Create Synchronicity – portable app nad sync tool
It's portable, it syncs, it can be scheduled, it's FOSS.
it's cool, but it's windows only.
Lynis, auditing tool for *nix
Lynis is a really cool script for checking your machine for vulns. I use it on every server I deploy. It's not a one stop shop for security, but it does give a little piece of mind that you've not overlooked anything.
Remotely enable terminal servces on a win5x or 6x box
- connect remote registry
- browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server.
- change fDenyTSConnections to 0
- reboot remote machine with shutdown -r -t 00 -m \\[computername]
- connect: mstsc /{admin or console} /v:[computername]
Really nice ripping guide for windows. All rippers are not created equal!
Did you know that all CD ripping software was not created equal? Or that DVD drives were not made to make bit for bit copies of audio cd's? Seriously. Try rippingthe same track twice with your software and see if the two PCM files have the same CRC... You may be suprised.
Anyroad, I happened over a really good ripping/burning guide for windoze boxen. it's at xs.vc, but they don't link to it from the front page (i think it's part of the waffles community docs). You can see what's on the site with google though.
PuTTY connection manager makes many PuTTY’s easier (easylife)
OK, OK, everyone is going mad for this.
Anyone that works with mutliple putty windows will appreciate it.
Software for windows
I agree with Luke Maciak's post about windows software. I use 90 % of the stuff he recommends for new installs, but he did open my eyes to a couple of cool new bits of software. This is his list:
Web Browser: Firefox
Text Editor: Vim
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Foobar 2000
IM: Pidgin
Launcher Program: Launchy
Compression: WinRar
SSH + SCP: SSH Secure Shell Client
LaTex IDE: TeXnicCenter
Java IDE: Eclipse
Perl/Python/PHP IDE: Komodo Edit
Twitter Client: Snitter
Screen Shot App: Cropper
IRC Client: Xchat
POSIX Compliant Shell on Windows: Cygwin
Calculator: Windows Power Calculator
Remote Assistance Tool: CrossLoop
Misc: Tclock2
The new ones to me are Launchy, which is amazing. Komodo edit, which looks really good, and CrossLoop, which i havn't tried yet, but looks really useful. I have to admit that i don't use latex, so i don't know about TeXnicCenter, but pretty much everthing else i use, with a couple of exceptions:
Instead of Foobar 2000 I settled on mediamonkey because of it's advanced tagging functionality (it can download art and racknames from amazon, then autotag your tunes.) as well as talking to y ipod too.
At the moment i am using Miranda IM for IRC and IM, as it does everything, & it's, main window can be onfigured to autoscale, have no title or status bar, and just contain ontacts, so it uses virtually no real estate.
I use PuTTY and WinSCP for ssh & scp, instead of SSH Secure Shell Client.
I would also add to the list:
FileZilla for ftp (although i tend to use FireFTP firefox plugin more now),
AstroGrep for windows grepping,
Beyond Compare (commercial) for visual diffing
WireShark for network sniffing
Thunderbird for email (with lightning add in for calendar)
PStools for remote admin stuff.
Avast for free antivirus, although clamwin si supposed to be really good now.
Comodo firewall
innotek virtualbox for virtual machines
imageburn for writing iso's to disk
poweriso (commercial) for making them, and mounting them (like daemon tools, but far better, and no spyware)
ColorPic for web design stuff, along with
JR Screen Ruler
Software analasys tools
Idefence labs have some nice GPL tools for monitoring what software gets up to on the windows platform.
SysAnalyzer is an automated malcode run time analysis application that monitors various aspects of system and process states.
The Malcode Analyst Pack contains a series of utilities that were found to be necessary tools while doing rapid malcode analysis:
| • ShellExt | - 4 explorer shell extensions |
| • socketTool | - manual TCP Client for probing functionality. |
| • MailPot | - mail server capture pot |
| • fakeDNS | - spoofs dns responses to controlled ip's |
| • sniff_hit | - HTTP, IRC, and DNS sniffer |
| • sclog | - Shellcode research and analysis application |
| • IDCDumpFix | - aids in quick RE of packed applications |
| • Shellcode2Exe | - embeds multiple shellcode formats in exe husk |
| • GdiProcs | - detect hidden processes |
HookExplorer is a small utility designed to scan a target
process and identify any user land hooks that may be installed
by unknown code.
Multipot is a emulation based honeypot designed to capture malicious
code which spreads through various exploits across the net. Design
specifications for this project mandated that the captures be done in
such a way so that the host machine would require only minimal
supervision and would not itself risk getting infected. Multipot was
designed to emulate exploitable services to safely collect malicious
code.
ePoS systems for restaurants
I'm really liking the look of point of success, it is cheap, and seems to have all the needed functions. I'm also interested in wasp quickstore and POSPizza.
Wasp, although interesting seems to be aimed at resellers with checkouts. I am going to look at the other two.
Pricing:
POSPizza, $375USD, then $125USD per screen thereafter
Point of Success:$599USD then $200USD per screen thereafter.
Database:
Point of success seems to run on sybase's iAnywhrere Advantage Database server, for which there appears to be a free ODBC driver. POSPizza seems to run on it's own flat file database structure, and although POSPizza seems to have better reporting out of the box, i suspect that it will be easier to provide programatic access to point of success.
Look and Feel:
POSPizza is definately a terminal app for managing deliveries that has had a dine in section added at a later date. It is semi touch screen friendly, but looks like you will need a keyboard to do all but the most basic of tasks.
Point of success on the other hand is much more touch screen friendly. It has been designed from the ground up with dine in and takeaway in mind, and seems to mix both tasks into the same interface well.
I think i am settled on Point of success..
primemark has some good prices on hardware.
Cpanel & WHM Ports
Inbound ports
TCP
20 FTP
21 FTP
22 SSH
25 SMTP
26 SMTP
53 DNS
80 HTTP
110 POP3
143 IMAP4
443 HTTPS
465 SMTP (TLS/SSL)
993 IMAP4 (SSL)
995 POP3 (SSL)
2082 CPANEL
2083 CPANEL (SSL)
2086 WHM (Web Host Manager)
2087 WHM (SSL)
2095 WEBMAIL
2096 WEBMAIL (SSL)
3306 MYSQL (ONLY IF YOU WANT TO ALLOW INCOMING MYSQL CONNECTIONS)
6666 - CHAT
UDP
21 FTP
53 DNS
465 SMTP (TLS/SSL)
Outbound ports
TCP
20 FTP
21 FTP
25 SMTP
26 SMTP
37 RDATE
43 WHOIS
53 DNS
80 HTTP
113 IDNET
465 SMTP (TLS/SSL)
873 RSYNC
2089 CPANEL LICENSE
3306 MYSQL (ONLY IF YOU NEED TO CONNECT TO REMOTE MYSQL SERVER)
UDP
21 FTP
53 DNS
465 SMTP (TLS/SSL)
873 RSYNC
freeware icon editor
I needed to make some icons recently. I used to use microangelo, but we don't have a license for that here, so i found IcoFX which seems to do the tick nicely!