Archive for November, 2005

Pure Blonde: From the CUB Development Labs

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

Normally I am not a fan of beers from big multinationals such as Carlton United breweries, but in this case I intend to make an exception. this beer claims to have less sugar than normal beer. This for me personally is probably a good thing, rapidly approaching the time in my life where things [...]

Netblock owner search

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

Ever had that domain that has no reverse DNS entry? Well you can at least get an idea about who owns it by visiting one of the NIC’s below to attempt to determine the owner of the netblock that IP is related to:
http://www.apnic.net - Asia Pacific NIC
http://www.ripe.net - Europe NIC
http://www.arin.net - American NIC

Distronic as found on the new Merc S class

Friday, November 4th, 2005

I have to say while there are nay sayers out there who say that people should do the driving and these gadgets are bad, I personally would love it. Why? It means that I can use cruise and not get caught by speed camera’s and when the muppet in front of me is going slowly [...]

Hitting up Canberra.

Friday, November 4th, 2005

My mate Sean Burford (http://www.ultri.cx) is getting married, so it looks like I will be hitting up Canberra behaving in a seditious manner for his bucks night and wedding. Lets hope the new anti-terror laws are not in effect until after then, my face and general attitude are probably enough to get me locked up [...]

Sony - The company that installs a rootkit onto your PC.

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

Mark’s Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far
Sony have gone too far this time. Its just silly for a company to install a rootkit, a buggy root kit that could potentially lead to a compromise in your systems security. Read all about it, and how to remove/avoid it at the link [...]