12 April, 2007 at 7:47 pm
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Security, Wi-Fi
It is possible to get Kismet to run on Windows without using a drone. How? Well first (and this is probably the killer) you need to have an AirPcap USB adapter and then you need to download Kismet for Windows.
What is AirPcap?
If you need to capture 802.11b/g packets in Windows, then AirPcap is your answer. Made by the guys who brought you WinPcap and Wireshark, AirPcap enables you to capture raw Wi-Fi packets in Windows. AirPcap fully integrates into Wireshark, giving you a seamless packet capture experience. Read More AirPcap…
Kismet for Windows is available from the CACE Tech website. At present, it only works with AirPcap and Kismet drones.
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10 April, 2007 at 3:19 pm
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Networking, Operating Systems
We have a small family of PowerVault 715N’s here at Crownhill. They’re lovely boxes, but reinstalling the OS on them is something of a black art
Admittedly it’s a long time since I ran a reinstall, but from memory, it must be done with a Windows 2000 client: XP just plain refused to work.
Dell’s article should cover everything you need to know.
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9 April, 2007 at 3:21 pm
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Business
One of my biggest issues with LinkedIn is that it’s only possible to give recommendations to people you’ve worked with in a ‘job’ capacity. It’s not possible to recommend a tutor, or a fellow student whom you’ve worked with during your Education. As someone who’s only recently started their career, I haven’t worked with many people in my Job capacity, making it hard to request and give Recommendations based on my job alone. With this in mind, I recently asked if LinkedIn will implement Education recommendations.
Here’s their response:
We do not do recommendations for education only for positions. I
think it would be a great idea to have this feature added. I will pass
along the suggestion.
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5 April, 2007 at 9:47 am
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Business
I’m about to see if/how I can integrate our Sage accounting and stock system into our existing e-commerce database. The idea is to reduce the duplication of information as, at present, all orders are re-typed into Sage even though a fair bit of the data already exists in the database. How very inefficient!
Wish me luck
Update: Well that was a false start. I was told Sage had a 45-day trial. It doesn’t, so I’ll have to wait for a licence code. D’oh!
Update (2007-05-01):Â Seems Sage Instant Accounts Plus can’t use MySQL, so I’ll have to look into e-mailing the order details in CSV format as an attachment. One for the back-burner! 
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3 April, 2007 at 12:27 pm
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Time Saving
Sometimes, I just want to quickly resize some images before sharing them over IM or via e-mail…
I’ve found that Microsoft’s Image Resizer is fantastic for quick photo resizing. Of course, I could do it in Fireworks and retain the quality but to do more than 3 images it becomes a waste of my time. And I’m all about utilising my time effectively
Get the Image Resizer Power Toy
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