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USB Hacks with the latest U3 smart drives

Wow I need to get a U3 Thumbdrive !

A thumbdrive with 2 partition, 1 which emulate a CD/DVDrom device when plugged into your workstation.

Quoted from Wikipedia, “USB flash drives adhering to the U3 specification are termed “U3 smart drives” by U3.com. “U3 smart drives” differ from traditional USB flash drives because they come preinstalled with the U3 Launchpad, which emulates the Windows OS start menu, and controls program installation.”

Autorun ? Payload ? Malware ? endless ways to go right through your cleverly laid perimeter security.

http://www.hak5.org/wiki/USB_Hacksaw USB shall be seen as EVIL !

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Go The Extra Mile !

Run for a cause for the coming Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2006 ! I’m pledging $1 for every KM that Dave will be running.

He said he will quit smoking, he did !

He said he will complete a 42KM marathon, well he will !

Details of the Fund Raising event: http://hwascsm06.blogspot.com/

Email him @ davekiat at gmail dottie com

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VMware Server is finally out of Beta

VMware has announced VMware Server 1.0 and it’s FREE.

I’m a great fan of VMware Workstation for testing various Linux distros and creating a infrastructure to test certain software features.

With VMware Server free, I can bring my work home too. (Not really a good thought ?)

You can download VMware Server here.

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FreeNAS, powered by FreeBSD

FreeNAS is a free NAS server. Install on any x86 pc and convert it to a NAS serving CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC protocols.

Software RAID is supported at the following levels, 0, 1, 5. All configuration is done through the web interface.

Maybe I can put my old dual P3 system to good use.