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The Home Theater SPot!: Dish or DirecTV A good update on the Dish vs. DirecTV HD wars. The net is that nothing much has changed. With Dish, get a 6000 and you see HD HBO and SHO. With DirecTV get a Zenith and you see HD HBO and this new HDNet. Personally I think I’d…

The Home Theater SPot!: D-VHS in 1080i reviewed at widescreen review For those Mits owners out there. Your Mitsubishi HDTV is upgradable with the Promise Module. The Promise Module will add an internal HDTV OTA turner, IEEE1394(i.Link, DTVLink) ports and digital audio output. The release data for the Promise Module will be made during Mits…

The Home Theater SPot!: HD DirecTV OTA HD = can this be done? Zenith DTV1080 seems like the best choice plus you need a three LNB antenna. THey say $1000 should take care of it. So, this looks like what I’ll be getting. NOw if only I can find that phased array antenna 🙂

HDNet Home Page. Another new site.

HDNut. Wow a whole site for high definition power users

AltaVista – World / Translate. Babelfish seems like the best translator around. Great for reading those Italian bicycle sites!

Quantex Zone – Vortex Control Panel XP. Someone who is writing drivers for a dead sound card. I love him!

Vortex of Sound. When Aureal went bankrupt, there was no place to get drivers, or so I thought. Here is a place!

Rage Underground -=- ATI Graphics Drivers and Support, from Rage 128 to Radeon. My server has an old Rage 128 GL card. Amazing that there is actually an entire website just on that chipset!

ASUS Software | Motherboard Sofeware download menu. For downloading the latest ASUS motherboard BIOS

FastTrak100 TX2 Downloads. Been having trouble losing stuff on my mirrored system. Upgrading now to the latest BIOS to see if this helps.

Sputnik, Inc.. Wow a cool starutp building software for WLANs that turns every client into a router.

Sale Clothing List. Good place to look for bike clothes. I’m on a screaming yellow high-visibility kick.

ITPRC – Wireless. wireless specific information also includes a good set of links on WLAN security. told me about netstumbler which is free unlike airopeek or nai sniffer

NetStumbler – Proudly Stumbling a Street Near You – EtherealA cool site that talks about how to have wireless LAN card specific sniffer. airopeek is one.

Windows Packet Capture LibraryA Packet Capture tools lives under it all.

Index of /distribution/win32 This is a packet sniffer. It is pretty clear, you need intrusion detection which is a rules based thing. Ethereal is just a sniffer without rules. Then there is LANguard which looks at your machines.

SecurityFocus Corporate Site. Another great site. Has tools as well.

Snort – The Open Source Network IDS : News. From seattlewireless.com, they recommend this tool for intrusion detection. Will try it now.

Disable Windows NT/W2K/XP Hidden Administrative Shares. It is amazing that NT/W2K and XP ship with these administrative shares. Fortunately, this page tells you how to close it off

AirPort Base Station Configurator. When you have WEP enabled on the Airport, for some reason the Freebase tool can’t see the access point via wired or unwired connection. However, this tool can see it for some reason and then you can reset the WEP off and everything works fine. Next problem I face is that…

Windows XP Shutdown Troubleshooter A great list of why XP won’t power down correctly.

Apple AirPort Base Station HardwareOK I screwed up when I put a WEP key on, so this shows where the reset button is on the AirPort. Amazingly the manual doesn’t appear to cover that.

FreeBase – Free Windows software to configure the Apple AirPort Base Station. Hey a VB applications to configure the AirPort

KarlNet Incorporated : Bridges, Routers, BRouters, Wireless LANs/WANs. An interesting company for Steve Bush. This company does the firmware for Orinoco and Apple Airport. They have a 486 processor in them.

Using Apple’s Airport Base Station with Windows. Got one from the Airwave guys and now am setting this up on aWindows network.

Nessus. Supposedly one of thge best port scanners. I just love Languard and how easy it is to use. Particularly for SMB vulnerabilities.

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Network Computing | Feature | Security | Vulnerability Assessment Scanners | Page 1 | January 8, 2001