TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux.

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Tablet priced under $100 with Android 4.0 surfaces

Ainol’s Novo7 tablet has a 7-inch capacitive screen and runs on a 1GHz single-core MIPS processor, said MIPS Technologies and chip maker Ingenic in a joint press release. The tablet’s battery lasts eight hours on watching video, seven hours when browsing the Web and six hours when playing games.

The tablet runs on Google’s Android 4.0, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, which is the successor to Android 3.0, code-named Honeycomb, which is found on the more advanced tablets today.

via Tablet priced under $100 with Android 4.0 surfaces | ITworld.

Tomato Firmware: Increased Transmit Power Does More Harm Than Good?

I had turned the routers up to 80 mW and the problem was still occurring. Upon some research I found that as the Transmit power levels of the routers increased, so did the radio noise produced by the routers. I decided to turn the routers back down, to a level lower than when I first began to administer the network. After this change, users noticed an immediate improvement in the quality of their wireless connections. Everything was (and still is) running stable. The users are no longer losing Internet connection and are maintaining proper network speeds.

via Tomato Firmware: Increased Transmit Power Does More Harm Than Good? | Techerator.

I’m seeing the same thing with the Tomato firmware.  The firmware is nicer than Linksys but I thought increasing the power of this router would increase the range but I suppose it’s more complicated than that.

Packetstan: NBNS Spoofing on your way to World Domination

Since the look up is just a hostname, windows adds the local DNS suffix to the query and asks its DNS server(s). The suffix picked up my the Windows box usually comes from the DHCP server. As you can see, the DNS server replied that it had no idea on how to lookup that name. Next, you’ll see the NBNS Request. The beautiful thing is, the NBNS Request is a broadcast, so anyone can reply easily and redirect traffic.

via Packetstan: NBNS Spoofing on your way to World Domination.

NetBIOS/NBNS

NBNS serves much the same purpose as DNS does: translate human-readable names to IP addresses e.g. www.wireshark.org to 65.208.228.223. As NetBIOS can run on top of several different network protocols e.g. IP, IPX, …, other implementations of the NetBIOS services have their own mechanisms for translating NetBIOS names to addresses. NBNS’s services are more limited, in that NetBIOS names exist in a flat name space, rather than DNS’s hierarchical one multiple flat name spaces can exist, by using NetBIOS scopes, but those are rarely used, and NBNS can only supply IPv4 addresses; NBNS doesn’t support IPv6.

via NetBIOS/NBNS – The Wireshark Wiki.

Education | parallel.illinois.edu

For this reason, education is among the primary missions of the Parallel Computing Institute. With offerings ranging from complete curricula in parallel computing through the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Computer Science, to just-in-time workshops and seminars, PCI offers a broad selection of options for students and professionals and collaborates with organizations such as the CUDA Center of Excellence, the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center, the Cloud Computing Testbed, and NCSA, among others, to make their offerings widely available.

via Education | parallel.illinois.edu.