From Rootsecure.net comes this link to the details of an Oklahoma City contest. Too bad 802.11b is only 11Mbps!

Happened across this in a LangaLetter. It’s supposed to work for any NT-based system (NT, XP, Win2K).

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk. Note that it can/will screw things up if Encrypted File System (EFS) is used insofar as the encrypted files will be unreadable until you recall the original password.

Also listed: Trinity Rescue Kit – a Linux-based toolset which includes networking support and tools to make use of the network and it supports NTFS.

Check out the article … it’s got more tools (application-level password tools, for instance) as well as links to other sites and searches for more.

Here’s a link to his column in today’s Mercury News. Some good links in it and some good information, too 🙂

Sorry, been mostly offline for the better part of the last week. Lots of stuff going on — home, work and play — and just not enough time to do it all.

My Archos Jukebox Studio 10 arrived on Friday (pretty good as I took the free shipping and Amazon estimated it would arrive anywhere from the 19th to the 21st). Charged it overnight and loaded it up with about 50 of my CDs on Saturday. I back up my CDs to MP3 at a fairly high bit rate — generally VBR with a min of 160 — but they only took up about half of the 10G I have available.

Just about the best part, though, is Rockbox — an Open Source replacement for the firmware for most of the Archos line. I didn’t know about Rockbox when I bought the thing so that wasn’t a part of the reason I bought it, but the firmware adds a lot of function and the support from that group of people is just phenomenal. If you’re thinking about buying a portable MP3 player/recorder, I’d suggest you seriously consider Archos! It’s not the best or sexiest or coolest hardware around but you can’t beat the support. Maybe there are similar things around for some of the other hardware like Creative, I dunno, but Rockbox is aces in my opinion.

And to think, I just kind of happened across it while looking for information about the jukebox online. Sometimes the Internet is a wunnerful thaing!

Ran across this when I was tyring to find reviews of the Archos Studio I bought. No reviews of what I bought but it’s a good informational site.

Found a note about OurNotePad.com in one of the ASP.NET weblogs. Another interesting idea: an free online notepad that can be shared amongst users. Not too sure of the utility of this particular idea but I haven’t had a chance to play with it much yet. I think you’ve already grasped the basic concept. It’s simple, yes, it’s not as fancy as a weblog or a forum … and that may be its beauty. The interface is a little cluttered for me and I can’t get to the notepad sheets themselves without using the mouse but I’ll diddle with it and we’ll see.

Another free service: OnlineHomeBase.com. This actually predates OurNotePad, I think. It’s OurNotePad.com on steroids in that it provides a calendar along with a notepad organized in to “sheets” wrapped up with notification capabilities (email and cell phone) and collaboration. It has free-form text entry and it (supposedly) figures out what’s what (reminders and such) based on context.

Hmm … am I gonna have enough time to explore this stuff?

I got my confirmation mail from RSSJobs and am not impressed! Below is a copy of the headers. Note the from line, that it comes from an Earthlink account (64.203.48.190), that the IP address sending it to Earthlink is an unroutable one (probably a NAT firewall at home) and there’s no host/domain name in the SMTP chat. The service is probably legit but it looks like it was thrown together by someone with the germ of a good idea and no real experience. Nothing wrong with that, I guess. We’ll see.

From: “nobody@.”
Apparently-From: [email protected]
Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.1.2) (64.203.48.190)
Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1] by 192.168.1.2 (AppleMailServer 10.2.3.0) id 3213 via TCP with SMTP; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:55:06 -0700

It’s a 10GB unit that serves as a removable external hard disk (USB 1.1) but its primary function, for me anyway, is as an MP3 player. It normally sells for $149 on Amazon but they’ve got a $50 Amazon mail-in rebate which brings it down to $99 and at that price it’s not a bad deal. Powered by 4 AA NiMH batteries, it can play for up to 10 hours on a single charge and there’s an Open Source software project that’s been pretty active for quite a while now called Rockbox.

The way it works is you simply plug it in to your PCs USB port and it appears as a removable drive (just like a USB thumbdrive thingy) and you can copy files in and out at well. Later, in your car, for instance, when you want to play something, you use the controls built on to the player and treat it like you would any Walkman or stand-alone CD player. If you wanna store regular files on it, fine … obviously they won’t play but you can do it if you like.

There are larger players but with the $50 mail-in rebate, I just couldn’t beat it.

And for those who are looking for a new opportunity, RSSJobs will search on 4 sites: Monster, Dice, HotJobs and UCSD Job Link (a job board at UC San Diego).

I dunno that I’d go giving them money yet, though. The domain was registered on July 13 of this year (by a guy in (gasp!) San Diego) and it looks like the searches go directly to the standard search facilities of the 4 boards. I’m curious whether the guy that’s started the service has gotten the OK from the targets. Also, there are only 4 boards, there’s no company information (the contact page simply let’s you enter a comment/email) and, on top of everything else, the service is pretty restrictive. For $5/month you only get 10 saved searches, each delivering up to 25 results. For free you get 5 saved searches, each delivering a maximum of 10 results.

Dan Gillmor reports this response he got from Microsoft when he asked them what they were gonna do with/about weblogs.