I forgot to mention http://www.speedtest.net . I ran a test on my home computer while we were in class and it was really slow. It is a cool tool. Here is a link to my test while at Devry (not in class):

Last night at Keller in my SE 571 class we talked a bit about a few links. First was a link to Dan Kaminski’s DNS checker website: http://www.doxpara.com/ . He mentions in the post that is at the top today that “opendns.org has capacity” So here is that link: http://www.opendns.org . I have used opendns [...]

Like to rip DVDs for playback on your mobile device? Assuming it is legal in your area: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/21/make-your-movies-mobile-with-dvd-catalyst-free/ . is a great tool. Looks like you can pick which track to rip and to what format. I use the Windows Media setting for my PPC 6700 and it also plays ok on my dlink dsm [...]

Looks like virtual box has been making our lives a lot easier: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/18/vee-dee-eyes-hooks-you-up-with-virtualbox-linux/ .

I wanted to installed vmware on my linux machine, but realized it was a bit of a pain and not officially supported in Hardy Heron 8.04.1 yet, so that stunk. So I looked at Suns virtualbox instead. So far it is pretty awesome. I am installing a ackhemm scaled down version of xp into the [...]

As a note for my SE571 class at Keller.edu this term and next, I downloaded nMap to perform a port scan. This would be a perfect tool for your video demo. http://nmap.org/download.html What does nMap do? Well it will tell you which ports are open on your network. You can point it at a domain [...]

I was able to install Ubuntu on a IBM T22 that Scott gave to me the other day. It runs it great. You dont get the cool desktop effects, but everything worked. right away. These are nice laptops, albeit a bit old. Scott had a Netgear WG511v2 PCMCIA card in it that I was able [...]

I wanted to get http://www.time4learning.com working on my daughters openSuse machine running FireFox 3.0. I downloaded the firefox extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 User Agent Switcher, but it didnt give me the option I wanted. I could get IE, which made the links break in time4learning.com or I could get netscape 4.8, which made the page not work [...]

I am certainly not trying to bash Linux by any means, but it isnt immune to attack:http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571 To err is human and programmers are human, however god-like we think we are, we are not above making mortal mistakes.

After installing Ubuntu I wanted to see how it would work at DeVry with the overhead projector. So I plugged in my external drive and booted up having the project plugged in. It worked flawlessly. Plus it just looks great. I tried to install WINE and it did install, gave me an option for IE [...]

When I was hacked a few weeks back at http://www.foundation4children.org/default.html I was surprised to see that the hackers left everything intact. A couple of years back I was hacked and they weren’t so nice. Anyway if you visit the link you can see a stats link on the hacked page. Check out the stats. It [...]

I have installed ubuntu on about 3 machines over the last week or so and my only real comments are: 1. WOW. What a great OS2. Installing wireless is easy if you – install, connect to a hardwire and update, turn on your wireless at all times and then reboot a couple of times.3. I [...]