LocalTi.me City/Country Information Search Engine

Stumble upon a very good website on internet.
This website is so useful for traveler like me

Imagine you have all the key/useful information (power/time zone/currency) in one page, without the hassle to go google it yourself

Try it yourself -> http://localti.me/

How to make a MP3 ring tone for your phone

A simple guide – How to make a MP3 ring tone for your phone

1.  Download a copy of the audacity tool and LAME MP3 encoder.
http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/audacity-win-unicode-1.3.8.exe (extract to any place, no need install)
http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/Lame_v3.98.2_for_Audacity_on_Windows.exe

WPA Encryption Cracked in One Minute – Tom’s Guide

Two Japanese scientists have figured out a way to crack WPA encryption in sixty seconds.

Two Japanese scientists, Toshihiro Ohigashi of Hiroshima University and Masakatu Morii of Kobe University, plan to reveal how they can crack WPA encryption in sixty seconds at a technical conference taking place on September 25 in Hiroshima. PC Advisor said that the two scientists have designed an attack that gives hackers a way to read the encrypted traffic passed from PCs and certain routers that use WPA.

The method isn’t new: security researchers revealed a way to break WPA encryption back in November. However, according to Dragos Ruiu, organizer of the PacSec security conference where the first WPA hack took place, the scientists have taken the supposed attack “to a new level,” saying that they took theoretical information and made it “much more practical.”

The previous attack method, developed by researchers Martin Beck and Erik Tews, took between 12 and 15 minutes to work on a smaller range of WPA devices. The PC advisor report also stated that both attacks only work on WPA systems that use the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) algorithm. Fortunately, the attack does not work on WPA systems using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm, or WPA 2 devices.

If this bit of news seems a little frightening, don’t fret: many WPA routers allow users to switch from TKIP encryption to AES through the administration interface.

via WPA Encryption Cracked in One Minute – Tom’s Guide.

Windows Live 2009 (Wave 3) QFE 2 applications

There is a silent update by Microsoft on their Live Essential Product. I just notice it when I try launch my Live Movie Maker and it say it was expired and update itself.

Beyond the released version of Windows Live Movie Maker, it is not known what has changed with the other applications.

The changed components are Windows Live Movie Maker, Windows Live Family Safety, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Sync, Windows Live Writer, Silverlight, Live Essentials Installer, Junk Mail filter update, and Choice Guard.

My favorite Live suite is Window Photo Gallery and Live Writer, I really live how Microsoft product manage to link each other up and perform task nicely. Totally ease how I organize my photo and blog.

I still hope they add more feature in WPG and make it a much faster and better Photo organizer.

Facebook Information Leakage

This attack has caused personal information leakage. The detail of the attack can be found from:

http://blog.quaji.com/2009/08/facebook-csrf-attack-full-disclosure.html

I gonna try and verify this attack

Gunpla Assembly Guide – Day #1

There are still many Gundam model (Gundam Plastic Model – Gundam Plasmo – Gunpla) i too lazy to assembly lying under my bed

It was a fine Sunday, and I was pretty much teased by another modeler who bring his model to office, I decided to work on those Gundam again.

If I gonna do it from start, might as well let do a beginner guide for it

Since I pretty much lack of time, I choose one of the easier model to begin with, a Master Grade Zaku I.

Produce by Bandai Japan at 10 year ago (1999), this is a bargain buy I got from Jusco last time, for RM30, lol (Guess they put the wrong tag)

Working @ Coffee Bean

 

I think Starbuck is much better place to sit down and work…Am actually tethering using my P527 to online.

The slow speed of Digi EDGE really potong stem…

Cheatsheet for Linux

unalias lsHow to cover your track in Linux.

1. SSH – History Clear

unset HISTORY HISTFILE HISTSAVE HISTZONE HISTORY HISTLOG; export HISTFILE=/dev/null; export HISTSIZE=0; export HISTFILESIZE=0

2. SED – Cover Track

Replace IP address in log

sed -s 's/211.xxx.xxx.xxx/192.168.1.1/g' access_log access.log  security

3. SED – Restrict SSH access

sed -i 's/AllowUsers fuck root oracle/AllowUsers fuck root oracle rqcuser/g' sshd_config

lsof -i:22  "Check sshd PID"
COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE   DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
sshd    18662 root   11u  IPv6 27925867       TCP *:ssh (LISTEN)
sshd    31793 sshd   12u  IPv6 34742994       TCP 192.168.1.2:ssh->192.168.1.5:49080 (ESTABLISHED)

kill -SIGHUP 18662

4. ttyshell

python -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/sh")'

5. Netcat Fix

unalias ls

Aperture & Depth of Field

Even wonder how those photographer shot those blurry background but sharp object photo, or some call it the BOKEH photo?

Actually, those background blur effect is actually cause by the Depth of Field of the camera. In short, a shallow DOF will cause the background became blurry and a deep DOF will show the background clearly.

The DOF is directly related to the Aperture:

BIGGER Aperture size (F number smaller) –> Shallow DOF (Blurry background)

SMALLER Aperture size (F number bigger) –> Deep DOF (Clear background)

Another factor that affect DOF is the focal length (aka the zoom):

LONGER Focal length (Higher Zoom) –> Shallow DOF (Blurry background)

SHORTER Focal Length (Smaller Zoom) –> Deep DOF (Clear background)

Let look at the below photo:

Here the different of each Aperture size.

Beginner might wonder why the number grow smaller when the aperture is bigger. This is explain previously, just remember to golden rule, the smaller the F number is, the bigger the aperture size.

Let come back to the photo. The main focus point of the photo is the front statute face. Notice that when the smaller the aperture (bigger F number), the statute face at the back became clearer. Or the other way, the bigger the aperture, the harder you can see all the statute face but only 1 in focus.

Deep Space & Tiny mankind

Lot of thing happen to me lately…happy…sad…down…
But, after watching this video, i remember the day i took a look at the sky and saw a meteor sweep across it…
the day when i open up my astronomy book and imagine how big is the sun and solar system…
the day when i went to a pitch black empty ground, look at the sky and just amaze by how many star there are out there…

I just a small little tiny thing in this world, there are so many possibilities out there still…
learn to appreciate what you have…say thank you to all the friend that you loves…stand out and try to make yourself a little bit useful to this vast world.

There is no word i could express my thanks to you Get well soon ya