite impressive warming up, doing flips, etc. Also there was a young girl doing some breakdancing.
Whilst there was Chris who sung and I think/hoped danced a little bit too in his audition!

Apparently you can reserve (free) tickets at Applausestore.

Random Musings - Day #323

Here is H.323.
I've been checking myself out. No, not in that way. I've noticed I've been let air out so I checked out if there was something wrong with that. Apparently, it's natural particularly if you are eating a high-fibre diet or beans in general. Here's some tips on how to relieve stomach pain.

Random Musings - Day #322

Visited a nice Lebanese deli-cafe called the Omnia. I had a couple of nice chawarmas there!

I was hoping for an upset when Ireland went to France but instead we got the Hand of Gaul

Random Musings - Day #321

So Day 321 is here. Can't leave today without mentioning 3-2-1 Contact and of course the quiz show 3-2-1 featuring the one and only dusty bin.
Also bad new as the price of ginger is going to up and take the price of chinese takeaways up with it. Not impressed with the local Sainsbury's have stop selling their own brand of clumping cat litter.

Random Musings - Day #320

Ports used by an exchange server. This can't be an exhaustive list as you know Exchange uses RPC services.
The following gives information about what ports available for CRM accessing other Microsoft servers.
Here's a guide to patch policy from Stratus

New OWASP Top 10 has come out.

Random Musings - Day #319

I didn't realise that the guy who jumped on stage with Jedward on x-factor was none other than Calvin Harris. Better photo and article found in the mirror

Random Musings - Day #318

Went pass the Hilton in Deansgate

Random Musings - Day #317

After work, I stayed up in Glasgow and visited the nice gym at the Glasgow Caledonian University. Unfortunately, the gym closed at 7:30 when I got there at 6:45. However, the guy there waivered the entrance fee of 4 pounds. Later, the weather took a turn for the worse and barely got out of the hotel but did end up going to the alea casino!

Random Musings - Day #316

Up to Glasgow for work

Random Musings - Day #315

Read what Sting had to say about x-factor

Random Musings - Day #314

This Sophos guy was a bit dismayed that the general public condoned the worm creator's effort of finding that ikee iphone worm and test driving it. If you think about from a security aspect, you should inform the makers (i.e. Apple) who can put a fix for it. But the iphone would have to be 'broken' anyways. For the general public, they would like to know if there is an issue with their iphone and this can only make awareness in security better. That said, the guy did argue, more hackers are looking for the ikee source code so that can level more malicious payloads.

Here some useful tidbits on securing your file upload including filtering. You can send a malware dummy file (from eicar) to test.

Random Musings - Day #313

The iphone has a new worm and it's replicating itself by displaying photos of 80s icon, Rick Astley. Yes you've been rickwormed!

In local news, it's not safe to even go to the gym, as this Whitstable gym owner fatally discovered. Here's another accidental death

Embarrassingly forgotten my administrator password. All is not lot though, you can get it back using a number of different methods

Random Musings - Day #312

Northwich Victoria of the Conference North knocked out Charlton Athletic, 1-0 in the FA Cup 1st round. And from the performance, which you could call Charlton Pathetic, I fail to see how we/they are 2nd in League 1. I had a bad feeling about that match.

I also had a feeling that Danyl might go tonight from x-factor. Thankfully, I was wrong. He's really the only reason for watching the show now. Particularly, as Simon Cowell didn't have the balls to make a decision for the second week running and this time didn't put Jedward out of their misery. Hence byebye Lucie due to the "public vote".

Meanwhile, JLS score their second #1 and knock off Cheryl Cole from the top with "Everybody in love". While Black-eyed peas who were guests on tonight's x-factor are up into the top 3 with "Meet me halfway"

Random Musings - Day #311

Trying to perfect the circle glide/side glide. Not easy. Even looking at youtube, its not easy! Here's a short version

Random Musings - Day #310

I read somewhere that Kimiko Date Krumm won a WTA event at Seoul. Big deal, you say for the Japanese. But the girl was one day short of 39 when she won and even more amazing she had taken a 12 year break in that time. Only Billie Jean King has won a tournament with a greater age.
Serena Williams was on the Jonathan Ross Show and interestingly enough her book was barely mentioned and yes the US Open fiasco was discussed briefly. I am surprised no-one mentioned her namesake Robbie was on the show too. Williams versus Williams again. ;)

Random Musings - Day #309

BBC visited Sesame Street and there some outtakes too.
What is the recommended daily water intake. I thought 2 litres was the bare minimum but apparently it is 1.5 litres. But you do lose 2 litres per day according to BBC and someone forcing themselves to drink 2 litres a day.

Random Musings - Day #308

Very amused that cookie monster is on the front of google today. It is the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street.
It's funny going through old snippets on youtube. I really didn't know how much of a double act Kermit the frog and Cookie Monster were. Here's them playing a guessing game, looking at cookbook and a telephone.

Random Musings - Day #307

Rested up. I saw "This is it" and generally impressed with the dancing and singing. It was a wee bit long but other than it was great. I mean I wish I could move the way the way he did when I am 50. Of course I'd rather be alive at 50.
Talking of dance and singing, catch this cartoon video of "I feel good" and there's an interesting mashup of britney and bobby for "My prerogative"

Interesting to see how the team of Andy Murray and Laura Robson fair as they are confirmed to represent GB in the Hopman Cup.

It's true, the most expensive train ticket in the UK is over a grand

Random Musings - Day #306

Been ill and dizzy. I know a few people are picking up the old swine flu. But I don't think I have that.
I'm amazed that my good friend got into Britain's got talent (2010). So I'm intending to go down there to the audition!

Random Musings - Day #305

It's All Saints day.

On X-Factor, I was happy that Danyl stayed for another week. The bad press he's getting has got to him. He's the best singer in the competition, although I have a sneaky suspicion, he's peaked too early.

Cheryl Cole is still #1 on the UK Charts fending off Westlife's "What about now" and Jay Sean's "Down"

Hmmm I think I've made up 3 dance moves and the best way to describe them is in their names... the basketball pivot, the weaving slide and the crossover moonwalk...

Also went to The Globe on the south bank of London. I should really check out a play next term as like in the good old days you actually stand up for the whole show for cheap. The exhibition was fascinating. Particularly the urine being used as a stain remover for costumes.
"What the dickens" has nothing to do with Charles Dickens as he's 19th century. The term originate from a Shakespeare's play, "Merry wives of Windsor". Also didn't know that Sam Wanamaker was the person most responsible for bringing the globe theatre back. I immediately twigged that actress Zoe is in fact his daughter.

Random Musings - Day #304

It's halloween or as it is also known, all saints eve. No need to dress up in costume for me!

Random Musings - Day #303

The Japanese Premier, Yugo Hatoyama maybe launching an attack on the charts. Meanwhile Wham's "Freedom" was #1 many years ago.

It's 1000 days from the start of the Olympics.

Any interesting script in two lines to mess around with a script file and generate a listing ports in a way your mother likes it.

grep "^10.0.0.1" tcpscan1.ts | awk '{print $3$2}' | cut -c2- - | sed 's/)/|(/' > ,
for I in `cat ,`; do echo "$I/tcp)"; done | sed 's/|/ /'

More bits of useful scripting relate format modifiers and one-liners for sun. Talking of sun here's a blueprints guide

Random Musings - Day #302

Here's some Oddball stories for October.

Details about Solaris patching including PCA. A couple mroe scripts to help identify patch issues at bolthole and Waider

I went to the Floating Lotus and thinking that place might be a fad, I was pleasantly surprised to find food pretty decent. I particularly enjoyed the tender beef dish but the fabulous fried seafood with salt and pepper was the best.

It reminded of another place I went past whilst on a canal trip in Regent's Park called the Feng Shang Princess.

Random Musings - Day #301

Been very impressed with Mya's performance on Dancing with the stars. Only Len Goodman doesn't seem to be totally impressed but he does know that Mya has done a bit of dancing before.

Here's an allegedly generic-friendly client friendlysql.com

Random Musings - Day #300

I was looking at the weather map and noticed how close Scotland is to Northern Ireland. On closer inspection, it doesn't appear as close as it is from Dover to Calais but apparently you can get from Larne (N.I.) to Cairnryan (Scotland) in an hour by ferry!

McDonalds have pulled out of Iceland. You can work out on your own what the story is about. ;)

It's all about the cut. Once again, computerhope have a good guide.
Actually I am trying to split, mix'n'match fields delimited from a csv file. There's a bunch of useful linux and unix commands at laynetworks and one must get up to speed in using the powerful but tempermental awk.

Random Musings - Day #299

[Oct 26]
In Belfast and enjoying it. I'm by the river (laggan).
I jogged all the way around town, past the city centre, around the river, up to the university and up to St Peter's Cathedreal.
Everyone seems to smoke in Belfast, why I don't know.
(Update me)

Random Musings - Day #298

[Oct 25]
I've not checked properly but I believe Cheryl Cole is #1 and x-factor now sucks as the wrong group goes out.
(UPDATE ME)

Random Musings - Day #297

This weekend sees the World Crazy golf championships. Then there's also Rumfest.

FA Cup first round draw looks interesting. Both Oxford sides (United and City) are in the first round. Other interesting sides include: the Staines massive, Bromley, Sutton United and arguably the dangerous floater in the whole competition that no-one wants to face, last year's Johnstones paints winners, Luton Town.

Random Musings - Day #296

Asterix is 50 years old!

Saw VI was in general release in the UK and all-in-all, it had a bit more substance than the previous two disappointments. Jigsaw's character was more featured than the previous two could have something to do with it. Saw VI does indeed take a pop at the Insurance industry. Oh yes! Churchill could be next. Mind, I could swear that a couple of games were taken straight out of the industrial zone of the Crystal Maze.

I actually hope there is not another sequel to this. But sure enough the ending was open enough for that in mind.

Here is how to hping2. System Configuration guidance is available from many sites.

Random Musings - Day #295

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Random Musings - Day #294

Norwich has a church on every corner in the town centre or that's what it appears to be. Still I managed to visit the castle and the central Cathedral over lunchtime. Unfortunately everything goes dead quiet after 5pm. Even the bus station was dead between 7-9pm.

Random Musings - Day #293

Off to Norwich via Stratford. Annoyingly at Stratford, I had to wait for the ticket machine to go past 9:30am so I can get the off-peak ticket as those tickets do appear on screen before 9:30am. Nearly missing my train. There's a countdown clock next to the station, presumably for the Olympics 2012. It is set to over 1000 days still.
I did some running in the evening and almost found myself on the way to Ipswich somehow. Plumstead is in London but there is also one near Norwich.

Random Musings - Day #292

Forgot to mention Beth Tweedle and Lee Westwood were also winners for Britain. I would be slightly worried if Clare Balding interviewed Beth Tweedle at the Sports Personality of the year, particularly after her comments in her interview with Liam Tredwell after he won the grand national. Clint Eastwood showed up and took part in the ceremonies for the Lyon football game.

Rumfest is coming the following weekend.

Also saw Micro Men

Random Musings - Day #291

The fairytale story has been completed for Jensen Button. To think at the start of the year, he was without a car and likely to be sitting a job centre with us mere mortals rather than sitting on the grid makes this turnaround sublime.

Beachballgate has turned a few heads, particularly as it turns out, it probably should have disallowed as it was foreign object that interfered with the course of play. When I say foreign, I don't mean the players! Check it out for yourself as Darren Bent scored via a deflection from a liverpool beach ball.

Wow, the knives are already out for Whitney Houston after a sub-par performance. Her performance was ok and she looked good but it was her post-performance interview that was questionable. She seemed very slow, forgetful and unsure when interviewed about the competition. More thoughts found at unreality.

Talking of x-factor, last week's performers on the show debuted at #1 and #2 on the UK chart. Alexandra Burke long-awaited comeback song "Bad boys" gives her second #1. Whilst Robbie Williams is back with "Bodies". Meanwhile last week's #1, Chipmunk is now #3.

Random Musings - Day #290

I had some plumbers round and was looking at B&Q and Wickes

Random Musings - Day #289

Leona Lewis is ok after a punch in the face!

Random Musings - Day #288

Huge patch Tuesday updates. Sky has free news. Family guy helps out Microsoft. London techies get their kit off for charity. People are finding resetting accounts triggering account lockouts on twitter.

Random Musings - Day #287

I've lost a bit of respect for laterooms as they used to be very good at giving discounted hotels but these days everywhere I look they are very expensive now and in fact other sites are now cheaper.

Random Musings - Day #286

Fame is a remake of the 1980 movie. But like some of students at the performing arts, this movie was going nowhere.

Random Musings - Day #285

Not that impressed with comparison site, electrical comparison. It doesn't seem give much discrepancy between stores.

Here's how to keep your teeth white-clean

Random Musings - Day #284

Chipmunk is #1 with Oopsy Daisy. Saturdays at #2 with Forever is over. Jay-Z is #3 with Empire state of mind.

BTW I forgot to post last week and last week's chart had Taio Cruz at #1 (this week at #4), David Guetta with Akon at #2 and Jay-Z at #3.

Interesting blog where there is some commentary is at wwadh.

Random Musings - Day #283

England lost in Ukraine 1-0 after Robert Green was sent off. I found it amusing when a sky reporter said "England didn't get the rub of the green" referring to England's possession in the second half.
Just watched the start of "Murder by Numbers" and I swear my default alarm tone uses the same opening sequence.

Random Musings - Day #282

The aptly named whosampled is a database of songs that sampled other songs. I don't think the database is very big. A lot of sampled songs that I can think of, are not there. But then again, I can think of quite obscure samples. It may well be tailored for R&B tracks too.

Random Musings - Day #281

This article would scare people into believing SSL VPNs is not up to the task at all. Though it does have some good suggestions on handling a SSL VPN on a client device.

Random Musings - Day #280

The nicely named stackoverflow is a Q&A site for proggies. Some very nice codes and tools can be found at remote exploit. Downloads can be found at download32.

I thought I had this in my blog somewhere but some funny stuff with Super Mario Bros including the Super Mario Corrupter, Super Mario Gold Run, Super Mario rescuing the Princess

Random Musings - Day #279

I stayed at Jesmond in Newcastle. Seems pretty nice enough. There was a bar beneath the hotel I was staying at for the night. Incidentally, the hotelier tried to put me in the same room as another guest. When I tried the door there was some noises! House prices in Jesmond are quite dear and it does seem posh, well some of the people seemed posh.

Random Musings - Day #278

Well people in the UK that applied for the London Marathon 2010 are learning their fate. Unfortunately, I've been accepted. This time around I'm nearly a stone and a half heavier. So this is going to make life even more tougher than last time in 2008

Random Musings - Day #277

With "Strictly come dancing" and "Dancing with the stars" in full swing. I was disappointed to see Macy Gray already out despite her funny quirky dance on the US version. Meanwhile Anton Du Beke made be in trouble for making racist remarks. You know I've always wondered about the dance studio called 'Goodmans' in Dartford and sure enough it does indeed belong to none other than Len Goodman.

Interestingly, the dance studio is also home to Sugar Free who were beaten semi-finals in Britain's got talent.

Also Dartford is the home to the Mick Jagger Centre at the Grammar school. (Other bits and pieces in Kent

Random Musings - Day #276

The irony is that today saw both Portsmouth and Southampton go into positive points. Also there are reports that Harry Redknapp is to leave Tottenham.

Right now, youtube appears to be down.

The UK interest rate is set by the Bank of England.

Random Musings - Day #275

Caught a glimpse of Gladys Knight on Later with Jools Holland. The empress still impresses!

Random Musings - Day #274

I am trying to workout if this is real or it's been modified... this is the lady does not blink...

Here's the lovely Jessica Alba staring at you.

Random Musings - Day #273

Having flashbacks of all kinds including the recent the har2009, which included the lockpicking championships (dutch open). Your guide to lockpicking is there. A stranger flashback was the jingle for Cannings Ice Cream. Coincidently, could there be a connection with Canning Town? Apparently it was named after Ernest Canning.

PCI Standards are a bit unclear about whether using SSLv2 should fail a company or not. They claim it is only applicable if cardholder data is transmitted with it. To me, PCI Standards is just trying to a pleasure GELF, making you see what you want to see... and open to massive misintepretation!

Somebody went down on Virgin

Random Musings - Day #272

Answer the phone because Hugh Jackman said so!

Random Musings - Day #271

Over the years, there's always been a train of thought that IT work is being taken over by a cheaper third world workforce but evidently it's beginning to kick in as the like of BT and Capgemini are bringing staff abroad to replace UK IT contractors.

I love this, Little Cumbrae an island off the North Ayrshire is now the home to an international yoga camp. The techniques used improve the intake of oxygen which fights ailments like cancer.

I've always thought Arsenal are shrewd team with a shrewd manager who invests in young talent. But it looks like it starts in the boardroom as their subsidiary Arsenal Properties made huge profits (despite property market being flaky).
Ironically, the Saudis look to be interested in Liverpool FC.

How to kiss a girl

Random Musings - Day #270

I've been reminded of an old but cult movie in Idiocracy.

Looking for a place to do karaoke possibly in chinatown like China City.

Betting / Market spread help include prospreads, collective2, John Piper and Interactive Brokers. You could bid oppositely and win.

Random Musings - Day #269

If I were a woman, I'd probably want to be Alexia. She still looking amazing at 42 and just had a baby not a long ago. These days she's releasing songs in her native Italian but at least she been performing her old tracks like "The music I like"

That said, she did release a song with Bloom 06 (two-thirds of Eiffel 65) called "We is the power".

Random Musings: Day #268

Well fed up with steak at Spur at Lakeside (or as I told someone inside Lakeside and got them exceedingly lost!) They have the 60 quid challenge where if you can eat 4 steaks (64oz), you get the meal free. One of my colleagues was confident she can do it!

I had a strange dream that Newcastle beat Ipswich 5-4. Like that's going to happen!

Random Musings - Day #267

Exhausted. went to Guanbarra again. They had salsa dancing and a band on the Thursday.

Random Musings - Day #266

Market moves have been static around the world markets. So here's useful starting page on how to spot trends.

Oh no looks like Accrington Stanley are in trouble again.

So Sol Campbell leaves Notts County after just one game. At least he stuck around for the entire game. I remember that game where he conceded two goals to West Ham and promptly left the Emirates at half-time and was not seen again for over a week. Interestingly, Sol is favourite to join another team that plays in black and white in the form of Newcastle United. Maybe he got confused on the way up north.

Random Musings - Day #265

Looks like another belgian tennis player is coming out of retirement. It's Justine Henin. Women's tennis has suddenly got a whole lot interesting.

Talking of trying to make a return, former world #4 Sebastien Grosjean is playing in native France but his world ranking is less than most at just #1147.

Meanwhile in Toronto, spotted that former 90s dance starlet, Emjay is doing (what seemingly now is an annual gig at Wayback Wednesday.

Game of the day... go to Holland, for a Dutch Cup action between Haaglandia and Excelsior Rotterdam. The game was 4-4 after 90 minutes where Excelsior had been 2-0 and 3-1 up but needed a last minute goal to take the match into extra time, where they proceeded to concede two quick goals to go 6-4 down. But they clawed themselves in a penalty shootout which they won 7-6.

Random Musings - Day #264

Caught more than glimpse of Shakira's new video for top #5 hit, "she-wolf". She still got the moves.
Been playing "The look" over and over again. Looks like Roxette are re-releasing remastered versions of all their albums next week.

Oh dear, facebook looks to have a flaw and that could allow a trojan. Meanwhile, yahoo have their own problems with a brute-force issue with yahoo mail!

Be careful where you stick your USB in, it may corrupt an entire LAN with conficker

Random Musings - Day #263

Pixie Lott falls hard as drops from the top to a lowly #6. Taio Cruz debuts at #1 with "Break your heart". Amazingly David Guetta is stuck at #2 as Madonna also debuts at #3 with "Celebration".

Random Musings - Day #262

How to determine a trust relationship including nlest and adsi

Random Musings - Day #261

Useful Windows commands to help your way are Tasklist and sc.
Local privilege escalation in Windows have seen with driver services, like PML Driver, Epson and privilege escalation on a service.

Random Musings - Day #260

The whole Taylor/Kanye affair is getting massive expose. It looks like Kanye didn't apologise to Miss Swift according to her appearance on the American chat show, "The View". Taylor is amazingly cute as she described exactly what ran through her mind when she picked up her award and got interrupted by Kanye. West later apologised on Jay Leno's show.

Taking showers can apparently make you ill. But do read on, it usually happens that bacteria get out when the shower is first turned on. By habit, well make sure I get hot water, I leave the shower running for a minute before getting in. So reduces the chances a bit.

Random Musings - Day #259

Here's a novel way of using a system's toolset against them to escalate privileges, it's AT. There were a number of functions, programs and application that have weak permissions, e.g. ssdpsrv, netbt, scardsvr, upnphost, dnscache and dhcp that could make privilege escalation possible.

Power users privilege escalation is quite easy as there are a number of places the power user can install and write data. But note WFP (windows file protection) will generally try to stop you from doing this, so you have to force a reboot before WFP twigs.

Here are some differences between OSPF and RIP. OSPF being newer is obviously better!

Random Musings - Day #258

Patrick Swayze lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. As too did Keith Floyd.
Juan Martin del Potro upset the Fed Express to win the Men's US Open. Now only out of the top 5 ranked players in the world, only Andy Murray hasn't won a slam.

Random Musings - Day #257

What with the outbursts? First, Serena Williams, now Kanye West got into trouble at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards for snatching the mic off Taylor Swift in the middle of her acceptance speech for best female video, declaring "Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'll let you finish, but Beyonce has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!" Beyonce was shocked and Taylor so upset she didn't finish her speech. Later on, Beyonce did *actually* win the best video for "single ladies" (which IMHO is one of her worst videos but that's another story) but gave Taylor the chance to finish her speech.

But it could all possibly be a setup as seen at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards when Bruno landed on Eminem's face.

Mika's "We are golden" is very similar to Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven is a place on the earth".

Random Musings - Day #256

One last thing on "kill-you-are-you-serious-gate". The foot fault given by the judge was wrong, at the very best debatable but in that situation on a 2nd serve and at a pivotal point in the match, she should have been given the benefit of the doubt. I am not sure if Serena could have 'challenge' that. It's probably something hawk-eye couldn't be used for. But it's true, Serena should have never reacted the way she did and did no favours in her following press-conference.

Pixie Lott is new #1 with "boys and girls". David Guetta at #2. Jay-Z and co at #3.

Random Musings - Day #255

Unbelievably, Serena Williams erupted on a line decision at 15-30, losing the point which made it 15-40. Consequently, she confronted and abused the line judge and earned a penalty point, which gave Kim Clijsters, the game, the set and match.

I didn't know that a supergroup of divas is forming for Christmas. Here comes the (old) girls features the talents of Lulu, Chaka Khan and Anastacia. The first two are coincidentally in the Thank you for the music concert in Hyde Park.

Apparently, you can disable LMHASH with nolmhash value of "HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Lsa". This is opposed to the previously mentioned "LMCompatibilityLevel".

Don't forget the port numbers and ascii table

Random Musings - Day #254

That abs video featured: knee ups, leg raises, cycles... reverse crunches, crunches, hip thrust... cross crunches, reach and touch, cross leg reverse crunch...

How suid works... Code access control security control in Microsoft .Net framework. However, I don't think it's meant to be used over the Internet.

You can create your own service in Windows. You would need "instsrv.exe" from the resource kit. You can modify the registry but I've discovered you need to reboot the system to make it appear in services. You can write a cpp program using the openscmanager.

Random Musings - Day #253

I was just about to say, have a look at the Pub in the Park festival. But it looks like organisers have cancelled it. BTW I am not sure what pubinthepark.co.uk is all about...

What's happening to these guys...
I read recently that former UK #1 artist, Sonique has had treatment for breast cancer. Also Phil Collins spinal injury has finished his career as a drummer.

Random Musings - Day #252

9/9/9
Today was 9/9/9 and thankfully that day passed through near enough quietly.

Twitter RANT
Decided to just use twitter as following tool. Maybe I am not using it right but I think it's useless if you want to talk to someone new, really... You can't direct message unless they are following you. How the hell are you supposed to get a message across @someone and everyone potentially could see your tweet. No thanks. RANT OVER.

BTW my twitter is Shy 90, which I am now only tweeting useless 90s facts.

Internet Radio
A couple more internet radio stations to look out for. Some DJs that I know of are at Rockin Radio. Also found fallen sword via twitter.

Java certify me
Sun is telling me to upgrade my Java Certification.

More one-liners
This one was done on-the-fly. Figure out what the awk does?

cat all-result.txt | grep 10.0.0.1 | grep HIGH | grep 'MS0' | awk '{where=match($0,"MS0?-???"); print substr($0,where,8)}'

Turns out it was easier to replace an enhanced grep...

grep -o "MS[0-9+]-[0-9]*."

As shown in the modified one-liner...

cat all-result.txt | grep 10.0.0.1 | grep HIGH | grep 'MS0' | grep -o "MS0[0-9]-[0-9]*." | sort | uniq

To read a argument from shell... "READ IPS"

Random Musings - Day #251

Who said chess was boring? Russian grandmaster Vladislav Tkachiev passed out drunk in a tournament. One lady has written a book about the goings on in chess, 'Chess Bitch'

What is the world coming to as McDonalds try to and unsuccessfully sue McCurry for name infringement.

Have a look video found by searching 'six pack abs'

Random Musings - Day #250

Pentestmonkey's blog is game for a laugh.
Unicode is lot more complicated than first thought, what with UTF-8, UTF-16. Lots of words about it and trying to translate it is probably hard as it's not well discussed. Here's the unicode charmap. Anyhow translations can be used in directory traversals.

Don't forget sharenum...

Random Musings - Day #249

Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West tag up and wrestle the number 1 spot from Dizzie Rascal and David Guetta. Sugababes regroup at #2 with "Get sexy"

Random Musings - Day #248

Hsving thunder thighs evidently protects the heart. Size-plus model, Lizzie Miller has sparked some controversy in showing a little flab (i.e. not airbrushed) in a photo. Now that's normal!

Not so normal is Lady Gaga. The eccentric pop starlet has overdone it with tanning lotion in the latest edition of V magazine. BTW like the name, Amy Grindhouse.

Big deal is being made about Daniela Westbrook's return to Eastenders. It is noted that Kim Medcalf who last played the Sam Mitchell character was asked first and wasn't available.

Random Musings - Day #247

The Security Accounts Manager (SAM) can be stored in LANMAN hash and/or NTLM. LANMAN makes passwords brute-force attacks easy if the SAM is retrieved.

There is a registry setting to look for under "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA", there is a key "LMCompatibilityLevel" which has acceptable range of 0-5. 0 is usually default, which means all hashing is acceptable. You should really set it to 4 or 5. Microsoft discuss this on their support site

More useful links include: arp-scan, introduction to steganograhpy, XSS in the Cisco Ironport and how to look up reverse zones for ip addresses in DNS.

The well known SMB vulnerability ms09-001 does have POC exploits but they only crash the concerned system best demonstrated by 4xunderground.

Random Musings - Day #246

On the Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB), the first entry is the coldfusion information disclosure
Here's a good introduction to HTTP Response Splitting and the infamous cheat-sheet. All the finger abuse from yesteryear in a nice page.

Apparently, this is the way to lost the fat around your stomach.

Random Musings - Day #245

There has been a bit of controversy about the man that appeared on the Traflagar Square plinth in the nude.
Apparently, A police spokesman said it was not a crime to appear naked in public.

Finally, the GTA maker's Take-Two Interactive have paid out over the 'hot coffee' sex minigame left within Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.

Random Musings - Day #244

Johnstone Paints Trophy starts this week. I am not sure how the byes are sorted out but of the teams relegated last season, Norwich didn't get a bye! Yet struggling Grimsby did.
Anyways one team not taking part is the defending champions, Luton Town. That sucks. But the theory behind the rejected request is that this is a competition for the lower two divisions. So teams that get promoted to the Championship and in this case relegated to the Conference cannot defend the trophy. Ironically, Scunthorpe whom Luton beat in the final, last April got promoted to the championship.

China invests in Canada oil sands interesting!

Random Musings - Day #243

Exhausted.
I didn't get back until 1am from the Notting Hill Carnival. It was good, lots of dancing and for longer but the band didn't complete the course before the 9pm curfew. So the music had to cut and had to walk the rest of the way there. Not sure why it was slow. We parked up for quite while a few times.

Random Musings - Day #242

Dizzee Rascal toasts another #1 hit with "Holiday". It's nothing to do with the old Madonna song though. David Guetta slips to #2 and the Black eyed peas at #3.

The Notting Hill Carnival is in full swing.

Random Musings - Day #241

Never forget that Paula Abdul started off life as a chereographer and here's an interesting duel with Janet Jackson at the 1990 American Music Awards. Check out some Video tracks from 1989.

Random Musings - Day #240

Well I forgot to post this article about Amitjo Kajila, the prison warden who lost her job because of her good looks.

It looks like Google Earth has spotted the Loch Ness monster.

Now gone in 60 seconds is your WPA key. Meanwhile Apache's website was hacked.

Be careful of researching using google, Sky found out to their cost as they used a twitter photo on their website and that twitter found out and seeked revenge.

Random Musings - Day #239

More one-liners
No, this is not comedy but there are so many ways to kill a dead donkey. All these one-liners do the exact same thing and that's add a tab and 'Y' at the end of each line in a file...

for I in `cat t.txt`; do echo -e "$I\tY"; done

for I in `cat t.txt`; do printf "%s\tY\n" $I ; done

cat t.txt | xargs -i echo -e "{}\tY"

I prefer using the for construct in shell, as I can remember that and you can find a way of doing things with it. That's just a personal preference. Here's another example, generating IP address on-the-fly and look the dns name up.

for I in $(seq 255); do host 192.168.0.$I; done

Random Musings - Day #238

I watching skins tonight and heard the old bronski beat song, "Small town boy". The acoustic version played is by Andre Herman Dune. I think it's an adequate cover but I don't think you can go wrong with the song. If I sung it, it probably sound good too...

Songs on my mind,
Corporation of One's original version of "The Real Life".
The mashup of "You rock my world" and "Rock your body".
The space cowboy mix of discostick song by Lady Gaga.
The Legend of Zelda sounds of Unicorn Kid with "Wee monster".

Fancy ways to...
Remove last character from a string and merge lines. This led to the following one-liner!

grep "172.16.0.1" auth-sel-1.txt | grep "MS0" - | awk '{print $2}' | uniq | sort | rev | cut -b 2- - | rev

grep "172.16.1.4" auth-sel-1.txt | grep "MS0" - | awk '{print $2}' | uniq | sort | sed 's/:/,/g' - | tr -d '\n'

Scuba is evidently not only used diving but for Oracle databases

Random Musings - Day #237

I thought it was witty no-one want to do karaoke because there was a famous singer in the house. So Ian Brown had to sing karaoke to get thing moving.

"First cut is the deepest" suddenly appeared in my mind and Cat Stevens originally sung it. Rod Stewart covered and more recently Sheryl Crow.

Enjoying the mashup video of Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake.

Flicking through the tv and saw the cute Yu Ram Cha taking on the boys at pool.

Random Musings - Day #236

I went to Efe's Restaurant in London for some Turkish action. Friendly lot and the chicken was extra tender. I am starting to wonder if halal food is the way forward. Every time I have had halal chicken, it's been tender!

I heard a weird track on the radio that the dj claimed it sounded like the legend of zelda. It's Unicorn Kid's "Wee monsters".

Wow apparently, You got the love dates back to 1984 when Little Nikki McGee did an evangelistic version.

It's weird, there's a end of a song that it's been in my head, that I've just worked to be a different mix of "Where love lives" which I am still desperately seeking the original version from 1990, which may or may not be the sauna/swedes in the area/spring mix. Mustn't forget the sweetbox funky mix of Culture Beat's "Crying in the rain!"

In the meantime, found a couple of places to look for vinyl records including Energy Flashes and Vinyl Searcher

A good list of classic dance songs can be found at uk music

1. twin hype - for those who like to groove
2. dionne - come get my lovin
3. raze - break for love
4. corporation of one - this is the real life
5. richie rich - salsa house
6. wood allen - airport 89
7. mr lee - get busy
8. 2 in a room - somebody in the house say yeah
9. rhythm is rhythm - nude photo
10.chicco secchi project - whip of the rhythm
11.pin up girls - take me away
12.quartz - meltdown
13.rickster - night moves
14.double trouble feat rebel mc - street tough
15.primal scream - don't fight it feel it
16.grandmaster & melle mel - white lines 89
17.land of fun - rock me in the basement
18.de-lite - wild times
19.a guy called gerald - voodoo ray (rham on acid mix)
20.doug lazy - let it roll
21.neon - don't mess with the this beat
22.slam - eterna
23.technotronic - pump up the jam
24.the beat club - dreams are made to be broken
25.secchi - flute on
26.adeva - i thank you
27.orbital - chime
28.homeboy, hippie and a funky dread - total confusion
29.together - hardcoar uproar
30.rhythm is rhythm - strings of life
31.frankie knuckles - tears
32.sueno latino - sueno latino
33.sterling void - alright
34.chuck jackson - all over the world
35.ce ce rogers - someday
36.kariya - let me love you for tonight

Random Musings - Day #235

David Guetta scores another UK #1 but this time, it's with Akon on the song called "Sexy chick". Black eyed peas are back at #2 and Tinchy Stryder is at #3.

If you spot someone trying to ask you to check out photos of yourself at friends.gallery-spaces.com, it's a virus. Not only that I believe it originated from Mexico much like swine flu.
Here's a nice list of known malicious sites

Random Musings - Day #234

Gosh my mind is empty.
Equal right for women as US women are fighting the right to bare...

Random Musings - Day #233

Another dimension by timmy vegas samples crystal waters' gypsy woman and sounds like the ones' flawless.

Random Musings - Day #232

As Spurs hit the top of the premiership, out of the 16 games so far in the season, there has been no drawn games!
The berliner mascot has been everywhere at the World Athletics championships and has had his fair share thrills and spills including dropping 400m champion Melanie Walker

Random Musings - Day #231

Controversially, the winner of the women's 800m race may be a man.

Random Musings - Day #230

Lance Armstrong is cool. He decided to tweet that he was in Glasgow and if anyone wanted to go on a ride. 300 people showed up.

The hacking community now descends on Malaysia as that is hosting Hack-in-the-box. Not to be confused with hackday, hackaday or Music Hackday

Random Musings - Day #229

Just a last thing about Eindhoven. Those clear plastic bags that you are required to put liquids in cost 20 cents. That's the first airport I know of where you get charged for that.

Black eyed peas are still at #1 with "I've gotta feeling". #2 is with Tinchy Stryder. Calvin Harris ia at #3 with "Ready for the weekend", which is the name of his new album.

There's a strange (space cowboy) mix going about of Lady Gaga's "Love game (discostick)"

Random Musings - Day #228

If you get stuck on an isolated train station (e.g. St Johns), you are pretty reliant on the ticket machine. Dutch train ticket machines are awful. The ones on the station in Nunspeet were not accepting cards nor notes, which meant I had find 20 euros in change (the smallest value coin is 2 euros). Apparently, if you tried to buy on the train, you would be charged 30 euros penalty on top of the fare. Very annoying. Furthermore, the local restaurant refused to give change when asked. So had to get a ticket to the stopover and then buy another ticket from there. Funny, how they are hardly no tunnels in the Netherlands. It's probably because the country is newish, particularly with land being reclaimed, etc. But it's mainly because it is flat.

Also if you want to upset the Dutch, tell them that you think Holland and Netherlands are the same. Apparently not so. Technically, Holland is part of the Netherlands.


Sport
Tiger Woods failed to win after leading going into the final round. YE Yang won the USPGA becoming the first Asian winner of a golfing major. Usain Bolt broke the 100m record down to 9.58s when winning the World Championships.

Random Musings - Day #227

Spent the day, helping out har-fm @ har 2009 and ending up doing reports/interviews from the Lockcon #2 tournament, which is essentially locksport.
Also interviewed a lovely lady about gogbot. I was using a borrowed Zoom Handy 4 Recorder to do my interviews.

Now I'm relaxing in a lounge.

Just a settle an argument. It's tidbit and not titbit as shown on google fight.

Random Musings - Day #226

Too many things going on at har2009 including the token system being forged as some bright spark made their own counterfeit tokens. The game was up when someone went overboard and printed 100 euro tokens which don't exist. Still it served to prove a point really.

It was funny that the Lounge started playing Rick Astley. As it turned out, there is jukebox that is accessible twitter (on @HARLounge)

Dan Kaminsky's talk on x509 drew the most attention particularly as he swigging from the JD bottle.

Also some more dancing

Random Musings - Day #225

Never get an early flight if it's too far away. Nearly missed the flight to Eindhoven as I got to Stansted at 6:15am about 40 minutes. I thought as long as we checked in that would be that. But going through the checks took a long time so as it turns out the baggage could have got there without their owner.

Anyhow at har2009 to attend a few seminar sessions, etc and to do a bit of camping. I didn't get a lot of sleep beforehand.
The night was freezing.

Random Musings - Day #224

Tidying up my profile as much as I can and why do have separate bookmarks for Firefox and IE.
Anyhow a couple of pearls found are the On the buses on speed, Blakey goes to the states and Word Origins.

There must have been a reason why I have Metadot portal server on my list but debugging a perl program is always useful.
There's another alternative to keepvid and that's video downloader

I have played neopets before and Reon Kadena is pretty.

If you want to go somewhere check out Oz Experience and Magicbus NZ.

A good guide to the american charts can be found at allmusic. The number 1's on the billboard and dance charts can be found at wikipedia.

body wave tutorial
In case I forget again, the gym I went to in Newcastle was called Body zone

Random Musings - Day #223

I encountered this witty article, which featured Don King as a guest writer talking about routers.

There are several system cleanup software out there including Winsysclean and Registry Mechanic and Registry Clean Expert. All of which, you unfortunately shell out some cash to use freely, with the exception of ccleaner.

There is also bootvis and startup inspector

Random Musings - Day #222

Here's a good way to configure Windows XP. There is a useful tutorial to assign permissions is but I don't think it works well in XP Home.

Here's an overview of the differences between XP Home and XP Professional.

Random Musings - Day #221

Just quick one really. Very tired from going to Reading. That's very vibrant especially as it is a university town with the busiest place being of all places Yates. But no hanging around the pubs and bars for me as it was work for me.

The UK chart is really static with no less that 5 former #1s in the top 11 and that's excluding the current #1. So you could say 6 of the top 11 have been #1. New #1 as Amelle from the sugababes teams up with Tinchy Stryder on "Never leave you". Black eyed peas are back to #2 and Mr Hudson and Kanye at #3

Random Musings - Day #220

Here's some points to look at... Password cracking,
Terminal Server Grinding,
15 minute pen test part 1 and part 2

In Reading over the weekend for work. Err have a look on google maps for Reading FC. Half the pitch looks to be metallic!
I tell you Reading is very vibrant over the weekend. It's a real shame, I am too tired from working to enjoy it. I mean the Yates for example was packed out and people queuing a fair way. You probably wouldn't get that any other Yates in the country!