Author Archives: samurai

About samurai

I like computers... A lot. So I tend to spend a lot of time doing varied things with them. Often you'll find me playing with Python or PHP, fighting with operating systems, ranting about some off-the-wall concept, or preparing for zombies.

crackIt: aircrack-ng automated

Posted on November 15, 2008 by samurai

I was playing around with my wireless network early today and realized I didn’t have the key written down near by where I was working. Rather than expending the effort of getting up and moving, I decided I’d just crack … Continue reading →

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Hackers For Charity

Posted on November 1, 2008 by samurai

In one of my recent HFC emails, I read the following: “This month, I thought that it would be fun to partner up with Hackers for Charity in order to raise money for the people of Uganda. The Academy has … Continue reading →

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Google’s ‘Chrome’ released…

Posted on September 3, 2008 by samurai

Google has recently released it’s browser ‘Chrome‘ for beta testing. After playing around with it a bit, I liked the shiny look of the interface, but it just doesn’t stack up to Firefox, yet. I do worry about the implications … Continue reading →

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Ion3 Window Manager

Posted on August 25, 2008 by samurai

Those of you who know me, know I hate window managers and GUI in general under linux. After using nothing but screen for ages and testing a window manager here and there, I finally found a window manager I liked: … Continue reading →

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Windows XP as a router…

Posted on August 24, 2008 by samurai

I’ve recently working in an environment where only a wireless network connection was available, however; 2 of my 3 machines did not support wireless internet. After dealing with not having those machines offline for a while, I finally decided to … Continue reading →

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Reading Rainbow: Episode 12

Posted on August 24, 2008 by samurai

While working on my web-spider class for an application I was developing, I did some searching for efficiency of spidering algorithms. I came across this comparison of the depth-first versus breadth-first search algorithms. http://www.leekillough.com/trapopt.html Using a combination of Javascript and … Continue reading →

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