the priorities of moving house …

DoS attack

I was sent this picture & just had to share – good overview of a basic dos attack (syn flood).

Legit: shows a normal 3-way handshake SYN – SYN/ACK – ACK

DoS: shows what happens when the SYN/ACK is not answered with an ACK by the initiating connection – as it says, repeat this 1000 times at once and the destination server ends up using all its resources with half open connections.

Not as effective these days as even most cheap home adsl routers have syn flood / DoS protection – but I thought the graphic example was awesome

Click on the picture for a larger size ….

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linky

eleven !!!

nuf said !!!

Desperate Pandora Employees Scrambling To Find Song Area Man Likes

I am an avid listener of pandora, it was interesting to read how their staff tirelessly try to please their listeners

OAKLAND, CA—The headquarters of personalized online music provider Pandora remained in a state of chaos Thursday as frantic workers struggled to find a song that 32-year-old Boston subscriber Dave Lipton would enjoy.

Pandora, which allows users to create virtual radio stations according to their individual tastes, confirmed its employees had spent most of the day rummaging desperately through the miles of shelves in the company’s massive 700,000-CD storage facility in search of a track to appease the increasingly fickle Lipton.

via Desperate Pandora Employees Scrambling To Find Song Area Man Likes | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source.

BACKTRACK VS WINDOWS

HAHAHA – in the same format as the iPhone4 vs EVO vid.

BACKTRACK VS WINDOWS

i need an iphone4 – iPhone4 vs HTC Evo

Funny as F*($ – as you may guess its possibly NSFW:

Thanks to Al for the video

hacking a computer – movie style

http://gizmodo.com/5559058/how-to-hack-a-computer-action-movie-edition

geeks from the nerds from the dorks

Which one are you ? or does it depend on the day ?

Geek vs. Nerd vs. Dork
Fictional Differences Expressed in Terms of Everyday Items

	GEEK	NERD	DORK
Chief Cell-Phone Concern	Does it have BlueTooth?	Does it play games?	Who would I call?
Mantra	Can we fix it? Yes we can!	The meek shall inherit the earth	Where’s the remote?
Dream Job(s)	Nasa/ILM/Google	Wizards of the Coast/Marvel Comics	‘American Idol’ Archivist
Uniform	Jeans and Ironic T	Penny loafers and Acne	Whatever Mom wants
Starter Apartment Furniture	Computer Desk	Kitchen Table for D&D	Starter Apartment?
Favorite Sport	Robot Wars	Captain Kirk Drinking Game	Handheld video poker
Playlists	Knight Rider/A-Team Mashups	Lord of the Rings/Star Wars Soundtracks	139.5 ‘Best Hits of Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond!!!’
Favorite Childhood Toy	Legos	Superhero doll action-figure	Own snot
Boner Worthy	API Documentation	Babylon 5 Marathon	Bra section in the JCPenny Catalogue