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  1. No, people are trying to help by using things known as 'facts' No, you wrote garbage that illustrates only that you dont understand your own question. How about you concentrate on the answers given so far instead of being abusive? I dont understand why people get shirty when presented with an answer they dont understand. Look at it this way, if you understood the answer completely as soon as you read it, then you already knew the answer in the first place. The fact that you have to ask means you need to learn, and you do that by reading the information in the given answers, doing to studying and thinking.
  2. Here's my Aspire One with it's collection of stickers.
  3. I tried BT4 with my Aspire One (which has a Dell 1390 card in it now) and it does not autodetect the card. DT3 worked with the standard atheros card but I've not yet tried BT3 with the replacement 1390. I expect it's possible to activate the driver for it but I've not got it working yet, so no; out of the box = no 1390.
  4. Full drive encryption on linux is not great from what I've seen. I have my windows system fully encrypted with truecrypt but it cant do linux. I'd suggest installing a live ubuntu onto a 4gb key and making an encrypted store onto that. If you have autologon enabled, the you will only need one password to unlock the encrypted store.
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    Iphone help

    Another example of how hacking gets a bad name. You can afford an iphone but you are too tight to spend the occasional few bucks on an optional application for it? The iphone has lots of good apps, crackulous is not one of them and I'd expect it will turn trojan before too long.
  6. Bloody hell Sparda, nice catch !! :o
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    Lowlevel format HD

    Um... no? That would not be an LLF by any definition.
  8. http://getsongbird.com/ It looks just like iTunes except it wont sync to my iphone and it seems not to handle podcasts. I understand why there's a need for a linux version of itunes, but linux has good media players already. I use a mac and a windows pc for itunes because I have an iphone and an appleTV. I use a linux laptop. I'd use a linux version of itunes, but only if it was compatible with my existing hardware.
  9. I had a laptop setup once that had good loud speakers, I had it poll my email account and use text-to-speech to announce when an email arrives, so it would speak to me "New email for Mat arrived, from viagraSalesman01. Message subject is: Get some now." or whatever it may be. This would go off whenever the mail arrived and was quite fun for a while.
  10. you could add something to the domain login script to take the audit, but then you would need to complete a login to get the info. MS security baseline tool will audit the powered up systems for you too. System internals psinfo will pull decent information from powered up computers too. The problem may come with getting the serial number as the method used to retrieve it may be vendor specific.
  11. Yeah, the device Wes has at the start of that show is a Nintendo DS.
  12. That depends on the size of your pocket. Seriously though, you asked about a "mini or pocket pc" you didnt actually say that you wanted to put the thing in a pocket. If you need something that kind of size, consider the nokia 810 or the Fujutsu Lifebook U810
  13. Drobo is good but very expensive for what you get, especially considering that the base model has no LAN port so it's not really a NAS but an external drive. HP Media Smart unit looks nice, but is actually a piece of crap. Go and look into the specs, it runs Windows Home Server which is 'very reliable' and it's not actually a RAID stored device, so your data is constantly at risk. It will copy data that you state as being important onto another drive in the unit though, HP says that this is better than RAID. HP Media vault that you mention, I've no idea, never seen it, is this the precursor to the Media Smart? OpenFiler: over complicated and you have to pay for the instruction manua. Screw that. FreeNAS: awsome, do it. I'm building a freenas box at the moment, got everything ready now, just need to go and buy 4 x 1TB hard drives and I'm good to go.
  14. I've decrypted it for you, here's the decrypted version of it: "Go ask the owner for the password" Simple.
  15. I guess that depends your perspective. To me, yes it's a problem. There are far better ways to deal with this than blackhat techniques.
  16. The problem is that you want to deal with an abuse of the network, by abusing the network; that's just going to fail. If the guy is not following the known rules, then fire him. I'm making the guess that this is an employment situation, the fix is to get rid of him. If that is simply not an option then you will need to install kit that's capable of managing the staff more effectively, as has already been mentioned. I suggest a smoothwall installed on an old computer, that should do nicely.
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    Encryption

    The documentation for truecrypt is very good, easily some of the best I've seen in an open source project. While the answer to your question is most certainly in there, it's still ok for you to ask here. Now that an answer has been given though, I'd still recommend reading the truecrypt docs in full - you may well find that it does something that you didnt know about that may offer the functionality you need (and then some)
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    Acer Aspire One

    The joys of search :) http://hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=10844 There's a driver available that can be added to the USB drive, which with the addition of an edit to the boot options, will give the correct screen res on BT3.
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    Mail Server

    I run my own mail server using Zimbra. It works great and I recommend it to anyone with the 'control freak sysadmin' gene. :) Sure, there's downsides to it, but it gives me much more than a hotmail account would, and it's mine etc etc.
  20. No, the AAO and pretty much any recent computer will boot to any USB2 thumb drive. I've a few USB1 drives and they never work, but 2.0 is fine.
  21. Mine arrived yesterday and they look great, looking forward to getting some time to actually read them! Constructive criticism would be the image size though, there seems to be a whitespace border of about 4cm all around the page, it feels a little too much and if it was less, the image could be larger, and therefore easier to read. That's not a big deal, and it's probably just me getting old and needing glasses! but I thought I'd mention it.
  22. The mac address cannot be used for a security function because it's not a secure value. Saying that does not matter and going ahead and using it anyway is negligent. As suggested about RADIUS will do for you in a correct and secure way, what you think MAC filtering is doing for you now.
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    USB Thumbscrew

    Each of these methods are quite good, but ultimately they wont stop someone who actually want to get at your computer. It's the work of a moment to get a usb thumbdrive that will boot linux. With that drive connected to your computer, the attacker has your data, end of story. You have to ask the question, 'why am I doing this?' If you are putting this protection mechanism on your computer to make it look cool and like something out of the movies, then that's great; but if you actually want it to perform a role of protection, then its a waste of time. Use Truecrypt. It works, it's proven and it's simple. I dont say this to disparage anyone, or to insult anyone, I say it because it's true.
  24. Sorry, I dont use dual boot on any of my computers, so other than general advice, I couldnt help with any specifics.
  25. Build a USB as per the instructions and the read this post to install a new video driver onto the USB to give you the correct resolution http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtop...?f=5&t=2019
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